Republicans move to delay climate bill progress

Source: Reuters

By Richard Cowan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - All seven Republicans on the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee plan to boycott next week's work session on a climate-change bill, an aide said on Saturday, in a move aimed at thwarting Democratic efforts to advance the controversial legislation quickly.

"Republicans will be forced not to show up" at Tuesday's work session, said Matt Dempsey, a spokesman for Republican senators on the environment panel.

Under committee rules, at least two Republicans are needed for Chairwoman Barbara Boxer to hold the work sessions that would give senators an opportunity to amend the controversial legislation and then vote to approve it in the panel, which is controlled by President Barack Obama's fellow Democrats. snip

Most Republicans and some moderate Democrats in the Senate have criticized the emissions-reduction target of the Kerry-Boxer bill. Kerry already has begun talking to other senators about significant changes to his bill, including expanding U.S. nuclear power generation.

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And how much are we going to subsidize the nuke industry this time, including their waste storage?

The repugs are using their usual, "This is too rushed" tactic. :puke:

wind mills can we put up for that?

I do not trust nuclear energy in the hands of the corporations. We just can't trust them.

That's exactly the point.

Wind power is a good investment.

put the spent shit?

The once through uranium fuel cycle that the United States currently uses isn't optimal for reducing nuclear waste, but implementing a new fuel cycle would require rebuilding the nuclear industry from the ground up.

Investing in the wind industry and simultaneously looking at ways to store large amounts of energy (on the order of terawatt-hours) is probably the fastest and most cost effective way to reduce CO2 emissions at this point.

The article envisiaged a huge, national installation of photovoltaics as the technology for climate protection. I think wind power would make more sense.

I think that time shifting of electrical loads makes loads of sense.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/08/AR2008030802595.html

Unfortunately the Chinese have just said screw it to any waste disposal plans.

:eyes:

Republicans move to delay bowel movements... Then aborts idea way too late....film and smear campaign at eleven....

People need to face the fact that we have some very tough, life-or-death choices to make if we want to save civilization. Compared to the BILLIONS who will die if we do nothing, the "bad" parts of this bill are nothing.

Because global climate change and the accompanying misery it will bring doesn't care what state or region of the world you live in.

GLOBAL warming means we all get hammered by what's coming if we don't do something soon.

Fuck them! Renewables and Nuclear YES, Coal and Natural Gas NO!