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The price of nuclear power?
Four votes.
Sens. Boxer, Dayton, Feingold, and Harkin, all supporters of the Climate Stewardship Act in the last Congress, voted against the legislation this afternoon when Sens. McCain and Lieberman offered it as an amendment to the energy bill. The amendment included new subsidies for the construction of nuclear power plants -- which Sen. Boxer, at least, has publicly opposed.
The amendment was defeated 38-60, a decline in support from the better-than-expected 43 votes it garnered in 2003.
Ana Unruh Cohen is the director of environmental policy at the Center for American Progress and a frequent Grist blogger.
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amazingdrx Posted 10:50 pm
22 Jun 2005
Great job Russ!
It's good to see that our Wisconsin Sen. Feingold did not compromise this time!
Nuclear power is a financial and eco disaster that should become a reminder of corporate/government corruption in the future.
Areas like Hanford, Rocky Flats, Yucca Mountain, Savanah River, oakridge, Chernobyl... and on and on monuments to the criminal negligence created by bottomlimne, short term corporate greed and the faithbased gullibility of bushco inc. voters.
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