Environmentalists Dislike Energy Bill

Now this headline is an understatement. No mention of how this "plan" was created in secret behind closed doors by enron and other big corporations. No mention of the continued refusal to release the energy papers and the theories of why they are stonewalling them. Hopefully, this thing can be killed this year. I doubt they'd dare to bring it up next year and maybe the Democrats can have a fair election in time to drive a stake through it once and for all. I can dream can't I.


Wed Nov 5, 3:04 AM ET


By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The impasse over an energy bill is music to the ears of Anna Aurilio of the environmental group USPIRG and to the Sierra Club (news - web sites)'s Debbie Boger.



David Alberswerth of the Wilderness Society is rooting just as hard for the energy gridlock to continue.


As lawmakers face off in Congress over the details of a national energy blueprint — the first in 10 years — environmentalists are in wide agreement on one thing: They don't like the bill that is emerging.


"There's little in the bill for the conservation community," says Alberswerth, a land use specialist for the Wilderness Society. "We should be moving in an entirely different direction."


Adds Aurilo, USPIRG's legislative director, "This bill is a disaster any way you cut it. There's nothing good to be said about it. And it's getting worse."


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