RE: Reid vows to block possible energy pick

["Bob Hearn" <rah@america.net>]

After working into the wee hours on a message for the president-elect
regarding selection of Secretary of Energy, the only contact information I
could find was a fax number for the Governor of Texas which I used, and then
when I log on this morning the headline is Bush resigning from the office!

Would someone (maybe Ruth?) please post email, fax, or other contact info
for the Bush organization so that we can all provide input to this process?

Best of Holiday wishes,

Bob Hearn
rah@america.net

-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
[mailto:radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu]On Behalf Of Mercado, Don
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 12:28 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Reid vows to block possible energy pick


Here's how we can make a difference. Call/write/email Bush and urge him to
appoint J. Bennett Johnson.

> December 20, 2000
> Las Vegas Review-Journal
>
>  YUCCA MOUNTAIN: Reid vows to block possible energy pick
>  Louisiana Democrat proponent of nuclear power industry
>
>
>  DONREY WASHINGTON BUREAU
>
>
>  WASHINGTON -- Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Tuesday he would try to block
>
>  Senate confirmation of J. Bennett Johnston, the former Louisiana senator
> and
>  nuclear power champion who is being mentioned as a possible energy
> secretary
>  under incoming President George W. Bush.
>
>
>  Johnston, 68, a Democrat who served in the Senate from 1973 to 1996, was
>  closely associated with energy interests and was the major booster of
> plans
>  to locate a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, 100 miles
> northwest
>  of Nevada.
>
>  As chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, he was
>  considered the engine behind what came to be known as the 1987 "Screw
>  Nevada" bill that designated Yucca Mountain as the only site the
> government
>  would study for a repository.
>
>  "I'm very distressed to hear that Bennett Johnston is a candidate for
> energy
>  secretary. It would be a declaration of war on the environment and
>  environmentalists across the country," said Michael Mariotte, executive
>  director of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service.
>
>  Johnston is partner of a Washington lobbying firm, Johnston and
> Associates,
>  whose clients include the Nuclear Energy Institute, Entergy Corp., SBC
>  Communications, Northrop Grumman and the University of New Orleans,
>  according to Washington Representatives, a lobbyist guidebook.
>
>  Johnston did not respond to calls for comment on Tuesday.
>
>

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