Senate Republicans dust off last year's alternate energy bill.

Chemical Market Reporter, August, 2003 by Hess, Glenn

SENATE REPUBLICANS have agreed to abandon their stalled energy bill and resurrect an alternative measure written by Democrats that originally cleared the chamber a year ago. Although the extraordinary political maneuver broke an impasse over the first major overhaul of US energy policy in a decade, a top chemical industry official called the action a "shocking disappointment." "The number one energy issue in America is the lack of adequate supplies of natural gas at affordable prices," says American Chemistry Council (ACC) president Greg Lebedev.

"It stands to reason that fixing the crisis gripping natural gas markets should be Congress's number one priority in any energy legislation. But adopting last year's energy bill does nothing to solve...

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