Nukes Mess With Texas
Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons wants to make Texas the dumping ground for as much of America's nuclear waste as he can.
Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons wants to make Texas the dumping ground for as much of America's nuclear waste as he can.
Bernie Bulkin | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
While in the US we have been regulating and making decisions about electricity mostly on a state level, things are becoming more interconnected.
Jon Soltz | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics
Congress is about to throw $369 million (on a down-payment of $2 billion) for a dozen F-22 fighter jets that even the Pentagon doesn't want.
Reuters | Posted 06.07.2009 | Green
The Obama administration said Thursday it wanted to officially terminate the Yucca Mountain nuclear storage waste site and instead spend $197 million ...
Global Post | Jonathan Adams | Posted 05.21.2009 | World
NANTIAN VILLAGE, Taiwan -- They tried sending it to North Korea. They tried sending it to China. Now, they're trying to send it to this remote sea...
New York Times | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics
Nothing makes the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, madder than folks pushing for the storage of nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Mr. Re...
Jimmy Seidita | Posted 04.30.2009 | Green
The 1987 moratorium on new nuclear plants in Illinois signaled that going nuclear was a huge mistake. It's made a mess of our electric system, our regulatory system, and worst of all, the state's economy.
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green
Cut off from Wall Street, hordes of nuke lobbyists will descend like radioactive locusts on this gargantuan stimulus package. They must be stopped.
Johann Hari | Posted 04.13.2009 | World
The people our governments are labeling as "one of the great menaces of our times" have an extraordinary story to tell -- and some justice on their side.
Javier Sierra | Posted 11.24.2008 | Green
Because of its extraordinary number of sun hours per year and its predominant winds, New Mexico could be turned into an El Dorado of clean, alternative, renewable energy.
Steven Crandell | Posted 06.26.2008 | Green
Under the guise of concern over climate change, some ask us to re-consider our aversion to new nuclear power, ignoring the same old problems that have stopped any plants from being commissioned since 1979.
Carl Pope | Posted 10.10.2009 | Green