The DOE Announces $5B Loan To Constellation For Nuclear Uprates [1]
"The conditional commitment aims to boost output across 15 reactors in three states, expanding clean power capacity far faster than building new reactors."

"The conditional commitment aims to boost output across 15 reactors in three states, expanding clean power capacity far faster than building new reactors."
"The Trump administration loves coal plants. The rest of us are paying the price in higher electricity bills, poorer health, and worsening climate change." "A new report finds nearly half of U.S. coal plants benefit from federal handouts and pollution exemptions, harming public health, our wallets, and the climate."
"The sponsors of the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act say it will improve energy infrastructure development. The truth is that it will fast-track environmental destruction."
"Behind a wire fence lies a vast gaping wound of earth. Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter of a million trees occupied the 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest near the town of Muhos in rural northern Finland. Now they are all gone."
"“The numbers that matter most are still secret,” said Monika Gerhart of the Gulf States Renewable Energy Industries Association."
"Some of the Trump administration’s partners could remain anonymous, hidden behind a parent company based in Barbados. The oil deal is designed to prevent future U.S. presidents and Venezuelan leaders from changing or dismantling the enterprise."
"Regulators in Texas did not stop processing permits for data center projects when Gov. Greg Abbott ordered a pause last month, according to an analysis of public records released Monday by the oil and gas watchdog group FracTracker."
"To understand how Donald Trump would come to use the power of the presidency to promote a small discount gas station operation — one with murky finances, mysterious ownership and allegedly dubious business practices — you need to start with a former South Jersey mayor who also happens to be a Super Bowl-winning NFL kicking coach."
"For years, economists dismissed collusion as crankery and blamed bird flu for high prices. Then the feds found evidence that could prove the cranks right, and almost nobody noticed."
"US corporate lobbyists launched a two-year “blitz” to postpone and weaken the world’s most progressive legislation to protect forests, according to a new investigation by the environmental watchdog Mighty Earth."
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