In Climate Progress - Posted 4 days ago

Energy efficiency retrofits can provide a real help for construction unemployment explains CAP's Bracken Hendricks, who was the founding Executive Dir...

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In Environmental Economics - Posted 1 week ago

President Barack Obama's 2011 budget calls for an array of regulations, subsidies and taxes aimed at cutting emissions of greenhouse gases, even as a ...

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In Treehugger - Posted 1 week ago

Prominent environmental organization Friends of the Earth has already made clear its opposition to the Obama Administration's support for the nuclear ...

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In Treehugger - Posted 1 week ago

16 gigawatts is a lot of power. The average nuclear power plant in operation today provides less than just one gigawatt of power (I believe the averag...

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In Science Blog - Posted 2 weeks ago

On February 16, President Barack Obama announced loan guarantees totaling more than $8 billion for two new light-water reactors in Georgia, part of an...

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In Switchboard, from NRDC - Posted 2 weeks ago

Rick Smith is the Executive Director of Environmental Defence CanadaTomorrow, in Washington, DC, Canada's Premiers will meet with U.S. Governors t...

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In NEI Nuclear Notes - Posted 3 weeks ago

In what we might call a bid for equal time, we roamed around looking for some stories that took a more critical view of the Vogtle loan guarantees. ...

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In Open Congress: Congress Gossip Blog - Posted 3 weeks ago

The White House and congressional Dems will be releasing a newly negotiated health care bill on Monday that they hope will form the basis of legislati...

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In Greenpeace Weblogs - Posted 3 weeks ago

Of all the nuclear waste France has sent to Russia since 2006 for reprocessing, less than 10% has ever been sent back. That s 3,090 tonnes out of 33,...

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In WattHead - Posted 3 weeks ago

With rising anxiety about mounting federal deficits, President Obama declared a freeze on all non-defense discretionary spending in his latest budget ...

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