Clean Air Act defended -- Murkowski "Dirty Air Act" defeated on Senate floor 53 to 47!

As repoorted by Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski's "Dirty Air Act," which would have gutted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act, was defeated by a vote of 53 to 47. SACE provides a link to the vote record, so you can check which way your Senators voted, and contact them (via the Capitol Switchboard, 202-224-3121) to say thanks for the good "Nay" vote, or to express your disappointment with their bad "Yes" vote. Thanks for all of you who contacted your Senators before the vote in response to our weekly bulletin action alert, as well!

PSR releases analysis of Kerry-Lieberman "climate" bill's nuclear power section

Michele Boyd at Physicians for Social Responsibility has published a two page summary and an eight page analysis of the Kerry-Lieberman "American Power Act" being proposed in the U.S. Senate. After reading these analyses, phone (via the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121) your two U.S. Senators to urge they block such nuclear power subsidies and regulatory rollbacks -- the nuclear power industry's "wish list" in this legislation is a mile long!

Still time to block $9 billion expansion to nuclear loan guarantees -- call Congress today!

As Harvey Wasserman reports in "Apocalypse in the Gulf now (oil) & next (nukes)," we still have a week to urge our U.S. Representatives to remove $9 billion in new loan guarantees for atomic reactor construction from the emergency war and disaster relief funding bill before the U.S. House Appropriations Committee. See the environmental group coalition letter to House Members, as well Taxpayers for Common Sense's own letter to the U.S. House, objecting to these new atomic reactor loan guarantees.  Check to see if your U.S. Representative serves on the Appropriations Committee. If they do, phone them via the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and urge them to do all they can to block this atomic industry give-away at taxpayer risk. Even if your U.S. Representative does not serve on that committee, call them anyway, and urge that they weigh in with their colleagues on the committee to oppose this massive subsidy. Also, call U.S. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey (D-WI) at (202) 225-2771 to urge this radioactive provision be removed from the bill. See Beyond Nuclear's earlier alert on this issue for additional background information, as well as our original post when Politico broke this story.

New and updated information on the nuclear problems in France

Our newly expanded and updated pamphlet - Nuclear Power in France, setting the record straight - contains a comprehensive set of examples showing that nuclear power in France is far from a success. Please download and distribute the pamphlet or order hard copies via email at info@beyonduclear.org.

A Nuclear gamble on the not-so-distant horizon

The Beyond Nuclear Op-Ed in Common Dreams - A Nuclear Gamble on the Not-So-Distant Horizon -warns  that President Obama and NRC's coziness with the nuclear power industry increasingly risks disaster similar to the Deepwater Horizon eco-catastrophe unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico.