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Rep. Nunes Wants to Keep California’s Last Nuclear Power Plant Running
In midst of the summer heatwave, increased energy demands, and worries about possible rolling blackouts due to power shortages, a California Congressman plans to propose legislation aimed at preserving California’s last operating nuclear power plant.
Rep Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) Nunes is expected to introduce the legislation in the House of Representatives on July 9. The bill, known as the Clean Energy Protection Act, would “ensure the continued operation of Diablo Power Canyon Power Plant.”
“Closing California’s last operating nuclear power plant will worsen the state’s energy crisis, drive up electricity prices, and eliminate a major source of zero-emissions clean energy,” Nunes told The Epoch Times via email on July 8.
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Late last week, California’s electricity grid managers declared that the Golden State is dangerously low on electricity.
Despite living in what once was America’s most innovative energy economy, Californians now must endure extreme measures, such as Venezuelan-style rolling blackouts, to relieve stress on the state’s electricity grid.
Today’s energy shortage stems from the California Democratic Party’s socialist climate policies. Proud climate cultists, the Democrats in Sacramento, held captive by the radical environmental lobby, have feverishly pursued Utopian and punitive green mandates that have dug the state into a deep energy hole.
As a result, in the last decade, California’s electricity prices jumped 40%, the biggest increase of any state in the nation. Middle-class and working-class families now pay one of America’s highest electricity rates despite using half as much energy as the average American household.