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• Winning Some, Losing Some

  This is the winning one: The Iowa Senate approved a bill that would allow an Iowa energy company to raise fees to pay for a study on the feasibility of building a nuclear power plant in the state. The bill is a stepping stone in what lawmakers called a scramble to turn to carbon-neutral energy sources. In other words, Iowa wants to have a plant if a plant makes sense there. It won handily, too: The... Posted Mar 11 2010, 04:40 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: study, Nuclear, senate, bill, construction, plant, state, iowa

• Without You: Climate Change Bill Bypasses GOP

  We can’t really call yesterday’s passage of the Kerry-Boxer climate change bill through the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee tainted, because the bill itself is almost pristine. No amendments were added to it, nothing was removed. But the process lacked a – certain – something: The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee reported out a climate change bill on Thursday despite a boycott... Posted Nov 06 2009, 01:29 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: legislation, debate, bill, congress, climate, boxer, kerry, Climate Change

• President Obama at MIT

  President Barack Obama’s energy speech at MIT could have focused a bit more on nuclear energy. But he intended to cover a lot of bases and clearly did that. He noted the green jobs created by the stimulus bill, he called for bipartisanship in crafting the climate change bill in the Senate, he paid appropriate homage to the innovation and accomplishments of schools like MIT. So the actual energy portion... Posted Oct 23 2009, 05:36 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: speech, obama, politics, bill, policy, obama administration, energy, MIT

• Resources And Streamlining in the Senate

  The bipartisan push for a nuclear title in the Senate’s climate change bill picked up considerably today: Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) is helping to negotiate a nuclear energy amendment that could help bring aboard swing votes who support the industry. Architects and backers of the nuclear effort include Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who are seeking more... Posted Oct 15 2009, 04:45 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: legislation, senate, bill, climate, Climate Change, graham, mccain, carper, lieberman

• The Waxman-Markey Bill Faces Congress

  Today sees the vote in the House on the Clean Energy and Security Act, aka Waxman-Markey aka the climate change bill, likely to be a very near thing on a very tight vote margin. As you might imagine, this is last ditch time for those who want the bill and those who don’t. Greenpeace says no : Since the Waxman-Markey bill left the Energy and Commerce committee, yet another fleet of industry lobbyists... Posted Jun 26 2009, 03:35 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: bill, congress, waxman-markey