Release: The Dirty Facts Behind Beauprez's Clean Energy Tour
| By Alan Franklin - Aug 10th, 2006 at 6:09 pm EDT |
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The Dirty Facts behind Beauprez's Clean Energy Tour
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, August 10, 2006
CONTACT: Michael Huttner
(303) 931-4547
ProgressNowAction responded to Congressman Bob Beauprez's Clean Energy Tour by sharing his real record of failure on renewable energy.
"That Beauprez is on a Clean Energy Tour is Both Ways Bob at his worst," stated Michael Huttner, Executive Director of ProgressNowAction. "Beauprez has one of the dirtiest records on supporting renewable energy as one of the largest recipients of the oil and gas industry."
Beauprez supported President Bush's 2006 budget, which slashed key energy research funds, leading to a $28 million decrease in the budget for National Renewable Energy Laboratory--which is located in Beauprez's district. Beauprez then failed to join a group of over 100 bipartisan Representatives in signing a letter dated November 8, 2005, urging the President to restore the funding to NREL.
Four times in the last year, Beauprez seized the opportunity to vote in opposition to measures which favored renewable energy. The most flagrant of these was his vote on May 24, 2005, to block the authorization of $250 million for research, development, demonstration and deployment of new energy technologies.
On 15 separate amendments to the Energy Policy Act of 2005 Beauprez cast votes favoring the oil or energy industries over consumer and renewable energy concerns.
This may come as no surprise as in 2004 Beauprez was of the largest recipients of the millions of dollars given to candidates by the oil and gas industry according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, August 10, 2006
CONTACT: Michael Huttner
(303) 931-4547
ProgressNowAction responded to Congressman Bob Beauprez's Clean Energy Tour by sharing his real record of failure on renewable energy.
"That Beauprez is on a Clean Energy Tour is Both Ways Bob at his worst," stated Michael Huttner, Executive Director of ProgressNowAction. "Beauprez has one of the dirtiest records on supporting renewable energy as one of the largest recipients of the oil and gas industry."
Beauprez supported President Bush's 2006 budget, which slashed key energy research funds, leading to a $28 million decrease in the budget for National Renewable Energy Laboratory--which is located in Beauprez's district. Beauprez then failed to join a group of over 100 bipartisan Representatives in signing a letter dated November 8, 2005, urging the President to restore the funding to NREL.
Four times in the last year, Beauprez seized the opportunity to vote in opposition to measures which favored renewable energy. The most flagrant of these was his vote on May 24, 2005, to block the authorization of $250 million for research, development, demonstration and deployment of new energy technologies.
On 15 separate amendments to the Energy Policy Act of 2005 Beauprez cast votes favoring the oil or energy industries over consumer and renewable energy concerns.
This may come as no surprise as in 2004 Beauprez was of the largest recipients of the millions of dollars given to candidates by the oil and gas industry according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
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