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  • Reject the Exelon Takeover of Pepco

    Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work tes­ti­fied in D.C. against Exelon ener­gy cor­po­ra­tion’s takeover of Pep­co, elec­tric ser­vice provider to Wash­ing­ton, D.C. and Maryland.  This takeover is a bad deal for the Dis­trict of Colum­bia and is not in the pub­lic inter­est. It would hit DC ratepay­ers with high­er elec­tric­i­ty bills, would under­mine renew­able ener­gy and would not…

  • Radioactive Spikes from Nuclear Plants a Likely Cause of Childhood Leukemia

    - by Dr. Ian Fair­lie, Ecol­o­gist On 23rd August, The Ecol­o­gist pub­lished very clear evi­dence of increased can­cers among chil­dren liv­ing near nuclear pow­er sta­tions around the world, includ­ing the UK. The sto­ry sparked much inter­est on social media sites, and per­haps more impor­tant­ly, the arti­cle’s sci­en­tif­ic basis (pub­lished in the aca­d­e­m­ic peer-reviewed sci­en­tif­ic jour­nal the Jour­nal of Envi­ron­men­tal Radioac­tiv­i­ty) was down­loaded over 500…

  • Vermont Yankee: Out of the Fission and Into the Fire?

    - by Ann Dar­ling, The Safe and Green Campaign The Ver­mont Yan­kee nuclear pow­er sta­tion in south­east­ern Ver­mont will close in Decem­ber of this year after oper­at­ing for over 40 years. The own­er, Enter­gy Nuclear, is based in New Orleans and is the sec­ond largest nuclear pow­er com­pa­ny in the U.S. As a mem­ber of the Safe…

  • EPA: Carbon Rules Could Ensure Nuclear Power’s Survival

    [Anoth­er rea­son why the dirty ener­gy resis­tance needs to band togeth­er. ‑Josh] - by Julie Wer­nau, June 18, 2014, Chica­go Tribune Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency Admin­is­tra­tor Gina McCarthy said Tues­day that the fed­er­al agen­cy’s pro­posed car­bon rules are designed to boost nuclear plants that are strug­gling to compete. “There are a hand­ful of nuclear facil­i­ties that because…

  • Radioactive Leaks Found at 75% of US Nuke Sites

    - Asso­ci­at­ed Press, June 21, 2011, CBS Radioac­tive tri­tium has leaked from three-quar­ters of U.S. com­mer­cial nuclear pow­er sites, often into ground­wa­ter from cor­rod­ed, buried pip­ing, an Asso­ci­at­ed Press inves­ti­ga­tion shows. The num­ber and sever­i­ty of the leaks has been esca­lat­ing, even as fed­er­al reg­u­la­tors extend the licens­es of more and more reac­tors across the nation. Tri­tium,…

  • Biomass and Gas Incinerator Proposed for Vermont Yankee Nuke Site

    - by Mike Faher, June 3, 2014, Brat­tle­boro Reformer Select­board mem­bers are tout­ing the poten­tial ben­e­fits of new bio­mass pow­er plant — with the pos­si­bil­i­ty of a nat­ur­al-gas com­po­nent — that could be built at the Ver­mont Yan­kee site after the nuclear facil­i­ty shuts. Offi­cials expect to orga­nize a pub­lic forum to dis­cuss the dee­tails of a…