Articles about U.S. Department of Energy

• 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…

  Energy and Climate

  

  by Adam Stein & Jameson McBride
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  • Energy and Climate
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    by Adam Stein

  If California Is Serious about Its Clean Energy Future, Shutting Down Diablo Canyon Needs to Be Reconsidered

• Can NRC Reform Itself?

  This week, I had the privilege of introducing a webinar that Breakthrough hosted with Third Way entitled Forging…

  Energy and Climate

  

  by Ted Nordhaus

• CONGRESSIONAL LETTER: The Breakthrough Institute Urges Congress to Include Nuclear in New Federal Tax Credit

  Berkeley, Calif. — Today, the Breakthrough Institute’s Sr. Energy Analyst, Jameson McBride, and Sr. Nuclear Analyst,…

  Energy and Climate

  

  by Jamie Livingston
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  • Energy and Climate
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    by Murefu Barasa

  How Might Africa Transition to Renewable Energy?

• Agricultural Appropriations Update

  Since early January, Breakthrough’s agriculture team has been busy developing and submitting appropriations requests…

  Food and Agriculture

  

  by Caroline Grunewald
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  • Energy and Climate
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    by Adam Stein

  Blog: Treadmill Decarbonization Doesn’t Help
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    by Ted Nordhaus

  The Folly of Mann
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  • Energy and Climate
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    by Alex Gilbert

  We Need Both Nuclear and Renewables to Protect the Climate
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  • Energy and Climate
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    by Erik Olson

  Bringing Down Dams Doesn’t Have to Threaten Climate Goals
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  • Energy and Climate
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    by Erik Olson

  It’s Time to Take Geothermal Energy Seriously
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  • Energy and Climate
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    by Zeke Hausfather

  COVID-19 to Accelerate US Coal Decline
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  • Energy and Climate
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    by Zeke Hausfather & Lauren Anderson

  Trump's War on Coal
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  • Energy and Climate
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    by Lauren Anderson

  PG&E’s Problem Isn’t Corporate Greed
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    by Breakthrough Staff

  After Magic Asterisks: Top Breakthroughs of 2018
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  • Energy and Climate
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    by Ted Nordhaus

  RIP Transatomic Power
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  • Energy and Climate
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    by Michael Goff

  Why Bans of Internal Combustion Engines Don’t Make Sense
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  • Energy and Climate
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    by Jameson McBride

  On Supporting CCS