Fw: [CMEP] ACTION: Stop Environmentally Irresponsible Energy Bill!

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From: " ph Malherek " <jmalherek@...>

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Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 1:41 PM

Subject: [CMEP] ACTION: Stop Environmentally Irresponsible Energy Bill!

> *** Apologies for cross posting ***

> !!! A C T I O N A L E R T !!!

>

> March 28, 2003

>

> Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are scheduled to

> vote

> April 1st on Rep. Joe Barton's (R-Tex.) Energy Policy Act of 2003.

>

> SEND A FREE FAX to committee members through Public Citizen's website:

> http://www.citizen.org/fax/background.cfm?ID=141 & source=5

>

> This harmful bill repeals vital electricity consumer protections

> allowing for the expansion of deregulation and more Enron style

> schemes.

> The bill also encourages nuclear irresponsibility by offering public

> funds to develop new reactors, promoting nuclear waste reprocessing,

> and

> extending liability protections for nuclear plant operators. This

> legislation does virtually nothing to decrease oil consumption in this

> country and promote renewable energies.

>

> For more information about the bill's risky and expensive nuclear

> provisions: http://www.citizen.org/documents/nucleartitlefactsheet.pdf

>

>

> For more information on the electricity consumer protections that this

> bill would repeal: http://www.citizen.org/documents/ACF145.pdf

>

> View the entire bill here:

> http://energycommerce.house.gov/108/markups/03192003/print.pdf

>

> Find list of House Energy and Commerce Committee Members at

> http://energycommerce.house.gov/108/members/members.htm

>

> TAKE ACTION!

>

> If your representative is a member of the Energy and Commerce

> Committee, ask them to object to this anti-consumer, anti-environment

> bill. Urge them to support the following amendments.

>

> * VOTE YES! on Rep. Ed Markey's (D-Mass.) amendment to cancel the

> Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative. As

> currently drafted, the bill provides $399 million over the next four

> years to fund this new DOE program, which aims to deploy commercial

> nuclear fuel reprocessing technologies by 2015. Expensive

> reprocessing

> technologies pose health, safety, and proliferation risks.

>

> * VOTE YES! on Rep. Ed Markey's dirty bomb prevention amendment. This

> amendment would establish a task force to make recommendations on how

> to

> better safeguard against the theft, loss and diversion of radioactive

> sealed sources that could be used as " dirty bombs. "

>

> CALL the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be

> transferred to the office of your Representative.

>

> SEND A FREE FAX through Public Citizen's website:

> http://www.citizen.org/fax/background.cfm?ID=141 & source=5

>

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