Cost for uranium plant rises to $3.5 billion

Wednesday, February 27, 2008 Associated Press Piketon, Ohio- The company building a proposed uranium-enrichment plant in southern Ohio said the project's cost has jumped to $3.5 billion, more than ... read more

Will U.S. become world's nuclear-waste dump?

Critics say a plan to import up to 20,000 tons of low-level waste from Italy, the biggest import ever, could lead to even larger flows. By Mark Clayton | Staff writer of The Christian Science ... read more

Did Turkey Point Again Take Florida to the Radioactive Brink?

By Harvey Wasserman  www.freepress.org  As many as two million Floridians were blacked out yesterday by a series of grid malfunctions that forced shut two atomic reactors south of Miami and ... read more

Nuclear Is Not the Right Alternative Energy Source

Published on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 by The Dallas Morning News Nuclear Is Not the Right Alternative Energy Source New plants are risky, costly and unnecessary by Arjun Makhijani Luminant ... read more

How Swing State Ohio Got Nuked

By Harvey Wasserman Ohio is poised to do its thing as the ultimate swing state.  On March 4 it may, along with Texas, choose the Democratic presidential nominee. Tragically, the candidates will ... read more

THE ENERGY CHALLENGE

February 23, 2008 Move Over, Oil, There’s Money in Texas Wind By CLIFFORD KRAUSS - The New York Times SWEETWATER, Tex. — The wind turbines that recently went up on Louis Brooks’s ranch are ... read more

Will Ohio be left behind by the green energy revolution?

January 31, 2008 By Harvey Wasserman Testimony to the Public Utilities Commission of the Ohio House, January 30, 2008 Thank you for allowing me to testify today. I am a resident of central Ohio ... read more

STOP THE LIEBERMAN/WARNER CLIMATE CHANGE BILL!

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Alternative job source

Wednesday,  February 6, 2008 3:18 AM By Brian Skoloff ASSOCIATED PRESS There's power at the end of this rainbow near Palm Springs, Calif. The wind-energy industry employs about 45,000 people in ... read more

Nuclear power's costs far outweigh its benefits

Mlwk Jrnl-Sntl, Sunday February 10, 2008 By AL GEDICKS Posted: Feb. 9, 2008 The state Assembly's Energy and Utilities Committee voted to recommend passage of AB 346, which would repeal limits on ... read more