Commentary & Opinion

February 26, 2010 Nuclear energy is the future

Source:Idaho Mountain Express

For far too long, one of our most promising alternative energy options has been left to languish—nuclear energy. Nuclear power should be a central, key part of our national energy strategy. It is encouraging that the President's...

February 23, 2010 Pro & Con: Should taxpayers subsidize loan guarantees for nuclear power?

Source:Atlanta Journal Constitution

Is all the hoopla over solar and wind energy finally ending? One can only hope, now that President Barack Obama has come out strongly in support of nuclear power, with loan guarantees to build two new reactors at the Vogtle plant...

February 17, 2010 The Clean Energy Gold Rush

Source:Michael Northrop, The Huffington Post

Of the 10 largest wind power companies in the world, the United States has one -- General Electric. Of the world's 10 largest solar companies, we have two -- First Solar and SunPower - but almost all their manufacturing is in...

February 8, 2010 Road map to a balanced energy-climate bill

Source:Politico

Weeks of speculation about the president’s commitment to an energy-climate bill ended with the above words. Next up: weeks of speculation about whether this was a wise decision. Not acting now may appeal to some, but several...

February 8, 2010 Addressing Global Warming: Retrain Coal Workers for Green Jobs

Source:Mary Ellen Harte & John Harte, The Huffington Post

A perfect storm of factors are massing against continued coal burning, and given the catastrophic consequences of current and future climate change, it's coming none too soon. After more than a century of coal mining, the most...

February 6, 2010 Bring Back Van Jones! Blindsiding Clean Energy with Dirty Coal

Source:Jeff Biggers, The Huffington Post

If President Obama's brilliant green jobs administrator hadn't been hounded out of office in a bizarre witch hunt last fall, we would be engaged in an exciting discussion about pursuing a just transition to a clean energy economy...

January 20, 2010 The Coal Ash Case - Editorial

Source:New York Times

Just more than a year ago, one billion tons of toxic coal sludge broke loose from a containment pond belonging to the Tennessee Valley Authority, burying hundreds of acres of Roane County in eastern Tennessee and threatening...

January 19, 2010 Our Choice: A glimpse into Al Gore’s new solution’s based book on climate change

Source:Richard Barr

I am 61 years old. I was 21 in ‘69 as the Jackson Brown song goes. I participated in the first Earth Day. I was a block organizer for a recycling program. I was also a pacifist and virulently anti-war. As I matured I...[more]

January 15, 2010 “DOOMSDAY CLOCK” MOVES ONE MINUTE AWAY FROM MIDNIGHT

Source:Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS)

Citing a more “hopeful state of world affairs” in relation to the twin threats posed by nuclear weapons and climate change, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) is moving the minute hand of its famous Doomsday Clock one...[more]

January 15, 2010 Guest editorial: Environment must be guarded

Source:Tennessean.com

When over 1 billion gallons of coal waste was released to the Emory River from the Kingston TVA power plant in less than one hour in December 2009, TVA's world changed. So much for the industry's "clean coal" ad campaign.

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