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“Planet of the Humans:” Humanity’s Epitaph, or an Incomplete Tale? The recent documentary release by Michael Moore, Planet of the Humans, comes down hard on renewable energy, much to the dismay of that industry and of many environmentalists and “green” energy supporters. The film portrays renewables as failing miserably [...]
A Pandemic is the wrong time to shut down Indian Point This brilliant and eye-opening Opinion piece was recently published in the New York Post by Robert Bryce, A Pandemic is the wrong time to shut down NYC’s top source of electricity. Bryce makes an excellent argument for why Governor Cuomo should [...]
State, climate need benefits of plentiful, clean nuclear power Alan Medsker, a campaigner for Generation Atomic and a member of the Climate Coalition, authored an opinion piece entitled "State, climate need benefits of plentiful, clean nuclear power" for the Daily Herald, which is well worth reading. In it, he makes the case [...]
MM MM To meet the unprecedented challenge that is climate change, we need the broadest coalition demanding that zero-carbon energy grids be deployed to meet humanity's growing energy needs. The Climate Coalition is for those who are willing to work together with everyone who [...]
A message to the climate community. Friends, so many of you have posted wonderful pictures of celebrations, escapes into beauty, and reflections on both the joys and the sorrows of the past, while projecting and wishing good things for our future. In this moment of wishfulness and open introspection, [...]
U.N. Climate Talks End With Few Commitments and a 'Lost' Opportunity Following the Madrid climate talks, Somini Sengupta reports on the incredibly disappointing outcome in The New York Times in an article called “U.N. Talks End With Few Commitments and a 'Lost' Opportunity." Climate talks in Madrid ended on December 14th [...]
The Next Nuclear Plants Will Be Small, Svelte, and Safer Daniel Oberhaus published an article in Wired called “The Next Nuclear Plants Will Be Small, Svelte, and Safer," in which he illuminates the work done by an Oregon energy startup. NuScale Power, working on Oregon State University campus, developed a modular nuclear power reactor [...]
FirstEnergy Solutions to become Energy Harbor, keep headquarters in Akron Crain's Cleveland Business wrote an article entitled, “FirstEnergy Solutions to become Energy Harbor, keep headquarters in Akron," that explains the recent developments of a local business that owns many power plants throughout Ohio. FirstEnergy Solutions Corp. (FES) will be rebranding itself with the name [...]
Can a regulated asset model help deliver new investments? World Nuclear News published a viewpoint created by Edward Kee, Ruediger Koenig, Paul Murphy and Xavier Rollat called, “Can a regulated asset model help deliver new investments?" in which they explore the challenges faced by investments for a new nuclear power plant emit a left-wing [...]
Achieving Peak Pasture The Breakthrough Institute summarizes their report on the environmental impacts of pasture land in, “Achieving Peak Pasture. " Pasture is the largest human use of land in the world, accounting for more than twice the land used to harvest crops globally. Over the last 320 years, a space the size of North America [...]
World’s Emissions Gap Is Growing, with No Sign of Peaking Soon, UN Warns Leslie Hook published an article in Inside Climate News called “World's Emissions Gap is Growing, with No Sign of Peaking Soon, UN Warns," in which she highlights the jaw-dropping gap between the future emissions reduction necessary to meet the [...]
Carbon dioxide capture and use could become big business The University of California, Los Angeles reports on the findings of their study with the University of Oxford and five other institutions in "Carbon dioxide capture and use could become big business." In an effort to drastically reduce carbon emissions, this coalition of [...]
Italy to make climate change study compulsory in schools Gavin Jones reports on the breaking news that Italy will require students to study climate change in school in his article, "Italy to make climate change study compulsory in schools". According to Lorenzo Fioramonti, Italy's Education Minister, Italy will become the first country to [...]
Bipartisan Senate climate caucus grows by six members Rebecca Beitsch reports on the news that six new members will be joining the Climate Solutions Caucus in her article, "Bipartisan Senate climate caucus grows by six members". Three republican representatives, an independent, and two democrats have joined the bipartisan caucus which was created [...]
The new science fossil fuel companies fear Zack Colman published an article in Politico called “The new science fossil fuel companies fear,” in which he describes how Richard Heede spent a decade attempting to find out one thing: "how many greenhouse gases the world’s fossil fuel companies, cement-makers and other industrial giants had pumped into [...]
Nuclear, but better Following listener requests of discussing nuclear, the Marketplace podcast-Make Me Smart with Kai and Molly-brought on Suzy Hobbs Baker as their nuclear energy expert. Baker is the creative director for the Fastest Path to Zero Initiative at the University of Michigan. The hosts, Kai and Molly, begin the show [...]
Nuclear Power Industry heading toward smaller, cheaper, faster build designs: Clear Path During a meeting in June with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Rich Powell-executive director of Clear Path- suggested that advanced small modular reactors (SMR) could be the key in overcoming the industry's biggest issues. The smaller size of these reactors [...]
Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change Naomi Oreskes, Michael Oppenheimer, and Dale Jamieson published an article in Scientific American called “Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change,” which relate the ideas in their book Discerning Experts with the news that the Hadley Centre has led a recent effort in collecting more accurate [...]
Reps. McNerney, Shimkus Introduce Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act Congressmen Jerry McNerney and John Shimkus introduced a bill to safely deal with nuclear waste with using both temporary storage and permanent disposal. The bill will push the Department of Energy to continue their temporary storage of nuclear waste from decommissioned power [...]
Sign the Sustainable Nuclear Petition Kirsten Gogan from Energy for Humanity and others have posted a petition on the OpenPetition website directed at the European Commission Technical Expert Group. This petition endeavors to advocate for more informed, evidence-based and effective energy and climate policy in Europe. While not specifically about supporting [...]
Candidates Should Heed Obama and Clinton Paul Steidler has published an article in Inside Sources called “Candidates Should Heed Obama, Clinton on Nuclear Power," in which he bemoans the fact that none of the top 2020 candidates for the Democratic Party are strong nuclear energy supporters. All of the candidates highlight [...]
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Should Nuclear Power Qualify As a Renewable Source? According to Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham, yes it should. In a post entitled, “Bill introduced to allow nuclear power to qualify as a renewable energy source," produced by the staff of the Central Coast CBS Channel 6 affiliate, KSBY, we learn that new California [...]
11 Reasons why DOE is all in on new nuclear On August 28, 2019, Dan Brouillette, the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, published a write-up of eleven ways that demonstrate the Department of Energy's commitment to nuclear energy and especially advanced nuclear, in support of the more than [...]
Why The World Needs More Nuclear Power In “Why The World Needs More Nuclear Power," by Robert Rapier in Forbes, Rapier reports on the current status of the nuclear energy industry and how important it is if we are going to decarbonize the world’s energy supply. Currently, the United States is [...]
It's Time to Embrace Nuclear Energy A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow, by Joshua S. Goldstein and Staffan A. Qvist, depicts two different paths of emission-free energy use: Germany and Sweden. The contrasting stories have Sweden on one side. The Swedish has [...]
We Demand a Green New Deal Focused on 100% Clean Energy We have launched a MoveOn petition demanding that the Green New Deal being discussed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez focuses on achieving 100% non-emitting clean energy. There are problems with demanding 100% renewables, because this ignores some of our best and [...]
HBO's "Chernobyl" greatly exaggerates the disaster's fallout risks The HBO mini-series “Chernobyl” has many people raving about it. Including those who support nuclear power. Yet, it also appears that the producers had to exaggerate the reality of the accident to produce the degree of emotional impact that they were seeking [...]
Scientists revisit the cold case of cold fusion According to a report in the University of British Columbia press, a group of scientists from the University of British Columbia, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Maryland, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Google are conducting a multi-year investigation into [...]
Will Estonia be the first nation to deploy a 4th Gen Small Modular Reactor? [The below info comes directly from an announcement sent by Simon Newton of Moltex, which claims that it has designed and patented a reactor which is inherently safe, cheaper than fossil-fuelled power plants and uses nuclear waste as [...]
Nuclear Support is trending David Leonhardt, the New York Times' Pulitzer Prize-winning Op-Ed columnist, used his May 6th daily precise of relevant news which is sent to subscribers to review the status of how various individuals' and groups' within the Democratic party are changing their thinking and approaches towards addressing climate change, [...]
A truly yummy climate solution In Robert Stone's iconic film, Pandora's Promise, Stewart Brand posed the key questions that we are still endeavoring to address every day: "Can you be an environmentalist and be pronuclear? In light of climate change, can you be an environmentalist and not be pronuclear?" It is our [...]
Where is the reporting about Climate Change? Today is Easter. It is also Earth Day. Where is the uproar and clamour over what is happening to our planet? According to the editors of the Washington Post, there are plenty of stories about climate change, they just tend [...]
We are pleased to pass on this message from the IAEA: Dear colleague, As you may already be aware of, we would like to remind you that the IAEA is organizing later this year the first ever conference concentrating solely on nuclear power and climate change. The 2019 International Conference on Climate [...]
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