Udall Among Proponents Still Pushing for National Renewable Energy Standard
Proponents of a national renewable energy standard are ramping up efforts during the August recess to convince Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to pass such a provision this year.
Reported by Staff
Senator Mark Udall and others say the nation needs to follow Colorado’s example of requiring a certain percentage of electricity be produced from wind, solar,geothermal and other renewable sources.
RES proponents are circulating a list of op-eds and columns authored over the August recess that call for passage of an RES. Udall, former Department of Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, and members of the Union of Concerned Scientists and of United Steelworkers of America.
The effort is part of an ongoing push by the renewable energy industry and its allies to pass an RES this year, but their efforts may go unrewarded, as Majority Leader Reid has repeatedly said he doesn’t have the votes to pass an RES, and did not include it in a stripped down oil spill response and energy bill.
Udall, meanwhile, has advocated for a 25 percent renewable energy standard by 2025, which surpasses the 15 percent standard narrowly approved in the House version of the bill.
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