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UK greens in media uproar over nuclear energy
A television program interviews environmental leaders endorsing nuclear energy (NucNet) A group of environmentalists across the world believe that, in order to save the planet, humanity must embrace the very science and technology they once so stridently opposed. A key group of green leaders has changed their minds about nuclear energy... [read more]
Green VS. Green, Part 1
By Breakthrough Senior Fellow Siddartha Shome Denmark Dispute Greens tout Denmark as a renewable mecca, but Sweden -- powered largely by hydro and nuclear -- has a far less carbon intense energy mix. Here's a pop quiz. A, B, C, and D are four rich industrialized countries in Western Europe with similar living standards. Country A's... [read more]
The climate bill version of “Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough”
My colleague David Roberts at Grist has a provocative post, “Leaning forward: Why the American Power Act is worth fighting for.” It is sort of the climate change equivalent of Lori Gottlieb’s even more provocative best-seller. The perfect climate bill that could get 60 votes in the Senate simply doesn’t exist. I think Roberts’... [read more]
Principle Trumps Pragmatism: Grassroots Greens Campaign Against Clean Energy, American Power Act
As the expanse of the Gulf slick widened this week and climate advocates reckoned with an American public focused on more urgent risks closer to their front doors, 15 big activist organizations and a coalition of 200 grassroots advocacy groups from across the country, many of them green, lashed the American Power Act. Greenpeace last... [read more]
Back to basics… climate legislation principles matter
In the will they, won’t they, those fighting for climate change mitigation wait to see whether Kerry-Graham-Lieberman will drop a climate bill and, if they do so, what will it contain. There are many ways to judge what comes out but the simplest and, for me, most important is to consider basic principles. At their core, just six words... [read more]
As the Earth Turns: How Environmentalism Has Evolved
When Earth Day was first celebrated 40 years ago today, environmental distress was in our face. Rivers caught fire, oil spills fouled U.S. shores, toxic waste dumps proliferated, and Los Angeles seemed permanently wreathed in smog. Now we worry more about things we don’t see — runoff and waste from farms, growing carbon concentrations... [read more]
Is Nuclear Green? A Question for Earth Day
Forty years ago, we chose this day in April to express our concern for the state of the planet. At the time, people were worried about air pollution, water pollution and the threat that the “population explosion” was going to overrun the planet’s resources. Where energy was concerned, we worried instead about fouling... [read more]
The Mark: Why U.S. environmentalists should support offshore drilling
Last week, President Obama shocked environmentalists by opening millions of acres of the American continental shelf to oil and gas drilling. The announcement reminded me of a backpacking trip I took to Malaysian Borneo several years ago. Stranded in the sweltering city of Kota Kinabalu with a day to kill, I wandered inside the state... [read more]
Pinion Ridge uranium mill under fire
Environmental groups file multiple legal challenges This blog post is an edited version of an article published in Fuel Cycle Week, V9:N366, March 3, 2010, by International Nuclear Associates, Washington, DC. The Sheep Mountain Alliance (SMA), a Telluride, Colo., environmental group, and its legal counsel, the Energy Minerals Law Center... [read more]
Environmental Advocates Are Cooling on Obama
The NYT reports that environmentalists are slowly giving up on Obama as he inexplicably hands over vast swathes of taxpayer money to the moribiund nuclear power industry and professes belief in (non-existant) clean coal - Environmental Advocates Are Cooling on Obama. There has been no more reliable cheerleader for President Obama’s... [read more]
Worst (green) Superbowl commercial ever — or best?
I’m glad the Saints won, but I must say my first reaction to this commercial by Audi was not positive: I’m a big fan of humor but … … I’m not sure the German car company understands that the idea of “Green Police” they are spoofing is, in fact, precisely what many conservatives in this country actually think is the primary reason... [read more]
Study| Electric Cars Show “Great Promise” in Fight Against Global Warming
Kyocera's employee parking lot, San Diego. The solar panels on the roofs generates power to charge plug-in cars during the work day. Photo by Envision Solar. A new study by Environment America finds that electric vehicles (EVs) could do a lot to fight global warming and clean up the urban smog that contributes to respiratory and heart... [read more]
"What Keeps You Up at Night?"
Lou Rappaport of Blank Rome asked me a disturbing question the other day at the MAC Alliance Conference in Philadelphia. On the face of it, Lou's question was a simple one: "What keeps you up at night?" We were interrupted before I could answer, but Lou's question lingered with me. In fact, it kept me up the past couple of nights.... [read more]
Climate Change Causing Cognitive Dissonance For Long Time Anti-Nuclear Campaigners
I am a strong believer in the idea that dumping roughly 20 billion tons of gaseous garbage into the atmosphere every year from fossil fuel combustion is a very bad idea. There are some details in widely used climate models that can be called into question. There are certainly some of the gases are natural substances that are released in... [read more]
Nuclear-phobia
Suppose it were possible to build safe reactors. Reactors that simply would not kill people whether they were operated in a correct or incorrect way. Reactors that would never cause people to get cancer or any other radiation related illness. Suppose Reactors could be built more cheaply than renewable generation facilities. Suppose... [read more]
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