Climate Crisis
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists article “COP28 and the nuclear energy numbers racket”
The December 13, 2023 issue of Bulletin of Atomic Scientist’s article by Dr. Sharon Squassoni on the “COP28 and the nuclear energy numbers racket.”
Read MoreDubai COP28 Live Stream, 2:30 PM ET,12/01/2023
Samuel Lawrence Foundation’s First Friday / Live Stream from Dubai 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) December 01, 2023, 2:30 PM EST/ 11:30 AM PST Register/Watch/Archive Scandals continue to rock the United Nation’s 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) on climate crisis with the exposure of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) plot to use its host…
Read MoreUS to lead nuclear industry’s COP28 mission
Aside from the purely bad optics of the next global climate crisis conference being held in a major fossil fuel producing nation, John Kerry, former US Senator, Secretary of State and still Special Presidential Climate Envoy to the 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) in Dubai will be lobbying to triple the world’s installed generating capacity…
Read MoreNEIS Statement on the Legislature’s Partial Repeal of Illinois’ Nuclear Construction Moratorium, and Embrace of Small Modular Reactors
Thank you to everyone who took action as we forwarded action alerts from Nuclear Energy Information Service of Chicago (NEIS) over the past many weeks. Unfortunately, despite NEIS and its supporters’ best efforts, the Illinois state legislature partially repealed the state’s nuclear construction moratorium. Ironically enough, the state legislature’s unwise move came at the very…
Read MoreHelp defend new reactor moratorium!
See urgent action alert from David Kraft, director, Nuclear Energy Information Service of Chicago, below. If you reside in Illinois, please take action ASAP, and spread the word to everyone you know in Illinois. If you do not reside in Illinois, please forward this alert to folks you know there, ASAP. Kraft also got an…
Read MoreNRDC funding squeeze eliminates its mission as a public watchdog on nuclear pollution
The New York Times reports that major non-profit funders are cutting their financial support to once effective environmental organizations that have led the fight against toxic chemicals, nuclear contamination, the destruction of wildlife and desecration of their habitat in lieu of redirecting those resources to combating out-of-control climate crisis. This includes financially undermining those organizations’…
Read MoreNEIS ACTION ALERT! TAKE ACTION THIS WEEK! Uphold Governor Pritzker’s veto on SB76
[If you reside in Illinois, please take direct action. If you do not, please forward this alert to anyone you know in Illinois! Here is an excellent op-ed by Dave Kraft, director, NEIS, for additional info.: Lawmakers, keep moratorium on new nuclear power plants in Illinois The claim of benefits of small modular reactors are…
Read MoreExpediting SMR Construction?!
[Here is an audio recording of the meeting described below, provided by Kraig Schultz of Michigan Safe Energy Future-Shoreline Chapter in Grand Haven, MI. Public statements begin at the 55 minute mark of the recording. They came from: Schultz, MSEF; Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear; Mary Lampert, Pilgrim Watch, Massachusetts; Jan Boudart, Nuclear Energy Information Service…
Read MoreNEIS ACTION ALERT – IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED! Uphold Governor Pritzker’s veto on SB76, in order to preserve Illinois’s decades-long moratorium against new atomic reactors
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Please see below. If you reside in Illinois, please take direct action. If you don’t live in Illinois, please forward this action alert on to anyone and everyone you know who resides in Illinois, urging them to take action and to also spread the word. As you will see in a…
Read MoreNUKESPEAK: “Clean” hydrogen from nuclear?!
[Image: Front cover of the 1983 book NUKESPEAK, republished with a new introduction post-Fukushima.] Orwell is spinning so fast in his grave, he could be hooked up to a turbo-generator and qualify for clean energy production tax credits (a paraphrase of a 2006 joke by then-Congressman, now U.S. Senator, Ed Markey (Democrat-Massachusetts), about DOE nuclear…
Read More