Ted Nordhaus bravely calls out the deceptive tactics used by anti-nuclear activists—some operating as academics with cover from similarly duplicitious “peer reviewers,” to promote what are ideologic viewpoints unsupported by
China’s most recent five-year plan aims to increase Chinese nuclear power generation capacity to 70 gigawatts by 2025, up from 50 gigawatts. It appears that Chinese leadership has begun to
Biden can solve multiple problems facing the U.S. by investing in clean energy climate solutions, according to Todd Allen and Suzy Hobbs Baker—and he appears on track to do so.
Continue readingInvestments in nuclear energy could help solve the economic and climate crises
Bill Gates discusses what he calls the Green Premium, which is the extra costs that it takes for us to transition all the way to clean energy, from dirty energy
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
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
Continue readingStimulus deal provides $11 billion in new funding for nuclear
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
Continue readingSan Jose bans natural gas in historic move to limit emissions
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
Continue readingBoris Johnson’s green plan puts advanced nuclear in top three
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
Continue readingBirth of a new discipline, needed to address climate change
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
Continue readingCalifornia will phase out sales of gas-powered cars by 2035