Renewables Deserve More Funding

The Sustainable Energy Coalition recently delivered a letter to President
Bill Clinton asking him to veto a Fiscal Year 2000 funding bill that provides
inadequate funding for renewables (a 22% cut) and efficiency programs (a 18%
cut).

“The cuts are particularly unacceptable as we finish up a summer season marked
by record temperatures, a severe drought in the eastern U.S., massive wildfires
in the western states, the spread of insects carrying tropical diseases into
northern states, and the prospect of wide-spread destruction throughout the south
by hurricanes such as Floyd,” says the Coalition’s letter.