Congressman Fattah Cites Gallup Poll: Americans Favor Nuclear Energy

WASHINGTON, March 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA), who has introduced The Clean Energy Act of 2010 to promote the nation's clean energy and nuclear technologies to ensure adequate electricity for all Americans, hailed a Gallup Poll that shows increasing public support for nuclear energy.

"The number of Americans advocating a stepped up use of nuclear power to provide for our energy needs has increased steadily for more than a decade," said Fattah, chairman of the Congressional Urban Caucus. "Now the support level has reached 62 percent, and it is time to turn that mandate into policy for our electricity consumers."

The Gallup Poll, conducted March 4-7, found 62 percent of Americans favor the use of nuclear energy for electricity, including 28 percent who strongly favor it. That is the highest favorability score since Gallup began asking the question in 1994. President Obama this month announced federal government loan guarantees to build the first nuclear power plants in the United States in three decades.

"We must ensure that all Americans, especially those in low-income families and communities, will have the power they need at prices they can afford," said Fattah, an eight term legislator from Philadelphia who serves on the House Appropriations Committee's Energy and Water Development Subcommittee.

"My legislation, and its companion bipartisan bill in the Senate introduced by Senators Jim Webb (D-VA) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN), is pro-consumer. It will promote further investment and development of the nation's clean energy technologies, including nuclear power and other resources."

SOURCE Office of Congressman Chaka Fattah

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