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- From: ndallen@r-node.gts.org (Nigel Allen)
- Subject: Nation's Environmental Community Offers "Sustainable Energy Blueprint"
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.071108.20697@r-node.gts.org>
- Organization: Echo Beach, Toronto
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 07:11:08 GMT
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- Here is a press release from the Blueprint Coalition.
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- Nation's Environmental Community Offers "Sustainable Energy
- Blueprint" to New Administration
- To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor, Environment Writer
- Contact: Phil Sparks or Marianne Sandretti for the
- Blueprint Coalition, 202-682-1270
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- News Advisory:
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- /Editors: This press conference can be heard live by calling
- 202-220-5050/
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- Endorsed by some of the nation's largest environmental
- organizations, a "Sustainable Energy Blueprint" outlining specific
- policy and budget actions that could be taken by the incoming
- Clinton/Gore administration and the new Congress will be outlined
- at a press conference on Friday, Nov. 20, at 2 p.m. in the West
- Room of the National Press Club, 14th and F streets, N.W.
- The blueprint is the first major transition document to emerge
- from the environmental community.
- State-by-state figures on energy consumption, global warming
- emissions and wind energy potentials will be released at the press
- conference.
- Among the recommendations are proposals to create one million new
- jobs by the end of the decade through investments in sustainable
- energy technologies, increasing the nation's energy efficiency by at
- least 30 percent by 2010, slashing U.S. oil consumption by 50 percent
- and total carbon emissions (the main cause of global warming) by
- 40 percent in the transportation sector, dramatically increasing
- renewable energy resources, and using natural gas as a "bridge" fuel
- while the nation makes the transition to energy-efficient and
- renewable technologies.
- Among the dozens of organizations endorsing the Energy Blueprint
- are: the Natural Resources Defense Council, Friends of the Earth,
- Public Citizen, Environmental Action, the American Wind Energy
- Association and the Alliance to Save Energy.
- The Blueprint coalition says it will present the document to
- officials of the new Clinton/Gore administration and to the Congress.
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