Not All Environmentalists Pleased with Climate Legislation
"It's not accurate to call this a climate bill," said Tyson Slocum who serves as Energy Director for Public Citizen, a Washington DC based consumer advocacy organization. "This is nuclear energy- promoting, oil drilling-championing, coal mining-boosting legislation with a weak carbon pricing mechanism thrown in."
The bill in its current form would bolster the nuclear power industry and would provide handouts to the coal and oil industries. It would also promotes carbon offsets and cap-and-trade policies, a free-market approach to solving the climate crisis that many believe is not an alternative for stricter regulations
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http://www.truth-out.org/not-all-environmentalists-pleased60172
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