Below is a list of the Republican Party’s key energy commitments:
- Support leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)
- Opposed to the Kyoto Protocol
- Opposed to mandatory controls on carbon emissions
- Extend production tax credits for wind and biomass
- Expand the use of bio-diesel and ethanol
- Meet the challenge of long-term climate change by relying on markets and
new technologies to improve energy efficiency
- Organize a stable, affordable, more independent energy supply
- Remove unnecessary barriers to domestic natural gas production in new
areas, such as Alaska and the Rocky Mountains
- Support the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository
- Meet the challenge of long-term climate change by relying on markets and
new technologies to improve energy efficiency
- Construct new nuclear power plants through the Nuclear Power 2010
initiative
- Commit $2-bil over 10 years for clean coal research and development. That
commitment is represented in the FutureGen project, a public and private
effort involving carbon sequestration in a power plant that would burn coal
more cleanly
- Supports the Clear Skies proposal: this features a cap-and-trade system
and will reduce power plant emissions of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides
and mercury by 70%. That commitment is represented in the FutureGen project
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