The 1,020-megawatt Unit 2 reactor at the Indian Point Energy Center closes for good Thursday, April 30, 2020, and 1,040-megawatt Unit 3 will close in April 2021
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Airlines and oil giants are on the brink. No government should offer them a lifeline | George Monbiot, via The Guardian
This crisis is a chance to rebuild our economy for the good of humanity. Let’s bail out the living world, not its destroyers.
Read More »‘Nature’ joins media outlets in a week of intensive reporting called ‘Covering Climate Now’ | Nature
For the second year running, we aim to focus attention on the need for urgent climate action. So in the Briefing this week, you’ll see more than the usual number of climate-change stories, although not exclusively. This year, the focus is on climate solutions.
Read More »War is NOT Green: on the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, Divest from the War Machine
Instead of spending $740 billion on the Pentagon budget every year, we should invest in a Green New Deal and cultivate our local peace economies #WarIsNotGreen
Read More »Silence of the Climate Watchdogs | Covering Climate Now
Fixated on the coronavirus, many newsrooms are missing brazen assaults on a livable climate.
Read More »Coronavirus Halts Street Protests, but Climate Activists Have a Plan | The New York Times
Dominique Palmer, 20, a Fridays for Future organizer in Britain, acknowledged the challenges of protesting online.
Read More »Wells Fargo joins megabank peers in announcing it’s ending Arctic oil investment | ADN
The bank's disclosure comes as the Trump administration takes steps to lease tracts in the refuge’s coastal plain, setting the stage for drilling after Congress approved it in 2017.
Read More »End Of The Status Quo | New Haven Independent
Where New Haven needs to go next on climate change ~ by Chris Schweitzer
Read More »Over 570 Groups Endorse Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez Fracking Ban Bills | Food & Water Watch
See the article in the Philly Inquirer, "Pundits say Democrats who want to ban fracking can’t win PA. Here’s why they’re wrong" by Wenonah Hauter, the executive director of Food & Water Watch.
Read More »Is the coronavirus epidemic China’s ‘Chernobyl moment’? | Global Voices
What could possibly link the Chinese city of Wuhan to Chernobyl, the site of one of the worst nuclear disasters in history? At first glance, not much, except that the Chinese term —- (the transcription of Chernobyl appears in simplified Chinese) has surged on Chinese social media when discussing the outbreak of COVID-19, the flu caused by the coronavirus first ...
Read More »Nuclear power and harm to animals | Beyond Nuclear International
Sea turtles continue to be captured and killed at a nuclear power plant in Florida -- a practice that has gone on for decades -- as the owner avoids installing an excluder device.
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