Is the Senate Climate Bill Heading for a Nuclear Accident?
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) The long-awaited Senate Climate Bill, co-sponsored by Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and pushed hard by President Obama, is expected to be introduced on Monday, April 26–assuming the senators working on the legislation can find a compromise that can lower transportation greenhouse emissions without stampeding the 60 votes needed to pass the bill. But transportation isn’t the only controversial issue in the bill. Another is nuclear energy, and the promise of as much as $54 billion in government loan guarantees to revitalize and expand the U.S. nuclear industry. Ironically, April 26, the day the bill with all of those nuclear loan guarantees is supposed to begin its march toward passage, is also the anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident in Ukraine–the poster event for the global anti-nuke move
