Good news—last week, the multi-billion dollar bailout bill for dirty, dangerous nuclear reactors, S3560, was nixed by NJ Assembly Vincent Prieto. The legislation would have required New Jerseyans to pay an additional $300 million every year to subsidize PSEG and Exelon’s Salem and Hope Creek nuclear power plants in South Jersey. This is an incredible…
Court upholds Obama-era ban on new Grand Canyon uranium mines
Signers Oppose Crowding Out Renewables With “Old, Unsafe and Dying” Energy WASHINGTON, D.C.///October 11, 2017///More than 10,000 comments were submitted today for the record at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in opposition to Trump Administration plans for the Commission to enact massive bailouts of the coal and nuclear industry at the expense of renewable…
Image courtesy of Flickr. Irma and Harvey mark the first time on record that two category 4 or higher hurricanes have struck the U.S. mainland in the same year[1], let alone within one week of each other. To say this has been a destructive and costly hurricane season would be a gross understatement. Climate change…
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Comedian and political commentator, John Oliver, tackled the issue of radioactive nuclear waste during the August 20th episode of Late Week Tonight, and overall, did a fantastic job. No matter your political leanings, we can all agree that nuclear waste is bad. Oliver accurately defined nuclear waste as the toxic radioactive…
Image courtesy of Wikimedia. Hurricane Harvey has been declared the most intense rain event in U.S. history. Houston and surrounding areas experienced 50 inches of rain over four days. This historic flooding event has left at least 33 people dead, hundreds of thousands displaced, and entire communities without running water and electricity. And two nuclear…
Nevada’s Nuclear Dilemma: Trump Reignites the Debate Surrounding Yucca Mountain
United Nations Nuclear Weapons Ban Side Session-The Road Back to the Nuclear Brink On June 20 and 21, 2017, Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), joined by allied groups and hosted by the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations, presented two side sessions at the United Nations in New York City: Fission: Family,…
Overview Yucca Mountain is a ridge line composed of tuff (compressed volcanic ash) in Nevada, about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, not far from the California border. The site has been targeted for development as a burial site for the nation’s most highly radioactive waste since the 1980’s, but it has been vigorously…
Seattle Committee Responds to Standing Rock