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The World Won’t Get To Net Zero Emissions Without Nuclear Power

R-Squared Energy

Any time I write about nuclear power, it evokes passionate responses from readers. That was certainly the case following my previous article, Nuclear Power Could Cut The World’s Carbon Emissions In Half. There is always a contingent who are convinced that all we need is solar power. Where is nuclear power growing?

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EU Scientists and Politicians Clash Over Gas and Nuclear as ‘Sustainable’ Investments

DeSmogBlog

The European Union’s scientific and political communities are locked in a battle over whether gas and nuclear can be considered green investments. Between March and July 2020, nuclear lobbies met with EU representatives twice as often as they did in 2018, according to the non-governmental organization Reclaim Finance.

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Cancer Alley Activist Sharon Lavigne Among Goldman Environmental Prize Winners for 2021

DeSmogBlog

Kimiko Hirata, 50, fought coal plant construction in Japan following the 2011 meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Lavigne got her start in the environmental movement after attending a school board meeting in 2015, where she met members of a local organization called H.E.L.P. Her parents organized in St.

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Power to the People. Action Plan for 2017 & Beyond.

Earth Gratitude

Anti-Nuclear Power Plant Rally on 19 September 2011 at Meiji Shrine Outer Garden. Power to the People! Support a ban on nuclear weapons. Support clean politics and will work, through the power of social media, to promoting truth, and exposing lies and deceit as quickly as possible.

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The Future(s) of Fossil Fuels - 2020

Mr. Sustainability

Then, the energy industry worried that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) wouldn’t renew its production deal with non-member countries, causing increased production and negative pressure on crude prices. State interests also intervene with political ambition, though Norway and China appear to be setting the stage.

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President Biden Names Richard Glick as FERC Chair

GreenTechMedia

That order, which is facing multiple legal challenges and is still in final stages of implementation , could eventually force solar, wind and nuclear power resources out of the market across PJM’s 11-state territory, and has led states including New Jersey, Maryland and Illinois to consider departing it entirely.

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