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Energy recommendations
December 9, 2004 | Kansas City StarU.S. energy policy over the long term will require new nuclear power plants, cleaner coal and cars that get more miles per gallon, experts said Wednesday.
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Report urges backup storage
December 9, 2004 | Las Vegas ReviewThe government should build storage farms where nuclear waste can be stockpiled, at least temporarily, in above-ground canisters as a backup to Yucca Mountain, energy experts said in a report Wednesday.
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US energy proposal pushes toward center
December 9, 2004 | The Christian Science MonitorThe effort to craft a comprehensive national energy strategy got a significant nudge this week. After two year's work, the nonpartisan National Commission on Energy Policy, a panel funded by several foundations, issued what's likely to be an influential report addressing all aspects of energy...
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Nuclear industry doesn't back temporary Utah storage
December 9, 2004 | Salt Lake TribuneA top nuclear utility lobbyist said most of the industry does not support temporarily storing spent radioactive fuel rods at a proposed Utah site and is solely focused on getting Nevada's Yucca Mountain waste repository opened.
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Energy panel chooses compromise path
December 9, 2004 | Seattle TimesA bipartisan panel of energy experts said yesterday that regulation of climate-changing pollution and improved automobile-fuel efficiency must be an essential elements of the nation's energy agenda — a view that clashes with the White House and many members of Congress.
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Commission Recommends National Energy Policy
December 9, 2004 | RenewableEnergyAccess.comEnergy security for the United States is an issue that is split between the need to diversify the country's energy resources and the reality that the nation's infrastructure is built around fossil fuel consumption. Two years ago the independent National Commission on Energy Policy was formed to...
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Climate treaty 'puts US growth at risk'
December 9, 2004 | Financial TimesThe gulf between the US and Europe on climate change yawned as wide as ever on Thursday after Washington told an international conference that limiting carbon emissions in line with the Kyoto protocol on climate change would damage growth.
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U.S. is Urged to Adopt a Diversified Energy Plan
December 9, 2004 | International Herald TribuneTrying to break a deadlock on energy policy, a diverse group of environmentalists, academics and former government officials published a report on Wednesday that presents strategies for making the United States cleaner, more competitive and less vulnerable to energy shocks.
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Experts: Yucca 'backup' sites needed
December 9, 2004 | Las Vegas SunThe nation needs Yucca Mountain as part of a broad energy strategy, including expanded nuclear power -- but the government should also construct above-ground "dry cask" waste storage sites, a coalition of energy experts said today.
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'Balanced' energy plan offered
December 9, 2004 | COX News ServiceA coherent national energy strategy should include greater subsidies for nuclear power, stricter government auto fuel efficiency standards and mandatory limits on greenhouse gases, a private commission said yesterday.
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