Opinion: The press often misleads on what renewables deliver By Fred Behringer, cross-posted from CT Mirror Reports on renewable energy often inflate their contribution to our energy supply. An example recently appeared in The Connecticut Mirror. In “Plans for offshore wind power blow back into New England” by Jan Ellen [...]
Read the U.S.'s 5th Climate Assessment to See How Bad It Really Is! The Fifth National Climate Assessment is the US Government’s preeminent report on climate change impacts, risks, and responses. It is a congressionally mandated interagency effort that provides the scientific foundation to support informed decision-making across the United [...]
Natural gas industry leaks makes gas worse than coal Back in July, 2018, Anthony J. Marchese and Dan Zimmerle published an article on CNBC regarding studies attempting to measure the level of leakage of methane gas throughout the industry. They found that, while natural gas was rapidly displacing coal in part [...]
WATCH THIS FILM AND LEARN WHY WE NEED NUCLEAR ENERGY Please use the below links to find theaters & related events Nuclear Now will be 350 Theater across the U.S. on May 1st About the Film: https://www.nuclearnowfilm.com/ Find theaters & Buy Tickets: https://www.nuclearnowfilm.com/watch NY Times Film Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/movies/nuclear-now-review.html Nuclear Now [...]
SIGN OUR PETITION : Improve the Energiewende! Let clean nuclear, hydro, wind and solar work in unity towards 100% clean! We are sick and tired of the self-defeating bickering within the Climate Movement! By opposing other types of clean energy, we are shooting ourselves in the foot and allowing fossil [...]
Update: Palisades was bought by Holtec Holtec, the new owner of the Palisades plant, has applied to the DOE for support in re-starting Palisades, with the support of Governor Whitmer. Their initial CNC application was rejected but it appears that they are re-applying! This is very good news for Michigan [...]
Sign our letter to Senator Aric Nesbitt to Author Resolution Recognizing Palisades' Carbon Credit-Worthiness The Climate Coalition has drafted a letter to Michigan State Senator Aric Nesbitt urging him to submit a resolution to the Michigan Legislature declaring Palisades to be a legitimate issuer of nuclear carbon offsets. The letter [...]
Join the Campaign to Save Diablo Canyon It is vital that everyone understand why Diablo Canyon is critical to the success of California's energy decarbonization—both in a timely and a cost-effective manner. The following are the steps you can take to learn more and support our clean energy. Step 1: [...]
Political Candidate Climate Positions This Airtable has been pre-sorted to group candidates by State and Office Sought. Airtable allows you to scroll across to see all columns. It also lets you reset the width of the displayed rows, to sort, filter, group, ungroup or copy the candidates' answers. Learn [...]
Recognition of Governor Whitmer's and Secretary Granholm's Efforts to Save Palisades The Climate Coalition and hundreds of co-signers sent a letter on Valentine's Day to Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the entire slate of elected Michigan officials urging them to protect Palisades. Since then, our letter has continued to garner [...]
Renewables + Nuclear: Partners in Decarbonization (The following analysis is available for use for any purpose with attribution to the Climate Coalition.) (Click to download a PDF of this information.) “Nuclear or Renewables” is a false dichotomy when 83.1% of the world’s primary energy [...]
The C+ Student's Guide to Understanding Nuclear Energy: Myths, Facts, & Fears in 21 Easy-to-Understand Q&As We are delighted to share Shawn M. Connors' wonderfully-produced handbook about nuclear energy with our community. Shawn is the Founder of the Atomic Garage Movement, a self-proclaimed "C+ Student," and a new member of [...]
C C Why Russian agression is the problem, not nuclear power March 5, 2022 There has been much discussion in the news over the last few days about the problems posed by the Russians attacking the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power plant in the Ukraine. There has also been a great deal [...]
Listing of press related to our efforts to save Palisades A Michigan nuclear plant is set to close. Does it threaten state's zero-carbon future? The Detroit News: February 27, 2022, by Carol Thompson One of Michigan's three nuclear plants will shut down this spring after more than [...]
About Greenwashing Consumer, investors, voters, marketers and even corporations are increasingly aware of the harmful environmental impacts of much of what we consume and are striving to make increasingly sustainable choices and options. Unfortunately, demand for better choices has put pressure on those selling products, services and investments to attract the [...]
Steps to help us save Palisades STEP 1: Sign below on our original letter to Michigan officials (replicated below) to show your agreement that Michigan needs to protect Palisades in order to stay on its pathway to zero-emission energy by 2035, as committed by the Governor. STEP 2: Join us [...]
How our internal divisions set us back on addressing climate with carbon emission reductions, even after fossil fuels lost the battle to stymie action with climate skepticism When can you get a certain portion of progressive Democrats to applaud locking in big increases in carbon emissions but Republicans [...]
Sign the 1st Letter to Governor Newsom Below we have copied the letter to Governor Newsom sent by a group of 79 leading scientists, academics and business leaders including former Secretary of Energy and Nobel Laureate, Dr. Steven Chu, Pulitzer Prize Laureate, Richard Rhodes and renowned climate scientist, Dr. James [...]
Advanced reactors complement renewables and can enable higher penetrations of renewables, while preserving grid reliability.
Please sign our petition for California to save its largest source of clean
C C Dr. Todd Allen is professor and the Glenn F. and Gladys H. Knoll Department Chair of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan. He is also the founding director of the Fastest Path to Zero initiative and director of the Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project. He [...]
Background on Legal Fight to Save Diablo Canyon During the past six years, Californians for Green Nuclear Power (CGNP) has been the lead author, researcher, advocate or editor of thousands of pages of written public or legal advocacy on behalf of the continued safe operation of Diablo [...]
C C 53 Elected Officials sign a letter opposing the expansion of natural gas infrastructure by the NYS Public Service Commission. This is good but these officials fail to recognize that, in having closed Indian Point, downstate New York's only source of firm clean power, the PSC is obliged to [...]
Exploring Who Opposes Nuclear Energy and Why As anachronistic as it is, anti-nuclear forces still exert a lot of political power in the U.S. and around the world. We shall take a look at some of the prominent corporations, spokespeople, organizations and local activists opposing nuclear. [...]
MM New York City facing emergency energy crisis within 60 days of closing Indian Point: Who would have guessed? Commentary on 'Conserve Energy': New York City Begs Residents to Help Avoid Outages, a New York Times article by Mihir Zaveri and Ashley Wong Less than sixty days from closing the [...]
MM New legislation aims to help existing nuclear power Report on an article posted at Daily Energy Insider by Liz Carey In late June, a group of pro-nuclear U.S. senators introduced legislation to level the playing field for nuclear on eligibility for the tax credits being proposed for wind operators. [...]
March 31, 2021 Sarah Durdaller (Energy) Stephen Bradford (Energy) Dear Sarah and Stephen: Thank you for this message. Independent nonprofit Californians for Green Nuclear Power, Inc. (CGNP) is working to save a safe, reliable, cost-effective and zero-emission nuclear power plant in California from voluntary retirement in 2025. Our advocacy has taken us [...]
MM Tallying the cost of antinuclear sentiments By Matt MacCaughey, Guest Author I am a passionate pro-nuclear advocate with an engineering degree from UMaine, along with two minors in renewable energy. I am working in the energy sector now doing mostly safety work for nuclear plants and a few fossil [...]
We demand an emergency moratorium on needless nuclear plant closures! Introduction We are a coalition of community activists, engineers, environmentalists, business professionals, and academics who share a desire for rapid deep decarbonization of the U.S. economy. In order to meet our collective [...]
Submit your request to join below. (Click to download) Thanks for your interest in helping to plan this campaign to convince the Biden Administration of the need to issue a nation-wide emergency moratorium on the closures of existing nuclear power [...]
February 10, 2021 Holman Jenkins Wall Street Journal Holman.Jenkins@wsj.com Dear Holman: Californians for Green Nuclear Power, Inc. (CGNP) appreciates your endorsement of nuclear power in your recent article, "Biden's Age of Climate Decadence." CGNP has been fighting to keep Diablo Canyon Power Plant running past 2025 before such regulators as the California [...]
February 6, 2021 Rachel McDevitt WITF - FM 4801 Lindle Road Harrisburg, PA 17111 (717) 704-3000 or (800) 366-9483 rachel_mcdevitt@witf.org. Dear Rachel: Thank you for your reporting in the February 4, 2021 story, "Climate change doesn’t get a mention in Wolf’s budget address." I particularly appreciated your quote from American Petroleum Institute [...]
NOAA's Climate Dashboard at Climate.gov All Indicators Have Gotten A LOT Worse For the past four years, the Trump Administration has tied the hands of the scientific community and disavowed any interest in addressing climate. He and his lackeys removed references to "climate" [...]
Thank you. We came out in force to demand grid reliability! Thanks to all who answered the call to Support Grid Reliability. We are very pleased to have had a really strong show of support for the action filed by Californians for [...]
NYISO's Mischaractization of Key Information The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) releases an annual state of the grid and markets report called Power Trends. According to NYISO CEO, Robert Fernandez, this report "provides the facts and analysis necessary to understand the many factors shaping New York’s complex electric system." In [...]
Fossil fuel profits, popularity in free-fall At one point, not that long ago, the fossil fuel sector comprised 15% of global economic activity. Today fossil major's share of the S&P 500 has shrunk to 2.5%. Although fossil's share of the world market for energy—hanging tough at about 80% for many decades—has been [...]
