April 20, 2023
For another take on energy, see “The Nuclear Option in Oregon” by Robert Sack, M.D. I’m always baffled by the neediness of nuclear advocates (I exempt Dr. Sack, who is less advocating nuclear than keeping an open mind to the option). They have to argue that their preferred electricity source is mistreated, its downsides exaggerated, […]
April 18, 2023
When the U.S. Senate passed my Clean Energy for America Act last year as the centerpiece of the Inflation Reduction Act, I had to pinch myself after the floor vote. After all, Big Oil and other powerful special interests zealously guarding their precious and outmoded privileges don’t get defeated so resoundingly and deservedly every day back in Washington, […]
April 07, 2023
For another take on energy, see “The Nuclear Option, Revisited” by Angus Duncan Can an environmentalist be in favor of nuclear energy? I consider myself “green.” My wife and I live in a “net zero” house with solar panels, and we drive a plug-in hybrid EV. Need I mention that I am very worried about global […]
How did progressive Oregon, and the country, get to stasis on climate change? Other countries have not locked up on the issue. Even the Brexit-inflected and flustered United Kingdom has a coherent and determined if stumbling-toward-solutions policy approach. Even China, as dependent as it is on coal, acknowledges its obligation to exit that fuel and […]
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