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• A Cornucopia of Nuclear Notes

  One of the themes – or is that memes – we’ve been following here is the growing support for nuclear energy among Congressional Democrats. We might be expected to consider nuclear energy a post-partisan issue – that is, one where Republicans and Democrats more-or-less agree on its value generally if not always in detail – but this reality is beginning to penetrate the wider media world. Consider this... Posted Dec 01 2009, 03:51 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Politics and Nuclear Power, NEI, politics, Nuclear, republicans, democrats, congress, partisan

• 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

• The Kerry-Boxer Hearings: Day 3

  And day last. We’re going to focus today on John Rowe, Exelon CEO. As we said over the last two days, the focus of the hearings has been general in nature, alighting on nuclear energy and other energy generators only occasionally. But Rowe dove straight into provisions that should be considered if the bill is to be responsive to the nuclear industry. Now, there were also representatives from the coal... Posted Oct 30 2009, 10:29 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: legislation, outreach, congress, boxer, kerry, Climate Change, energy

• The Kerry-Boxer Hearings: Day 2

  As you might expect, the second of three days of the hearings on the climate change bill saw some themes emerge. First, the tenor more-or-less avoids talking about specific energy generators even when representatives of relevant companies are present. Natural gas probably picked up the most traction and even that was fairly muted. Second, many of the participants worry that Congress will not act and... Posted Oct 29 2009, 11:10 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: legislation, outreach, congress, boxer, kerry, Climate Change, energy

• The Nuclear Title and the Fourth Estate

  The industry’s release of the nuclear title has multiple goals. One, of course, is to provide information to Congress as it considers the Kerry-Boxer climate change legislation, to indicate how the industry can help government achieve its goals. But that information is fully public, so it has a role in the public discourse, too. As important as the other estates is the fourth estate, those outlets... Posted Oct 28 2009, 05:06 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: legislation, outreach, congress, boxer, kerry, Climate Change, energy

• The Kerry-Boxer Hearings: Day One

  The first of three days of hearings about the Boxer-Kerry climate change bill in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (chaired by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)) went the way opening days often do. The Senators kicked things off with what were essentially position papers, with Sen. Boxer highly favorable to the bill and ranking member Sen. James Inhofe (R. Okla.) highly unfavorable. (Inhofe... Posted Oct 27 2009, 04:48 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Nuclear Energy, legislation, outreach, congress, boxer, kerry, energy

• NEI’s Nuclear Policy Initiative

  We gave you a heads up the other day with some fact sheets that outline what the industry - and NEI – has been doing as hearings on the energy bill get underway today (Look at the Twitter feed on your right for some quotes coming out of the hearings. We’ll see about fleshing them out later). Toward this end, NEI has released a detailed nuclear policy initiative outlining where nuclear energy fits into... Posted Oct 27 2009, 12:25 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: NEI, legislation, outreach, congress, energy, nuclear energy institute

• 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