A Delaware Senator said bipartisan support for new nuclear to combat global
warming is growing. Thomas Carper said he sees increasing support for language
in a global warming bill that would promote construction of nuclear plants.

At a November 8 Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on bill
S.2191, Carper said his support for the measure, which calls for cutting
greenhouse gas emissions 60% below 2005 levels by 2050, is contingent on
adding language to promote nuclear as a non-greenhouse-gas-emitting source.
"There is going to be a nuclear amendment," Carper told Platts, either during
committee markup or on the Senate floor. He said he believes bipartisan
support for nuclear provisions is increasing. The bill, sponsored by Senators
Joe Lieberman, an Independent from Connecticut, and Republican John Warner
from Virginia, would set incremental caps on greenhouse emissions from the
electric power, transportation fuel and industrial sectors starting in 2012,
and would set up a carbon allowance market.