Alternative Energy

Preparing for the release of the Senate's clean energy legislation (made public today), a group of 26 Missouri business leaders wrote Senators Kit Bond and Claire McCaskill earlier this week to support the comprehensive climate and energy bill. As outlined in an accompanying release from Missouri Votes Conservation, the letter calls on Bond and McCaskill to support policies that include:

• Encouragement for entrepreneurs to invest in cleaner, energy-efficient technologies and industries.
• New markets for the dozens of small Missouri businesses who provide the needed materials and services for the energy efficiency market.
• Protection against the dramatic energy price spikes experienced over the last several years.

Believe it or not, the new Republican energy plan would actually prohibit any consideration of climate changing/global warming pollution under the Clean Air Act.  Apparently, when folks like Roy Blunt say they want an "all of the above" energy policy -- they actually mean "none of the above."

House Republicans today introduced their alternative energy plan. Developed by the Republican American Energy Solutions Group, the American Energy Act is billed as an “all of the above” energy program. But as The Wonk Room’s Brad Johnson notes, the legislation looks more like an attempt to legislate the threat of global warming “out of existence.” Indeed, the bill specifically states that at no point in implementing their energy plan can the effects of global warming on the environment “be considered for any purpose”:

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This afternoon in Jefferson City:

Vice President Joe Biden used a visit to a mid-Missouri transformer factory Thursday to highlight how the federal economic stimulus package is propelling a new wind-energy project and spinning off jobs.

Speaking from the factory floor of ABB Inc., Biden announced that the Department of Energy will award about $4 billion in grants under the stimulus package to improve the nation's electric grid...

Biden touted an order for 100 ABB-built electrical transformers to be used at a $300 million wind power plant in northwest Missouri. Wind Capital Group, which plans to break ground in August on the DeKalb County project, says it will be the largest wind farm in Missouri with a capacity to provide power to about 50,000 homes.

Several photos of the event (including the one posted here) can be found at ColumbiaMissouri.com.