The two sides may work together in Texas.

Step right up folks!

Imagine if NYC had a nuclear powerplant that was able to produce an abundance of high quality electricity for the city and sell the surplus at a profit that benefitted the area?!

They’re put in a tough spot here, because legal issues are not just a matter of what’s in front of you, they’re precedential. In addition, lawyers are expected to argue their side, failing to do so because you politically disagree with it can be grounds for being disbarred, even if that’s directed from above.

There are a million reasons for the justice department to assert legal defenses to challenges by a Petitioner arguing that the Army Corps did not do their due diligence. Environmental assessments and reports are simply INFORMATIONAL DOCUMENTS; that is, if they are prepared in a manner consistent with law, they pass…

Or better yet, the U.S. could bring the entire fossil fuel industry under national control in order to govern it directly and wind it down in a planned way.

Ecological justice is important, but so is not launching hundreds of missiles a day at your neighbor. That they didn’t kill many people is beside the point. It’s analogous to saying “yes I shot at those civilians, but they were wearing body armor because they were afraid of getting shot, so I knew they would probably…

I’ll just straight up say that there’s zero chance that new fossil fuel development stops by next year, and that we can’t hit the 1.5 degrees Celsius level without a whole ton of those “moonshot” carbon removal technologies working out. We’ll be lucky to keep it at 2 degrees Celsius without them.

Their tight hold on the technology for their covid-19 vaccines has made them billions of dollars.

Jaczko said when he was head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, there were 104 licensed reactors in the U.S. but the number is down to 94 now and will dip even further as more plants come up for retirement.

Idiots keep shutting down the greenest source of energy and then continue to whine about emissions. Wind and solar lol.

Advocates who have pushed for the closure, including Natural Resources Defense Council and Riverkeeper, have pointed to a woeful safety record, the plant’s potential as a terrorism target, and the risk a Fukushima-type disaster poses to millions living in the metro area.

It’s environmental harm reduction. It’s not going to cure all the ills of factory farming, but it will have some effect on emissions. While people are starting to realize the outsize impact of factory farming on the environment, I’ve yet to hear “Ugh, I can’t have that burger, the carbon footprint is too big”. I do…

Choosing Mark Z Jacobson as a source is bad idea - although he is oddly popular among media types, his work led to an almost unprecedented rebuke from 21 top energy researchers in the pages of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in 2017. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/landmark-100-pe…

Even better, “approximately 570 gigawatts of this proposed capacity has requested to interconnect and come online before the end of 2025,” the report says.

But the treated water still contains tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. Research published last year found other isotopes as well. That means the water is technically radioactive, which … doesn’t sound great, you must admit.

Good take, I do agree. What we can challenge most appropriately I think with this infrastructure bill is its emphasis on arguably egregious subsidization of a superior technology that has already proven itself to have its costs and prices naturally being driving down AND being committed to short and long term by an…

We’ve got a whole host of infrastructure problems that don’t neccisarily have much to do with climate change. We could go zero emission tomorrow, but if the tunnels between NYC and the mainland collapse it’ll still ratfuck telecommunications for a quarter of the US.

I’ve got a few criticisms of the various viewpoints expressed by people in this article. To start, there seems to be an expectation that the first monetary policy to be proposed by the new administration should fix every problem under the sun. There are some things money can fix, but there are also a lot of things…