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Nuclear Bailouts in the American Jobs Plan Perpetuate Environmental Injustice

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November 29, 2017

Appeal from Japanese Anti-nuclear Activist Etsuji Watanabe: The Japanese Government Is Lying to the International Community: the Radiological Situation in and around Fukushima is NOT Safe
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July 19, 2017

Aboriginal people do not want a nuclear waste dump in South Australia

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July 26, 2021
For Immediate Release: July 26, 2021 MEDIA NOTE – NRC Licensing Decision Coming Soon Contacts: Karen Hadden, Executive Director, Sustainable Energy & Economic Development (SEED) Coalition, 512-797-8481 karendhadden@gmail.com Former State Rep. Lon Burnam, Public Citizen’s Texas Office, 817-721-5846, lonburnam@gmail.com The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) may complete a Safety Analysis and the Final Environmental Impact Statement…

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July 15, 2021
Economic Analysis Shows $10-50 Billion In Proposed Nuclear Subsidies Would Subvert Biden’s Infrastructure Plans; Best Investment for Jobs, Climate and the Economy is in Rapid Transition to Renewable Energy and Smart Electricity Grid, According to Expert WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new report shows why the best infrastructure investment for U.S. jobs, the climate, and the economy is in a rapid transition to renewable energy…

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June 17, 2021
Janie Scott, Nuclear Harm Reduction and Climate Justice Manager, Georgia-WAND Tim Judson, Executive Director, NIRS This week we commemorate Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the struggle for Black liberation in the US. Yesterday, Congress and President Biden officially designated Juneteenth a federal holiday. It is so named for the date—June 19th, 1865—when word of their liberation…

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May 26, 2021
For Immediate Release: May 26, 2021 Contact: Tim Judson, NIRS 301-270-6477, timj@nirs.org Lukas Ross, Friends of the Earth (202) 222-0724, lross@foe.org Cardin backs $50 billion nuke bailout Production tax credit for merchant reactors would hurt electricity consumers and slow renewables WASHINGTON– Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) this morning filed a nuclear bailout amendment to the Clean Energy for America Act,…

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April 15, 2021
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 12 April 2021 Download at www.climatefalsesolutions.org Register for telepress conference featuring experts and book authors on 15 April at 2pm EDT here https://forms.gle/dVpDWmoXRWo6wzRBA NEW BOOK UNCOVERS CRITICAL CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY FLAWS AHEAD OF EARTH DAY At a time when governments are rolling out climate change policies around the world, activists…

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April 01, 2021
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed the bill repealing the state’s $1.1 billion nuclear bailout yesterday. Ohioans have been fighting to stop and then repeal the bailout law (HB6), since 2019. Their struggle goes back even further, to 2014, when FirstEnergy launched into a series of four other failed nuclear and coal bailout schemes. It took…

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Nuclear Bailouts in the American Jobs Plan Perpetuate Environmental Injustice

Appeal from Japanese Anti-nuclear Activist Etsuji Watanabe: The Japanese Government Is Lying to the International Community: the Radiological Situation in and around Fukushima is NOT Safe

Aboriginal people do not want a nuclear waste dump in South Australia