Governors Coalition Urges Congress to Move Clean Energy, Climate Legislation Separately

摘要

Congress should move forward with a national renewable electricity standard, expedited permitting for wind and solar farms, and other policy initiatives advocated by the clean energy industry separately from efforts to establish a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gas emissions, the chairman of a coalition representing 29 governors said March 16.rn"We don't want those things to get caught up in a broader debate that will only slow us down," Gov. Chet Culver (D-Iowa), chairman of the Governors' Wind Energy Coalition, told reporters during a teleconference. "We need to separate out these very common sense goals."