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FERC Seeks Delay In Considering Trump Coal, Nuclear Bailout [1]

"The head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is seeking a 30-day extension in the agency’s timeline to consider a proposal to prop up coal and nuclear power plants."

Climate Change [2]
Consumer [3]
Disasters [4]
Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Health [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Natural Resources [10]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [11]
Pollution [12]
Waste [13]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: The Hill [16], 12/11/2017
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"U.S. Energy Office Gets New Chairman As Nuclear, Coal Vote Looms" [17]

"A new chairman was sworn in on Thursday at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission who will lead the agency as it considers a directive from the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to subsidize ailing coal and nuclear power plants."

Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Politics [8]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [11]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Reuters [18], 12/08/2017
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"Georgia Regulators Question Economics Of Completing Nuclear Plant" [19]

"A new staff analysis by Georgia's Public Service Commission suggests construction of America's first totally new nuclear power reactor of the 21st century should be scrapped unless Georgia Power agrees to absorb a bigger share of the project's cost overruns."

Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [11]
Public [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [20]
Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press [21], 12/07/2017
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Energy Markets Offer Clues on Environment’s Future [22]

How the U.S. economy uses energy has huge impacts on the environment. So this week's TipSheet helps journalists understand the economy-energy-environment nexus, detailing nine top trends to watch on fossil fuels and alternative energy in 2018. Plus, a list of helpful sources for tracking energy markets.

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Climate Change [2]
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Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Politics [8]
Government [24]
Journalism & Media [25]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [11]
Planning & Growth [26]
Pollution [12]
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"White House May Share Nuclear Power Technology With Saudi Arabia" [28]

"The Trump administration is holding talks on providing nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia — a move that critics say could upend decades of U.S. policy and lead to an arms race in the Middle East."

Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Politics [8]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Military [29]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [11]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Middle East [30]
Source: ProPublica [31], 11/30/2017
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"A Poison In Our Island" [32]

"Rising seas caused by climate change are seeping inside a United States nuclear waste dump on a remote and low-lying Pacific atoll, flushing out radioactive substances left behind from some of the world’s largest atomic weapons tests."

Nuclear Power & Radiation [11]
People & Population [33]
Pollution [12]
Water & Oceans [34]
Public [14]
Australia & Oceania [35]
Source: Australian ABC [36], 11/27/2017
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Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Reactors’ Melted Fuel [37]

"The Japanese government and companies used radiation-hardened machines to search for the fuel that escaped the plant’s ruined reactors."

Disasters [4]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [11]
Public [14]
Asia [38]
Source: NY Times [39], 11/20/2017
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"A Radioactive Cloud Wafts Over Europe, With Russia as Chief Suspect" [40]

"Scientists across Europe have been puzzling about a phenomenon that seemed laden with mystery and menace in somewhat uneven proportions — a concentration of radioactive pollution caused by a nuclide called ruthenium 106."

Nuclear Power & Radiation [11]
Public [14]
Europe [41]
Source: NY Times [42], 11/16/2017
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For Some Native Americans, Uranium Poisoning Feels Like Discrimination [43]

"Helen Nez had 10 children. Now she only has three. Seven of her children died of a disorder called Navajo neuropathy, which is linked to uranium contamination."

Chemicals [44]
Environmental Health [7]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [11]
People & Population [33]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: NPR [45], 11/15/2017
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"U.S. Ag Department Proposes Lifting Mining Ban Near Grand Canyon" [46]

"The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Wednesday proposed lifting a mining ban on land near Grand Canyon National Park as part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to sweep away regulations impeding development."

Forests [47]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Natural Resources [10]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [11]
Public [14]
National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Reuters [48], 11/02/2017
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