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At the last minute, the Illinois State Legislature passed The Future Energy Jobs Bill (SB 2814) with less than an hour remaining in the legislative session, allowing Exelon’s Clinton and Quad Cities nuclear power plants to remain open, saving 4,200 jobs ...read more

A Federal judge asked the government to look at decommissioning and dismantling four dams on the lower Snake River near the Tri-Cities in Washington State in order to save salmon runs. But it would take about 25 years to complete, assuming no real challenge ...read more

One lesson that this presidential election has taught us is that in the 21st century, messaging matters more than substance. Just ask the President-elect. But while the messaging industry overvalues itself, companies that produce actual stuff don’t know ...read more

Today is Utilities United Against Scams Day, supported by members of the water, gas and electric industries to fight against scammers and to educate about how to protect oneself. Don’t be fooled by someone calling and threatening to shut off your power ...read more

Under a Trump Presidency, U.S. climate change policy and goals will evaporate, as will the Clean Power Plan, the Environmental Protection Agency, any hope of a carbon tax, and Fed opposition to pipelines or drilling on public lands. So regulations will ...read more

An explosion on the old Colonial Pipeline killed one worker and injured five others Monday in rural Alabama close to the same spot where the same pipeline burst in September, leaking almost 15 million gallons and causing gasoline shortages across the ...read more

The public may not be the best judge of risk. If you ask someone what they are afraid of, they will say many things that are generally not very dangerous, like radiation, fluoridated water, or vaccinations. This is an important issue. Without understanding ...read more

It is highly unlikely that the issues surrounding energy will make any difference in who we choose for our next President. That said, there are distinct differences among the four presidential nominees. Clinton supports an all-of-the-above energy strategy ...read more

The 42nd World Cocktail Championships, which kicked off in Tokyo this week, is an unusual event to discuss a nuclear disaster. But that is exactly what Yoshikazu Suda, a bartender in Tokyo’s Ginza district who hails from Fukushima, is doing. During the ...read more

Pressure is mounting to decommission and dismantle four dams on the lower Snake River near the Tri-Cities in Washington State in order to save salmon runs. These include Ice Harbor, Lower Monumental, Little Goose and Lower Granite. But it’s not so easy ...read more

The MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility in South Carolina, a facility to blend weapons grade Pu with U to make new commercial nuclear fuel that can be burned in nuclear power reactors but cannot be used to make nuclear weapons. The MFFF is 70% complete, but ...read more

The rarely-discussed energy cost externality is thedeathprint, or the number of people killed per kWh produced. Like the carbon footprint, coal has the largest deathprint while nuclear has the smallest. These vague eventually-someone-has-to-pay kind of ...read more

The rarely-discussed energy cost externality is thedeathprint, or the number of people killed per kWh produced. Like the carbon footprint, coal has the largest deathprint while nuclear has the smallest. These vague eventually-someone-has-to-pay kind of ...read more

GE has developed a better material for use in the solar industry. First discovered in attempts to produce artificial diamonds, silicon carbide (SiC) is likely to replace silica in the solar industry, significantly increasing the efficiency and speed of ...read more

Now that OPEC’s economic oil war against the United States, led by Saudi Arabia, seems to be over, the resulting global oil glut has kept demand down. The IEA lowered its predictions of world oil demand by about 100,000 barrels/day for this year and about ...read more

There certainly is a direct connection between fracking and earthquakes in the central and eastern United States, an important point considering last Saturday’s magnitude 5.6 earthquake that shook Oklahoma. The dramatic increase in fracking for oil and ...read more

The magnitude 5.6 quake in Oklahoma over the weekend is drawing fresh attention to the earthquake risks from wastewater disposal related to fracking for oil and gas. Is it a price worth paying for the dramatic drop in carbon emissions in America because ...read more

In different ways, the Democratic and Republican Platforms would do irreparable harm to our Nation’s energy infrastructure and environmental health. A normal state of affairs in the new ideology-over-science era that America has entered. What Donald Trump ...read more

Chemists at the University of Texas at Arlington have published a new study that suggests the toxic organic vapor contamination in and around oil and gas fracking wells result more from sloppy drilling and operations, and are not inherent to the extraction ...read more

Obama Administration is thinking about adopting a No First Use policy for nuclear weapons, in which the U.S. would declare that we will never be the first to use nuclear weapons in any conflict, under any circumstances. This is in contrast with our policy ...read more

No. In fact, Clinton generally supports nuclear energy. She does not want any nuclear power plants to close prematurely, particularly the New York Indian Point plant. Clinton has said that “rapidly shutting down our nation’s nuclear power fleet puts ideology ...read more

Two days ago, Dr. James Hansen and the leading climate scientists in the world sent a letter to Governor Jerry Brown of California, about how nuclear energy was essential to fight global warming. The letter was prompted by a recent announcement by Pacific ...read more

With New York’s passing of a true Clean Energy Standard this week that supports both renewables and nuclear, Exelon Generation has agreed to assume ownership and operations of Entergy Corporation's James A. FitzPatrick nuclear power plant in Scriba ...read more

With New York’s passing of a true Clean Energy Standard this week that supports both renewables and nuclear, Exelon Generation has agreed to assume ownership and operations of Entergy Corporation's James A. FitzPatrick nuclear power plant in Scriba ...read more

Last week, the Department of Energy, under President Obama, released a plan to expand hydropower by 50%, from about 100 GW to 150 GW by 2050, through electrifying existing dams and emplacing pumped hydro storage at existing non-powered dams to facilitate ...read more