Obama Administration To Announce Loans For Nuclear Power
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A Quiet but Huge No Nukes Triumph
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 12.28.2009 | Green
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In the wake of Copenhagen, an unheralded but hard-fought No Nukes victory has moved us closer to a green-powered Earth. It happened in upstate New York.
When More Is Less: "Redundancy" May Actually Reduce Nuclear Security
Russ Wellen | Posted 12.16.2009 | World
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"The increased use of ski helmets has not led to decreases in head injuries in accidents on the slopes because many skiers with helmets just go faster down more treacherous terrain."
Curbing Carbon's Just the Tip of Our Great Green Leap
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 12.15.2009 | Green
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The epic fight over carbon emissions is barely the tip of how we survive. Mother Earth demands that fossil/nukes be transcended. This green-powered leap defines our technological, economic and ecological survival.
Nuclear Power's Second Act?
Michael Rose | Posted 12.07.2009 | Technology
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Let's hope the delegates heading to Copenhagen to create a new energy future remember the problems of the past.
Storm Front: An Interview With the Nation's Foremost Climate Scientist James Hansen
Jerry Cope | Posted 12.02.2009 | Green
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I think that we have passed the level at which you're going to get effects that we do not want or that we want our children to have to bear.
Nuclear Power Gains Support From Unlikely Places
washingtonpost.com | Anthony Faiola | Posted 11.24.2009 | Green
Nuclear power -- long considered environmentally hazardous -- is emerging as perhaps the world's most unlikely weapon against climate change, with the...
Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant -- New Report on Competitiveness in Clean Tech
Jesse Jenkins | Posted 11.20.2009 | Green
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A major new report released today is the first to comprehensively benchmark the competitiveness positions of the United States and key Asian challengers in the global clean energy race.
Nuclear Renaissance? Not in the U.S.A.
Larry Coben | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green
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There is no nuclear renaissance -- at most a faint glimmer of hope for the end of a long nuclear dark age. Initial drafts of climate change and energy legislation do little to promote nuclear development.
Nuclear Power In Colorado: Does The State Have Enough Water To Support Nuclear Plants?
The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 11.05.2009 | Denver
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Some water experts warn the upper Colorado River is an endangered species if current residential growth patterns and water consumption patterns contin...
Iran's Political Crisis Blocks Nuclear Deal
nytimes.com | MICHAEL SLACKMAN | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
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CAIRO - Iran's leadership has once again equivocated after agreeing to a deal that would ease its nuclear standoff with the West. But this time, that ...
Western Slope Uranium Mill: Only State Needs To Approve Before Ground Can Break
The Denver Post | Bruce Finley | Posted 10.27.2009 | Denver
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A Canadian company's push to build the United States' first new conventional uranium mill since the Cold War has cleared local hurdles -- despite envi...
Japanese Firms To Develop Small Nuclear Reactors
breitbart.com | Posted 10.25.2009 | Technology
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Toshiba Corp. is developing an ultra-compact reactor with an output of about 10,000 kilowatts and has started procedures for approval in the United S...
What? Stewart Brand, Creator of The Whole Earth Catalog, Now Endorses Nuclear Power, Genetic Engineering and Big Cities!
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
Cities innovate faster as they grow bigger. They create enormous problems, but they also create solutions faster. Cities seem to know how to get out of their own way.
Green River Nuclear Power Proposal Sparks Concerns Over Water Use
The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 10.21.2009 | Denver
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Conservation groups and at least one federal agency are raising serious questions about a water grab for a proposed nuclear power plant near Green Riv...
Killing Our Water: The Hidden Cost of Dirty Energy
John DeCock | Posted 10.15.2009 | Green
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Perhaps the biggest challenge in changing human behavior to address the reality of climate change is connecting impacts to every day life. But t...
Is the Climate Bill Being Fossil-Nuked?
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green
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If you think pushing nukes, oil wells and coal mines to "prevent global warming" is counter-intuitive, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Green News Report -- October 13, 2009 (Audio)
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green
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IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Rising waters, shrinking glaciers; Slouching to Copenhagen; A Republican breaks ranks? ... PLUS: Even energy companies are...
How Senate Dems Should Lure GOP to a Climate Bill
David Roberts | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green
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If the Democrats are going to compromise on the climate change bill, they should secure real commitments in return. And they should compromise with money, not architecture.
Nukes Mess With Texas
Carl Pope | Posted 10.10.2009 | Green
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Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons wants to make Texas the dumping ground for as much of America's nuclear waste as he can.
North Korea May Return To Nuclear Talks
AP | Posted 10.07.2009 | World
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PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea's leader is offering to return to multinational disarmament talks in a renewed effort to draw Washington in...
Montrose County Uranium Mill: County Commissioners Approves Permit
coloradoindependent.com | David O. Williams | Posted 11.30.2009 | Denver
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MONTROSE -- It began with the audience turning, facing the flag and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Just over an hour later, a special Montrose Cou...
Boxer-Kerry Climate Bill Greenwashes Nuclear Power
Daniel Kessler | Posted 11.30.2009 | Green
The bill's nuclear section reads like it was lifted off the Nuclear Energy Institute's (NEI) website, despite its lack of veracity. Nuclear power is unsafe, uneconomical & unnecessary.
Exelon Quits Chamber Of Commerce Over Climate Change Legislation
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.29.2009 | Business
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has lost another member because of its opposition to climate change legislation, reports the Washington Post. The natio...
Colorado Democratic Lawmakers Ally Against Mesa County Nuclear Storage
Posted 11.26.2009 | Denver
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Colorado's senators and Rep. John Salazar sent a letter to Secretary of Energy Steven Chu this week urging him to remove a Mesa County storage site fr...
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