Energy and Climate
Make clean energy cheap.
Access to affordable and reliable energy is absolutely essential for human development, but energy production takes a heavy toll on the environment. With demand for energy expected to grow for decades to come as developing nations emerge from poverty, substantial innovation into clean energy technologies will be necessary to achieve our ambitious goals for greenhouse gas emissions reductions.
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Energy and Climate
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Food and Agriculture
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One Thing the WaPo's Op-ed on Nuclear Safety Wasn't Built to Survive: Scrutiny
A rebuttal to Washington Post op-ed on wartime nuclear power plant safety
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Take a Deep Breath
Rani Franovich rebuts NPR coverage of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant firefight
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The Media’s Hysterical Coverage of Attacks on Ukraine’s Nuclear Power Plant
Last night, a firefight between Russian and Ukrainian forces at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant raised alarms for…
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Blog: NRC revises previously issued subsequent license renewal for existing nuclear power plants
In a surprising move, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) reversed license renewal approvals for two operating…
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Energy and Climate
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Blog: The Need for NEM Reforms and the False Argument About the Cost of Diablo Canyon
Rooftop solar has in many ways been a clean energy success story in California. Generous tax credits and net metering —…
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Blog: Takeaways from the Save Diablo Canyon Rally
Last weekend, a crowd of more than one hundred people filled the courtyard in front of the San Luis Obispo Superior…
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Closure of San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant Increased Emissions in California by 37 Million Metric Tons of CO2e
Closing nuclear power plants consistently increase emissions. As momentum is building for California to reconsider the…
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Energy and Climate
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Blog: Update from the Trenches of COP26 in Glasgow
There is a cold drizzle outside all day in Glasgow, but inside the convention center, the COP26 negotiations are hot…
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Energy and Climate
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Climate Change is Not Pollution Problem
Last week the Supreme Court announced that it would hear an appeal to the DC Circuit Court’s rejection of the Trump…
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Energy and Climate
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Can NRC Reform Itself?
This week, I had the privilege of introducing a webinar that Breakthrough hosted with Third Way entitled Forging…
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Blog: The New IEA Report Shows How We Are Flattening the Curve of Future Emissions
The new World Energy Outlook 2021 from the International Energy Agency (IEA) shows how the world is making progress on…
