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Think natural gas is saving us from coal? Think again.

Carl Wurtz
March 13, 2019
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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Posted in News - Events bridge fuel, carbon, climate change, coal, emissions, natural gas, nuclear

California county slams the brakes on big solar

Sammy Roth / Los Angeles Times
March 8, 2019
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
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THE BIG PICTURE: Japan’s Nuclear Comeback

Sonal Patel / POWER Magazine
March 1, 2019
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
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Senate Briefing on Climate Change by MIT Pioneer Kerry Emanuel

Carl Wurtz
February 21, 2019
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
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Fossil fuel firms accused of renewable lobby takeover to push gas

The Guardian
February 12, 2019
Major fossil fuel companies and energy utilities have used their financial power to take control of key renewable energy lobby groups in Europe in an effort to slow the continent’s transition to clean energy, according to industry insiders. Big energy firms such as Total, Iberdrola, E.On and Enel have together adopted a dominant position in
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