Obama touts nuclear plant loans (1:09 p.m. 2/16/10)

Published: February 16, 2010
Tags: federal loan guarantees, nuclear power plant, Obama, Southern Co.

By Julie Pace AP Writer Lanham, Md. — Promising “this is only the beginning,” President Barack Obama announced more than $8 billion in federal loan guarantees Tuesday for the construction of the first nuclear power plant in the United States in nearly three decades. Obama called for comprehensive energy legislation that assigns a cost to [...]

Nuclear plant battle threatens task force bill (UPDATE)

By Paul Snyder State lawmakers preparing global warming legislation are feeling the fallout from a clean energy coalition’s opposition to a nuclear power plant bill. State Rep. Jim Soletski, D-Green Bay, is one of four lawmakers developing the global warming legislation based on recommendations made last year by the Governor’s Task Force on Global Warming. [...]