“Charles Komanoff was for decades an expert witness for groups working against nuclear plants, delivering blistering critiques so effective that he earned a spot at the podium when tens of thousands of protesters descended on Washington in 1979 over the Three Mile Island meltdown. “Komanoff would go on to become an unrelenting adversary of Diablo

California’s power is expensive and polluting – but doesn’t have to be. The state of California plans to replace Diablo Canyon Power Plant (DCPP) mostly with Wyoming coal-fired generation. The source of the replacement power will remain hidden until 2025, when Californians can’t stop the state. As a nonprofit intervenor before the California Public Utilities

In a few weeks it will be one year since the article “California just hit 95% renewable energy. Will other states come along for the ride?” appeared in the Los Angeles Times. Its author, staff writer Sammy Roth, had learned that California briefly generated 95% of the electricity consumers were using from clean, renewable sources,

Using “incidental take” as a euphemism for “accidentally chopped to pieces”, the owners of Pine Tree Wind Farm all but admit it could be lethal for California Condors, a species of which only an estimated 500 individuals remain. From a notice filed in the Federal Register by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: “We have

“Feb 3 (Reuters) – Nearly 80 scientists and academics, including a former U.S. energy secretary, on Thursday urged Governor Gavin Newsom to delay closure of California’s remaining nuclear plant to comply with state laws on fighting global warming. ‘The threat of climate change is too real and too pressing to leap before we look,’ said