From: Nuclear Information & Resource Service <nirs@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 3:10 PM
To: Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: WE STILL HAVE TO ACT NOW: No Nuclear Power in the American Jobs Plan
Tell Biden and Congress – Keep Nuclear Bailouts out of the American Jobs Plan
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Dear Miriam,
We must act now to stop nuclear power and ensure 100% clean, safe, renewable
energy.
Last week, a group of senators filed a nuclear bailout amendment to the Clean
Energy for America Act, which is currently a good renewable energy bill.
Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD), Bob Casey (D-PA), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
submitted the changes one day before the scheduled markup by the Senate Finance
Committee.
The amendment would create a refundable tax credit (PTC) for unprofitable
reactors. Based on the number of eligible reactors that could be eligible, the
estimated cost to taxpayers in lost revenue could be $50-100 billion through
2031. This would give as much money to aging, dangerous nukes as Sen. Wyden’s
bill would provide for the new development of clean renewables. We simply can’t
solve the climate crisis if we waste half of our money padding the bottom lines
of the nuclear industry.
Exelon, the largest owner of merchant reactors in the country, reported
lobbying just last quarter on both the Clean Energy for America Act and on
“existing nuclear tax incentives.” In the 2020 cycle alone, Senator Cardin
received $39,500 from Exelon, while Senator Casey received $138,231.
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ACT NOW: Tell the White House and Congress – no nuclear power in of the
American Jobs Plan.
We can’t let nuclear power block renewable energy—our only real solution to the
climate crisis. We can’t keep making radioactive waste and risking nuclear
disasters that are endangering human health, especially in Indigenous, Black,
and Latino communities.
The Senate energy bill could become the blueprint for renewable energy in
President Biden’s American Jobs Plan. It is an historic opportunity to build a
thriving, just, and equitable clean energy economy—and to finally put the U.S.
on the path to fight climate change with the ambition and scale that we need.
As the President originally proposed it, the American Jobs Plan would transform
our energy system to 100% clean energy by 2035 and create millions of jobs to
do it.
But the nuclear industry sees the writing on the wall—100% clean energy means
no more nuclear power. They are furiously lobbying the White House and Congress
to prevent that. If they succeed, the American Jobs Plan will fail. We can’t
allow that to happen—and that means we have to stop the nuclear bailout in the
Senate.
We can’t let nuclear power block renewable energy—our only real solution to the
climate crisis. We can’t keep making radioactive waste and risking nuclear
disasters that are endangering human health, especially in Indigenous, Black,
and Latino communities.
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Take Action Now
We have a chance to not only stop nuclear power but can set the country on the
road to 100% renewable energy within a generation. We can create a thriving,
healthy economy for communities throughout the U.S. with millions of good jobs
and real, just, and equitable opportunities.
Those are the stakes. Either the American Jobs Plan becomes the biggest nuclear
bailout in history, and we end up with another generation’s worth of
radioactive waste, or we win the nuclear-free, carbon-free future we need and
deserve
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ACT NOW: Keep Nuclear Power out of the American Jobs Plan
Thanks for all you do!
The NIRS Team
Diane D’Arrigo
Denise Jakobsberg
Tim Judson
Ann McCann
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