action.foe.org - 1/30/2009
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Senators try to put up-to-$50-bln nuclear bailout in stimulus January 28, 2009 For Immediate Release Contact: Nick Berning, 202-222-0748 Senate Attempts to Waste up to $50 Billion in Stimulus Funds on Preemptive Bailout for Nuclear Industry Friends of the Earth slams proposed bailout, which ...
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Senate Appropriators Add $50 Billion Nuclear Waste To Recovery Plan
Wonk Room —
... Unlike renewable energy and energy efficiency technology, investments in the nuclear industry generate few jobs or economic growth. The nuclear industry has developed through massive federal subsidization from research to deployment over decades. Such a massive expenditure of nuclear pork has no place in the economic recovery bill. Brent Blackwelder of Friends of the Earth, who discovered the nuclear pork, called the appropriations “ ...
Joseph Romm: Can Obama stop the nuclear bomb in the Senate stimulus plan?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Unlike renewable energy and energy efficiency technology, investments in the nuclear industry generate few jobs or economic growth. The nuclear industry has developed through massive federal subsidization from research to deployment over decades. Such a massive expenditure of nuclear pork has no place in the economic recovery bill. Brent Blackwelder of Friends of the Earth, who discovered the nuclear pork, called the appropriations " ...
Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte: Keep the Stimulus Package Green, and Save Old Forests
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... To any intelligent person, the answer's obvious -- but this isn't a person we're talking about here. It's the US government. Nuclear energy is incredibly expensive, and has big, still unsolved, problems related to disposal of its radioactive wastes. And clean coal technology is nowhere close to existing. Meanwhile, solar, wind and geothermal energy technologies have shown great promise to deliver cheap, clean energy. So, why is the government investing potentially as much as $50 billion in loans toward the nuclear power industry, while it is investing only half of that ...
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action.foe.org 2/12/2009 — Massive Nuclear Bailout Removed from Stimulus February 12, 2009 For Immediate Release Contact: Nick Berning, 202-222-0748 Ben Schreiber, 202-222-0752 Loan guarantees coveted by nuclear industry’s lobbyists removed in conference committee Washington, ...
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Governor has friends who also have friends -
chicagotribune.com 12/16/2008 — In the Continuing Saga of Gov. Dead Meat, there's a new connection among friends along the Chicago Way. And one such fellow who will be involved in the governor's impeachment to come is the soon-to-be Illinois Senate president, John Cullerton ...
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EARTH HOUR 2009: Washington, DC, To Go Dark For Earth Hour (VIDEO)
huffingtonpost.com 3/6/2009 — WASHINGTON, DC, March 4, 2009 - World Wildlife Fund announced today that the District of Columbia has signed on to be an official flagship city for Earth Hour 2009 , a global climate change event in which tens of millions of citizens, businesses and government leaders from all corners of the ...
Earth-lover Gore doesn't love 'Earth Hour'
washingtonexaminer.com 3/30/2009 — Do as I say, not as I do ?
Do as I say, not as I do? Seems like former Vice-President Al Gore may be embracing that motto as evidenced Saturday night by his failure to turn off the lights of his Nashville home for “Earth Hour.” ...
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