Climate Crisis
Solar for none?
Trump’s EPA criminally cancelled Solar For All grants, an excellent climate solution and employment driver. A coalition of 14 Native American tribal governments were poised to deploy $100 million in solar infrastructure to more than 3,500 tribal homes, while training Native youth and veterans in a clean energy workforce that could serve their own communities.…
Read MoreCato Institute: Nuclear power’s hamster wheel
Accelerating climate change demands a stop to wasting precious little time along with human and financial resources being diverted from real solutions on nuclear power that’s going nowhere. The conservative Cato Institute’s Fall 2025 status report on “The Next Nuclear Renaissance?” provides a comprehensive status report and global overview, nuclear nation by nation. The report…
Read MoreSolar keeps growing
The following is information provided by the Sun Day Campaign. A review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data just released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reveals thatsolar provided almost 9% of total U.S. electrical generation in the first half of this year while wind + solar produced over one-fifth and the mix…
Read MoreWho Pays the Price for Nuclear’s Clean Energy Promise?
Nuclear has been promoted as a climate solution for an energy-hungry society looking to wean itself from oil and gas. But is it as clean as advocates say? Article published by ATMOS on 7/9/25. Words by Yessenia Funes Luminograms by Marton Perlaki (The unprecedented zombie reactor restart at Palisades in Michigan is featured.) Full article…
Read MoreHochul’s choice: Bought by the nuclear industry?
New York Governor Kathy Hochul is either in the pocket of the nuclear power industry or woefully ignorant about the technology itself. We suspect the former since there is ample empirical data to show that the choice she has made — to build a new nuclear power plant in New York State — is the…
Read MoreFL nuke threatens Miami drinking water supply
Florida’s Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station Units 3 and 4 are back in the news with “Miami’s Drinking Water Is Threatened by a Florida Nuclear Plant,” Bloomberg News, June 6, 2025 but behind the paywall. It’s about the billions of gallons of water required to cool the large twin nuclear reactors that are located 25…
Read MoreTELL CONGRESS ‘NO NUKES’!
During the March 24 webinar on nuclear power hosted by Massachusetts Peace Action, and featuring M.V. Ramana and Paul Gunter, participants were asked to complete an action item that sends a strong anti-nuke message to their members of Congress, urging them not to vote to allocate further public resources to nuclear power. Click this link,…
Read MoreBeyond Nuclear annual report
The Beyond Nuclear Annual Report for 2024, a brief overview of some of the highlights of our work last year, is now available for download here. The annual report focuses on our work to stop extreme reactor license renewals; to draw attention to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s reckless decision to ignore the likely impacts of…
Read MoreTrump, an offshore wind killer
Karl Grossman, professor of journalism at State University of New York/College at Old Westbury, author and Beyond Nuclear board member, has written a piece in Nation of Change outlining Trump’s dangerous stance on wind. “Among his many actions on Monday in his first day as U.S. president, Donald Trump ordered a ‘temporary withdrawal’ of any…
Read MoreCA wildfires: a warning to NRC on climate change
US Government Accountability Office warnings to Nuclear Regulatory Commission go unheeded For nuclear power plants, fire is considered a very significant contributor to the overall reactor core damage frequency (CDF), or the risk of a meltdown. Fire at a nuclear power station can be initiated by both external and/or internal events. It can start with…
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