Culver to announce governors' wind energy recommendations

Gov. Chet Culver and will join Republican Rhode Island Gov. Donald Carcieri Tuesday to release Great Expectations: The Governors' Wind Energy Coalition's 2010 Recommendations.

Culver and Carcieri are the chairman and vice chairman of the coalition, respectively.  The recommendations encompass a broad range of wind energy policy initiatives that address the governors' top priorities: green economic development, job creation, and energy security.  This bipartisan group, composed of 29 governors from across the nation, shares a common concern that the nation's dependence on unsustainable and carbon intensive energy sources is an unacceptable risk to the nation's energy, economic, and environmental security.

The report will be made available afte governors' joint conference call to announce the recommendations Tuesday afternoon.