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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Lobbyists belly up to the energy trough New energy legislation in Congress debates various terrible solutions	David Roberts	12 Jun 2007	Gristmill
This piece in the NYT is pretty depressing. It's about the main battles around the upcoming energy legislation. Here are the points of contention:Ethanol subsidiesCoal and nuclear subsidiesCAFE standardsOn pretty much all these issues, it's Big Money lobby vs. Big Money lobby, and every one of them is a distraction -- no help at best, a hindrance at worst. Where's the Big Efficiency lobby when you need it?
Topics: coal, energy, ethanol, legislation, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

Are Republican presidential candidates taking global warming seriously? Brownback's plan is not promising	David Roberts	23 May 2007	Gristmill
He hasn't released a detailed plan yet, but Republican presidential contender Sam Brownback gave a speech yesterday to the Set America Free coalition that outlined his thoughts on energy policy. (There's more info in this Greenwire story, but it's subscription only.) Republican candidates haven't talked about climate and energy as much as their Dem counterparts, but Brownback's comments are more or less representative. Consider this a critique, then, of mainstream Re ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, coal, elections, energy, ethanol, greenhouse-gas emissions, nuclear power, oil, politics (all these topics)

Another attempt to push nukes Using high gas prices to push for a rebirth	Jon Rynn	23 May 2007	Gristmill
In today's New York Times, President Gerald Ford's energy adviser, in an article entitled 'How to Win the Energy War,' tries to use higher gas prices and oil dependence as an excuse to build more nuclear reactors: The other major way to wean us from oil is to resume construction of nuclear power plants. Nuclear energy is the cleanest and best option for America's electric power supply, yet it has been stalled by decades of unproductive debate. Our current commercial nucle ...
Topics: energy, nuclear power, oil, politics (all these topics)

Something for everyone in the nuclear debate A good argument	John McGrath	03 May 2007	Gristmill
Via Brad Plumer, this might be the most honest, good-faith argument about nuclear power I've read in the last, oh, year or so. You can read Max Schulz's pro-nuclear argument here, and then read the anti-nuclear side by Bruce Smith and Arjun Makhijani. No surprise, I come down on the anti-nuclear side myself, but at least Schulz doesn't simply ignore or refuse to acknowledge the real risks of nuclear power (waste, proliferation, costs). And in his reply at the bottom ...
Topics: climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, nuclear power, politics, wind power (all these topics)

Nuclear shillery and the reporters who buy it Maddening	David Roberts	03 Apr 2007	Gristmill
I'm way, way, waaay behind on this one, but I nonetheless want to draw your attention to two pieces on the massive, ongoing PR push from the nuclear industry. The first is an editorial in the Columbia Journalism Review on the maddening phenomenon of mainstream news reporters accepting the claims of paid shills (i.e., Patrick Moore and Christie Todd Whitman) at face value, without making clear their relationship to the nuclear industry. The second is a more extensi ...
Topics: energy, lying liars, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

Why the sloppy love for nuclear? Just doesn't (or shouldn't) make sense for conservatives	John McGrath	22 Mar 2007	Gristmill
During his marathon live-blogging yesterday, David "Boss-man" Roberts wrote about the GOP love of nuclear power: 'Why are Republicans obsessed with this? It's mystifying. Don't they have anything else to talk about?' Well, they love clean coal too. The question to me has always been why alleged conservatives have so much time for nuclear when it doesn't align with one of their cherished principles: If "big-government nanny-state market interference&quo ...
Topics: energy, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

Split over nuclear versus renewables threatens EU global warming pact Spring summit underway	Robert Delfs	09 Mar 2007	Gristmill
From an article in the Guardian: Divisions over nuclear power and renewable energy threatened to derail the EU's campaign to assume a global leadership role in the fight against climate change at the bloc's spring summit which began last night. [...] But France, backed by several east European countries, insisted carbon-free nuclear power be included within the EU energy mix and rejected [German Chancellor] Angela Merkel's proposal to make a 20 percent target for ...
Topics: Angela Merkel, climate, energy, international politics, nuclear power, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Terry Tamminen: Nuclear energy and China's development China got troubles	David Roberts	14 Jan 2007	Gristmill
DR: Bush's token response to global warming is to argue for clean coal and nuclear power. To the extent he's involved in any international discussion, it's the Pacific pact, a trade deal with these emerging markets for old coal and nuclear technology. TT: Bush jumps in a long list of presidents of both parties who have not been able to deal with the [nuclear] waste issue in any meaningful fashion. And talk about a subsidized industry! Once upon a time we t ...
Topics: books, business, interview, nuclear power, oil, politics, Terry Tamminen, United States (all these topics)

Take a Drink Every Time He Says 'Nucular' Bush will talk up nuclear, hydrogen, and ethanol in State of the Union		30 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Take a Drink Every Time He Says "Nucular" Bush will talk up nuclear, hydrogen, and ethanol in State of the Union "We've got to wean ourselves off hydrocarbons, oil," said President Bush on Friday. Yup, you read that right. In an interview aired on CBS, the president said he would use this Tuesday's State of the Union address to decry "foreign oil" and offer up initiatives on alternate ...
Topics: hydrogen, news, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

Re-Spent, Ye Sinners Bush admin plans to fund new dawn for nuclear power		27 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Re-Spent, Ye Sinners Bush admin plans to fund new dawn for nuclear power Like an atomic Dr. Frankenstein determined to reanimate the corpse of the civilian nuclear-power industry, the Bush administration intends to allot $250 million in fiscal year 2007 to researching new ways to reprocess spent nuclear fuel -- technology largely abandoned in the 1970s as too dangerous. The funding is seen as a down payment on billions in fut ...
Topics: news, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

So Safe! So Clean! Bush accentuates nuke positives, inspires malefactors everywhere	Mark Peters	06 Dec 2005	Soapbox
George W. Bush developed an interesting habit this year when he talked about energy. In his speeches, words like "oil," "coal," and "natural gas" shivered in the dark with no adjectives, while "nuclear power" consistently got two. Bush used this spiffy phrase in, among other places, his State of the Union address and a spring press conference. And ...
Topics: nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

A Glowing Reception Bush travels to nuke plant to tout nuke subsidies, is well-received		23 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
A Glowing Reception Bush travels to nuke plant to tout nuke subsidies, is well-received Yesterday, President Bush became the first commander in chief in 26 years to visit a nuclear power plant in the U.S. (The last time, you may recall, was when President Carter visited Three Mile Island after the accident there. Good times, good times ...) Bush used the occasion to state unequivocally, "It is time for th ...
Topics: news, nuclear power, politics, United States (all these topics)

Subsidy Slickers Nuke subsidies being added to McCain-Lieberman climate bill		16 May 2005	Daily Grist
Subsidy Slickers Nuke subsidies being added to McCain-Lieberman climate bill The latest draft of the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act proposes hundreds of millions of dollars in new subsidies for the nuclear power industry, in the form of a cost-splitting arrangement that would have the feds shoulder half the expense of developing and getting regulatory approval for three new nuke-plant designs. The proposal (not yet ...
Topics: news, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

Reid Between the Mines Senate Democratic leader Reid is a friend to the mining industry		02 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Reid Between the Mines Senate Democratic leader Reid is a friend to the mining industry Sen. Harry Reid, the new leader of the Senate Democrats, knows full-well that his home state of Nevada isn't a liberal or environmental stronghold. Thus he has had to balance his party's political agenda with his state's economic interests, and one of those big interests is mining. Reid has repeat ...
Topics: Harry Reid, mining, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, toxics, waste (all these topics)

Yucca, Who Needs Ya? Nuclear advocates take back the whole 'Yucca is a necessity' thing		31 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Yucca, Who Needs Ya? Nuclear advocates take back the whole "Yucca is a necessity" thing Nuclear advocates have long insisted that the planned nuclear-waste repository at Nevada's Yucca Mountain is necessary before new nuclear reactors can be built, because on-site storage of waste is just too dangerous. But with Yucca's prospects (at least in the short term) looking dim, and the prospects for new ...
Topics: Nevada, nuclear power, politics, United States (all these topics)

The Fabulous Baker Boy President to bake up crisp decisions, answer environmental issue		12 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
The Fabulous Baker Boy President to bake up crisp decisions, answer environmental issue In an interview with The Wall Street Journal -- his first newspaper interview since winning re-election -- President Bush pledged to, among other things, renew the push for his long-stalled energy bill and aggressively promote nuclear power, saying he looked forward to "making good, crisp, sound decisions." Bush spoke o ...
Topics: nuclear power, politics, United States (all these topics)

Put Up Your Nukes Judge may override Washington state voters on Hanford initiative		02 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Put Up Your Nukes Judge may override Washington state voters on Hanford initiative An initiative on the Washington state ballot last month, which would prevent more waste from being dumped at the federal Hanford nuclear site in the state, will go before a federal judge today. Were there Diebold machines involved? A flurry of recounts? No. In fact, voters approved the measure by a greater than 2- ...
Topics: elections, nuclear power, politics, toxics, Washington (all these topics)

Bela-ruse Poor Belarusians returning to areas contaminated by Chernobyl		15 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Bela-ruse Poor Belarusians returning to areas contaminated by Chernobyl It's been 18 years since the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the Ukraine exploded and spewed forth a cloud of radiation that contaminated some 22 percent of neighboring Belarus. Now many poor Belarusian residents are returning to normal life there, foraging for mushrooms and planting crops in areas that critics say remain contaminated. Yuri Kuz ...
Topics: Belarus, nuclear power, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Sorry, No Vacancy Washington initiative blocks further nuke-waste dumping at Hanford		03 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Sorry, No Vacancy Washington initiative blocks further nuke-waste dumping at Hanford By a more than a 2-to-1 margin, Washington state voters passed Initiative 297, which blocks the U.S. Department of Energy from sending more nuclear waste to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the southern part of the state until current waste at the former nuclear-weapons facility is fully cleaned up. The measure ...
Topics: Department of Energy, nuclear power, politics, Washington (all these topics)

Cross Purposes Prominent Brit bishop booted from enviro group for advocating nuclear		22 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Cross Purposes Prominent Brit bishop booted from enviro group for advocating nuclear England's Reverend Hugh Montefiore -- member of the Church of England, former Bishop of Birmingham, and long-time champion of the environment -- has been forced to resign from the board of Friends of the Earth for arguing that nuclear power is the only viable way to avoid the oncoming catastrophe of global warming. Montefiore's argument a ...
Topics: climate, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

Malign Neglect Republican Leaders at Odds Over Nuclear Worker Compensation Program		01 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Malign Neglect Republican Leaders at Odds Over Nuclear Worker Compensation Program The Bush administration is clashing with Republicans in Congress over a compensation program for workers at nuclear facilities sickened by exposure to radiation, asbestos, and other toxic substances. As of July, the Energy Department had paid out only $700,000 of the $95 million it has received since the program was created, ...
Topics: nuclear power, politics, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Mine, All Mine EPA and BLM fight over how to protect groundwater from massive Nevada mine	Amanda Griscom	10 Mar 2004	Muckraker
In an age when corporate America can't see past its quarterly results, it's hard to imagine how the world's largest gold producer is going to manage the environmental damage caused by one of its mines hundreds or even thousands of years into the future. Future site of the Phoenix mine. Photo: Lighthawk, Great Basin Mine Watch. That's the challenge Newmont Mining Corp. faces as ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining, Muckraker, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Split-Level Nuclear Waste	Suzy Becker	02 Mar 2004	Ha.

Topics: health, nuclear power, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Oversight Out of Mind Bush Relaxes Safety at Nuke Facilities		29 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Oversight Out of Mind Bush Relaxes Safety at Nuke Facilities The Bush administration has a new plan to waive some safety standards at federal nuclear facilities. The administration apparently didn't like being directed by Congress in 2002 to strictly enforce safety standards at the nuke sites -- though, in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, you might have thought such a ste ...
Topics: Department of Energy, health, nuclear power, politics, Tennessee (all these topics)

Houston, We Have a Solution Supporters Claim $300 Billion Energy Plan Would Create 3.3 Million Jobs		15 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Houston, We Have a Solution Supporters Claim $300 Billion Energy Plan Would Create 3.3 Million Jobs A coalition called the Apollo Alliance released a report on Wednesday proposing and outlining a 10-year, $300 billion investment in alternative energy sources, which it claimed would create 3.3 million jobs and more than pay for it ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, elections, energy, nuclear power, placemaking, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

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