Updated: US Senators: More Coal, Oil and Nukes Are "Solution" for Global Warming
by Mike King on Dec.13, 2009, under Sustainable News
The once-demonized nuclear industry got its biggest boost in years Thursday.
A bipartisan coalition of US senators put forward a "framework" for climate legislation that aims to dramatically increase off-shore oil drilling, ensure a "future for coal" and, above all, ramp up subsidies for the financially risky nuclear power industry. The announcement was timed, in part, to send a signal to negotiators at the climate conference in Copenhagen that the US Senate is supposedly serious about climate reform.
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