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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