--- On Wed, 5/25/11, Nuclear Information and Resource Service
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SENATE ENERGY COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER "CLEAN ENERGY" BANK BILL
TOMORROW--MAY 26, 2011
BANK WOULD ENABLE UNLIMITED TAXPAYER FUNDING OF NEW NUCLEAR REACTOR
CONSTRUCTION
ACT NOW TO BLOCK "CEDA"!
May 25, 2011
Dear friends,
The Senate Energy Committee is scheduled to consider tomorrow--May 26,
2011--a bill establishing a new "clean energy" bank called the Clean Energy
Development Administration (CEDA).
Unfortunately, this "clean energy" bank is anything but a source for
funding genuinely clean energy. In fact, both new nuclear reactors and certain
coal projects would be eligible for unlimited taxpayer backed loans if this
bank were to be realized.
Take action now: tell your Senators to reject CEDA unless nuclear power
and coal are removed.
A press release from our friends at Union of Concerned Scientists with
more background on CEDA is here.
Please act quickly and tell your Senators--especially if they are on
the Energy Committee (members listed below)--to reject CEDA as currently
written. There is nothing "clean" about nuclear power, as a glance at any photo
of Fukushima should make clear. Unless nuclear power and dirty coal are taken
out of the CEDA program, it should be defeated.
If one of your Senators is on the Energy Committee (members listed
below), please also call him/her today and urge him/her to reject CEDA unless
nuclear and coal are removed from the program. Senate switchboard: 202-224-3121.
In other news, today NIRS hand-delivered to members of the House and
Senate Appropriations Committees a letter signed by more than 180 organizations
and small businesses urging an end to the existing nuclear loan program. Thanks
to everyone who signed this letter! The letter and accompanying press release
are available on the front page of NIRS website, www.nirs.org.
Thanks for all you do,
Michael Mariotte
Executive Director
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
[email protected]
www.nirs.org
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Senate Energy Committee
Democrats:
Chairman Jeff Bingaman (NM)
Ron Wyden (OR)
Tim Johnson (SD)
Mary L. Landrieu (LA)
Maria Cantwell (WA)
Bernard Sanders (I) (VT)
Debbie Stabenow (MI)
Mark Udall (CO)
Jeanne Shaheen (NH)
Al Franken (MN)
Joe Manchin (WV)
Christopher A. Coons (DE)
Republicans:
Lisa Murkowski (AK)
John Barrasso (WY)
James E. Risch (ID)
Mike Lee (UT)
Rand Paul (KY)
Daniel Coats (IN)
Rob Portman (OH)
John Hoeven (ND)
Dean Heller (NV)
Bob Corker (TN)
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