A Nov. 16 environmental coalition letter to President Obama urges the administration not to expand the nuclear power loan guarantee program in its Fiscal Year 2011 budget request to Congress. Along similar lines, U.S. Representative Ed Markey (D-MA), chairman of the powerful Energy and Environmental Subcommittee in the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee, has urged Energy Secretary Chu to not rush nuclear loan guarantees to flawed new reactor designs.