NYTimes: Nuclear Power Can Save the World

Joshua S. Goldstein, Staffan A. Qvist and Steven Pinker / New York Times
As young people rightly demand real solutions to climate change, the question is not what to do — eliminate fossil fuels by 2050 — but how. Beyond decarbonizing today’s electric grid, we must use clean electricity to replace fossil fuels in transportation, industry and heating. We must provide for the fast-growing energy needs of poorer
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New Report Debunks Narrative of an Imminent “New Energy Economy”

Norah Kenney / Manhattan Institute
NEW YORK, NY – In a new Manhattan Institute report, senior fellow Mark Mills addresses the popular but problematic idea driving the Green New Deal and similar policy proposals: that America is on the verge of an energy revolution—akin in scale and scope to the tech revolution of Silicon Valley—that will enable 100% replacement of
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Experts: Nuclear subsidies likely for Ohio plants

Dan Shingler / Crain's Cleveland Business
Akron’s FirstEnergy Solutions (FES) is still on track to shutter its Davis-Besse and Perry nuclear plants in 2020 and 2021, respectively, but some observers now predict the company will get a state bailout for the plants instead. The company is hoping the state will grant what are known as zero emissions credits to the plants,
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Perry announces $3.7 billion to support making nuclear “cool again”

Matt Kempner / The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Trump administration on Friday doubled down on its backing of Georgia’s troubled Plant Vogtle expansion project, approving billions of dollars in new federal loan guarantees.  U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry and other state and federal officials came to the site south of Augusta to offer support for the only nuclear power project still underway
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Think natural gas is saving us from coal? Think again.

Carl Wurtz
Researchers have found the prospects for natural gas to serve a “bridge fuel” for lowering carbon emissions are limited. Dr. Christine Shearer, John Bistline, Mason Inman and Steven J. Davis of the University of California – Irvine’s Department of Earth System Science write natural gas alone is incapable of bringing about “a significant reduction in
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