Congressional Leaders Promote Conference on ”Peak Oil and the Environment”

WASHINGTON, DC. — Congressmen Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) and Tom Udall (D-NM) urged immediate action to reduce America’s dependence upon oil and address climate change while endorsing an upcoming conference sponsored by the University of Maryland, Sustainable Energy Forum 2006: Peak Oil and the Environment.

The bi-partisan leaders of the Congressional Peak Oil caucus, along with other conference presenters including Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute, and Dan Lashof of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Roger Bezdek of Management Information Services, Inc. and University of Maryland College of Chemical and Life Sciences Dean Norma Allewell, discussed the global implications and urgency that these twin challenges present.

“Its more than high prices at the pump,” said Congressman Tom Udall, who co-chairs the Congressional Peak Oil Caucus with Rep. Bartlett. “The negative consequences of our dependence on oil are becoming apparent.”

Sustainable Energy Forum 2006 will feature Congressman Bartlett, Governor Brian Schweitzer (D-MT), James Hansen (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies), Mona Sahlin (Swedish Minister for Sustainable Development), Michael Klare (author of Blood Oil), Herman Daly (author of Beyond Growth), and more than 20 other leading thinkers on sustainability.

World-Wire