2020 Set Records for US Climate Mayhem
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported a total of 22 major disasters, defined as each causing at least $1 billion in damage, swept the US last year, up
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Stimulus deal provides $11 billion in new funding for nuclear
Congress has moved to fund clean energy—including $11 billion for nuclear energy and $6 billion for CCUS—and phase out a class of potent planet-warming chemicals and provide billions of dollars
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San Jose bans natural gas in historic move to limit emissions
San Jose approved a ban on the use of natural gas in nearly all new construction, making history as the largest US city to do so. The ban takes effect
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Boris Johnson’s green plan puts advanced nuclear in top three
Boris Johnson, the UK Prime Minister, penned an oped in the Financial Times calling for a 12 billion-pount, 10-point plan to effect Britain’s green recovery. Johnson wants to create 250,000
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DOE announces funding for three advanced reactor builds
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected two teams—one led by TerraPower in partnership with GE Hitachi, building a 345 MWe sodium fast reactor with a molten salt energy
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Making Nuclear Energy Cool
Kärnfull Energi is a new, hip and very climate-focused Swedish utility that recently launched offering Swedes a 100% nuclear energy option. They are neither building nor generating new nuclear power,
Birth of a new discipline, needed to address climate change
Stanford University announced, in a webinar hosted on September 28th, 2020 their intent to form a new interdisciplinary academic area called Macro Energy Systems. The aim of Macro-Energy Systems is
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California will phase out sales of gas-powered cars by 2035
Governor Gavin Newsom, issued an executive order to require all new cars sold to be zero-emission vehicles by 2035 and threw his support behind a ban on the controversial use
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GE exits coal to focus on wind and nuclear
General Electic, opened the first AC coal-fired power plant in the United States in 1902 and spent the following century becoming a leader in manufacturing these plants both in the
Finance Experts Are Ringing the Alarm About Climate Change
Mindy Lubber, CEO and president of Ceres, perhaps the leading corporate sustainability non-profit focused on building business support for acting on climate, announced the issuance of a major report on
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