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| Written by Gerald L. Rudolph | |||||||
| Thursday, 28 February 2008 | |||||||
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We thought the State Legislators had agreed to not redefining renewable energy to include nuclear. Redefining renewables to include nuclear energy might allow funds intended to support renewables like solar, wind, and geothermal energy to be used to increase nuclear power funding. Read about previous effort on S360. Note from Ann Timberlake on recent events: After House compromise, bill went to Senate and Sen Ryberg apparently pushed through a Senate motion to ‘non-concur’ meaning that Senate opted to not accept the House language which removed nuclear as a renewable – even though utility lobbyists were pushing acceptance of the compromise. This may have been more about the Senate not wanting to agree with the House, and it all happened very quickly……but it now goes back to the House next Tuesday and we need folks to continue to urge house members to stick with the compromise language. If House sticks to its version, the bill will go to conference committee and we understand that the senate appointees will be friendly to our position (not that we love this bill, but at least it keeps nuclear removed from renewables) so we have a good chance of getting the compromise out of the conference committee. You can help Ann and others to improve our environment by joining them each Tuesday to lobby the state house. More information can be found at http://www.conservationvotersofsc.org/
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