Climate Coalition interviewed about progressives' support for nuclear power A Baltimore Sun journalist reached out in early July to the Climate Coalition to discuss what she saw as "growing support for nuclear energy as a way to meet climate and decarbonization goals." She interviewed Valerie Gardner, Climate Coalition's founder, and they discussed [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Save Indian Point Campaign continues Since the shutdown of Indian Point reactors 2 and 3 in late April of 2020 and 2021, respectively, Holtec Decommissioning International has been decommissioning the plant and claimed that a return to service was not an option anymore. However, in September [...]
Dear Governor Cuomo, We thank you for your leadership at this very difficult time. With New York’s number of coronavirus infections now exceeding 250,000, with 57,000 New Yorkers in the hospital and almost 15,000 deaths, we are facing the worst disaster in the state’s recent history and [...]
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 [...]
The Climate Coalition is hosting its first national survey about the state of climate professionalism across the U.S. Please support this effort and take the survey.
Taiwan voters reverse nuclear ban Nearly 55% of Taiwanese residents turned out to vote on a referendum this past week which would determine whether or not Taiwan maintained its nuclear generation or ended it. In a result that surprised many observers, Taiwanese voters decisively rejected the government’s phase-out of nuclear power, 59% [...]
