Jeff Bingaman: “So support for RPS is strong throughout the Nation. A poll recently by Melvin & Associates found that 70 percent of…”

“So support for RPS is strong throughout the Nation. A poll recently by Melvin & Associates found that 70 percent of those surveyed nationwide supported a 20-percent portfolio standard. That is not what I am recommending. I am recommending 15 percent. But these results were about the same in States as diverse as North Dakota and Georgia and Missouri and Arizona. Environmental groups, from the Sierra Club to the Natural Resources Defense Council, to the industrial associations, to the renewable trade groups, to utilities have all supported RPS. We recently received letters from a great many organizations. Let me indicate what these letters are. First, we have a letter to Senators Reid, McConnell, Bingaman, and Domenici, signed by several hundred organizations indicating their strong support for this proposal that I have put before the Senate today.”