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TELL PRESIDENT OBAMA: DON'T LET THE SENATE CLIMATE BILL GET HIJACKED BY
THE NUCLEAR POWER INDUSTRY!
June 30, 2009

Dear Friends,

Now that the House has finished its version of the climate bill, it's time
to turn our attention back to the Senate-and to the White House.

President Obama issued a statement praising passage of the House bill that
said, in part, "The energy bill that passed the House will finally create
a set of incentives that will spark a clean energy transformation in our
economy. It will spur the development of low carbon sources of energy -
everything from wind, solar, and geothermal power to safer nuclear energy and
cleaner coal."

But there was nothing in the bill that would make nuclear power any
"safer," and "clean coal" remains an oxymoron.

*We need to tell President Obama not to let the climate bill get hijacked
by the nuclear power and coal industries. _You can do so here_
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.

*Please pass this Alert on to your friends and colleagues, post it
everywhere you can, spread the word. And _please make a small contribution so
we
can expand this campaign and spread the word farther too!_
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Background
The Senate Energy Committee already has passed an absolutely unacceptable
energy bill, one that allows a nine-member unelected Board to give
unlimited taxpayer loan guarantees for new reactor construction and "clean
coal"
plants, supports nuclear as a "clean and secure domestic energy for the US,"
and provides new support for dangerous, proliferation-prone reprocessing
technologies.

The game plan in the Senate appears to be this: Sen. Barbara Boxer's
Environment and Public Works Committee will soon begin public work on their
version of the cap-and-trade climate legislation. The Senate energy bill, or a
version of it, will be incorporated into the climate bill and brought to
the floor for a vote.

We need to make sure that the nuclear subsidies in the Senate energy bill
do not become part of the Senate climate bill and that additional
subsidies for nuclear power are not added. And a good first step (and there
will be
many more steps in the near futureā€¦) is to tell President Obama to get
this outrageous support for the nuclear industry out of the climate bill.

We need to explain, simply and firmly, that we will oppose any climate
bill that provides more taxpayer subsidies for nuclear power or that supports
reprocessing (even before Obama's own waste commission has even been
formed to begin its re-evaluation of radioactive waste policy!).

The House climate bill must be strengthened in the Senate, not become
worse. President Obama wants a climate bill. That's a vast improvement over his
predecessor. But he needs to act so that the final climate bill is one
that environmentalists and clean energy advocates can support, not one we
have to end up defeating.
_*Please write President Obama here._
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*_Please contribute to this campaign here. _
(http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3xfPJJU2pDY8wcXOqwG2W4ndG\
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industry is spending millions to get its way in Congress this session. Every
small contribution helps us reach more people and counter their actions!
Thanks for all you do!
Michael Mariotte
Executive Director
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
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