Senator Pete Domenici, chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, removed the climate title from the comprehensive energy legislation. The climate title included policies based on global warming alarmism that would have hurt US workers and consumers. Myron Ebell from the Competitive Enterprise Institute praised Domenici's decision to drop the climate title, saying it will help create an affordable energy future. CEI had sent a letter urging Domenici not to include destructive climate policies in the final energy bill.

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Competitive Enterprise Institute
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Domenici Makes Right Decision on Climate Title
Threat to Affordable Energy Removed from Energy Bill
Washington, D.C., April 9, 2003-The Competitive Enterprise Institute
congratulates Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM), Chairman of the Energy and
Natural Resources Committee, for his decision to remove the climate title
from his comprehensive energy legislation. The first draft of his bill had
included unfortunate climate policies based on global warming alarmism
that would have hurt U.S. workers and consumers. Those policies have now
been removed from the version of the bill that will be considered by the
committee beginning this Thursday.
"Chairman Domenici and the majority members of the committee are to be
congratulated for their wise decision to drop the climate title in the
energy bill,"1 said Myron Ebell, Director of Global Warming & International
Environmental Policy at CEI. 'We look forward to working with him and
other members of the Senate on policies that will help create an
affordable energy future for all Americans."
CEI and twenty other free market, conservative, consumer, and tax groups
sent an open letter to Chairman Domenici on April 4th, 2003 urging him not
to allow destructive new climate policies to be part of the final energy
bill. The letter is available online at
<http://www.cei.org/gencon/027,03433.cfm>.
CEI is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group dedicated to the
principles of free enterprise and limited government. For more information
about CEI, please visit our website at www.cei.org <http://www.cei.org/>.
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