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COPYRIGHT 2001 The Dallas Morning News
Byline: Jim Landers
Feb. 26--WASHINGTON--A political battle between energy producers and environmentalists gets under way Monday when Sen. Frank Murkowski, R-Alaska, introduces his national energy security bill.
Mr. Murkowski, chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, wants the bill to serve as an omnibus measure changing federal laws on oil, natural gas, nuclear power, coal, transportation and transmission systems and renewable energy.
The congressional debate promises to be unlike anything the country has seen since 1979, when former President Jimmy Carter produced a national energy plan to cope with soaring oil prices, the Three-Mile Island nuclear power accident and what Mr. Carter called a national "crisis of confidence."
Republicans opposed much of Mr. Carter's effort as massive government intervention in the economy, and answered his "national malaise" critique in 1980 with the optimism of Ronald Reagan and a rollback on energy planning and regulation.
Now it's...
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