National Energy Policy Act of 1989 and Federal Energy Management Amendments of 1990: Hearing Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session, on S. 324 ... and S. 2191 ... April 5, 1990, Volume 4 |
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Page 96 - A keystone of this strategy is going to be the continuation of the successful policy of market reliance. And it's not going to be easy. We must balance — achieve balance — our increasing need for energy at reasonable prices, our commitment to a safer and healthier environment, our determination to maintain an economy that is second to none, and our goal to reduce dependence by ourselves and our friends and allies on potentially unreliable energy suppliers.
Page 152 - In early 1989 both the Department of Energy and the Edison Electric Institute released reports which forecast that demand for electricity will increase at an average annual rate of 2.4 percent between 1988 and 2000 essentially maintaining the 1 to 1 relationship between an increase in electricity demand and GNP.
Page 164 - Global Climate Coalition Membership Aluminum Association American Electric Power Service Corporation American Gas Association American Iron & Steel Institute American Mining Congress American Nuclear Energy Council American Paper Institute American Petroleum Institute Amoco Corporation ARCO Armco, Inc. Arizona Public Service Company Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers AT&T Automobile Importers of America Baltimore Gas and Electric Company BHP - Utah Minerals International, Inc.
Page 80 - STATEMENT OF LINDA G. STUNTZ, DEPUTY UNDER SECRETARY FOR POLICY, PLANNING AND ANALYSIS, US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY...
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Page 33 - President Bush directed the Secretary of Energy to initiate the development of a comprehensive National Energy Strategy. He stated: "We cannot and will not wait for the next energy crisis to force us to respond. "Our task— our bipartisan task— is to build the national consensus necessary to support this strategy and to make this strategy a living and dynamic document, responsive to new knowledge and new ideas, and to global, environmental, and international clwnges.
Page 46 - Program is designed to reduce key scientific uncertainties and to develop more reliable scientific predictions upon which sound responses to global change can be based.
Page 152 - Whichever projection is used, new demands for electricity cannot be met with current and planned generating capacity. Electric reserve margins are already shrinking across the country and could reach crisis proportions especially in the northeast within the next five years.
Page 49 - ... growth, for intelligent management of our natural resources and efficient use of our industrial capacity, and for sustainable and environmentally sensitive development around the world. The United States is strongly committed to the IPCC process of international cooperation on global climate change. We consider it vital that the community of nations be drawn together in an orderly, disciplined, rational way to review the history of our global environment, to assess the potential for future climate...