California’s largest county has banned the construction of large solar and wind farms on more than 1 million acres of private land, bending to the will of residents who say they don’t want renewable energy projects industrializing their rural desert communities northeast of Los Angeles. Thursday’s 4-1 vote by San Bernardino County’s Board of Supervisors

After the Great Tohoku Earthquake and tsunami, and ensuing crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March 2011, Japan issued stringent safety regulations and reviews that affected its entire 50-reactor fleet. It meant that as each Japanese nuclear reactor entered its scheduled maintenance and refueling outage, it could not returned to operation until restart

Dr. Kerry Emanuel, Professor of Atmospheric Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was one speaker in a presentation on the important role nuclear energy must play in addressing climate change. With Senators Cory Booker, Sheldon Whitehouse, and a roomful of Capitol Hill staffers in attendance for the February 4th briefing, Emanuel, whose research interests