(Asheville, NC) — Citing nuclear security, reactor aging, and other concerns, the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) November 29th filed a legal challenge to Duke Energy's application to renew and extend the operating licenses of their McGuire and Catawba nuclear power stations for up to twenty more years. NIRS contends that Duke has not…
Ben Pearson from Greenpeace on meaning of the Bonn language on nuclear power and Kyoto,
Victory! Nuclear power is OUT of the Kyoto Protocol! (Greenpeace, )
More Than 70 U.S. Peace and Environmental Groups Support Kyoto Protocol Language to Prevent World-Wide Nuclear Power Proliferation, NIRS Press release. Read the Signed Letter.
CEE Bankwatch Issue #8, (pdf)
The recommendations offered by the Bush-Cheney Energy plan lack innovation and foresight and do not present viable long-term energy planning for the country as a whole. Paradoxically, many of its recommendations would also not provide short-term aid to California or similar victims of energy price fixing. This is despite the fact that the Bush administration…
It’s Not Too Late to Contact Your Government and ask that Nuclear Power not be Classified as a Form of Sustainable Energy at the CSD introductory message and an International Sustainable Energy Model (Global Resource Action Center for the Environment, )
Press Release on Bush-Cheney National Energy Tragedy, (NIRS and Environmental Advocates, )
Washington, DC. Sixty-five environmental, consumer and health groups from across the country urged Secretary of State Colin Powell and U.S. representatives to the Ninth United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD 9) talks to firmly reject any definition of nuclear power as a “sustainable” technology. In a March 13 letter to the Secretary, the groups…
121 arrested at anti-nuclear demonstration in The Hague. Press release,