Why environmentalists must fight back against Obama's kiss to polluters

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Monday February 01, 2010 · 9:29 AM PST

2010/02/01 · 09:29

President Obama's State of the Union address and subsequent endorsement of $54 billion in federal loan guarantees for new nuclear power plants left the environmental movement seething out in the cold. As we wrote in our Beyond Nuclear press release, Obama made an apparent "farewell speech to the environmental movement" when he came out in favor of not only more nuclear power but that other oxymoron "clean coal," along with offshore oil drilling. Friends of the Earth called it a "kick in the gut" while the student energy movement - Energy Action Coalition - noted that this was not the energy policy for which they helped to get Obama elected. What then must we do to ensure that the Obama White House gets out of the reverse gear its energy plan is stuck in?

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Tuesday July 14, 2009 · 1:21 PM PDT

2009/07/14 · 13:21

Thirty years ago this week - on July 16 - the worst accidental release of radioactive waste happened at the Church Rock uranium mine and mill site. While the Three Mile Island accident (that same year) is well known, the enormous radioactive spill in New Mexico has been kept quiet. It is the U.S. nuclear accident that almost no one knows about.

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Tuesday May 12, 2009 · 12:07 PM PDT

2009/05/12 · 12:07

The United States may cancel plans to export nuclear power technology to the United Arab Emirates because a relative of the UAE president was caught torturing an Afghan prisoner. This strange rationale, if applied without hypocrisy, should signal the end of nuclear power in the U.S.

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Tuesday April 28, 2009 · 2:54 PM PDT

2009/04/28 · 14:54

Even as climate scientists deliver ever shorter windows of time within which, they predict, we must act to stop runaway and catastrophic climate change, a widespread public sense of urgency in the United States is largely absent.

If most of the country disregards - or even never thinks about - climate change at all - why do some of us spend most of our waking lives endeavoring to halt the seemingly inevitable climatic downslide that could render much of our planet uninhabitable?

Shouldn't we hang up our environmentalist hats in despair and retreat to more pleasurable activities?

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Friday November 21, 2008 · 2:32 PM PST

2008/11/21 · 14:32

As the Arctic melts and our post Obama election euphoria begins to abate, attention has turned to the greedy rush to pillage Arctic waters for fossil fuel resources and fish stocks. Have we learned nothing about the consequences of our already unfettered consumption and contamination of the earth's natural resources? Aren't we supposed to be getting off fossil fuels and allowing already depleted fish stocks at least an iota of a chance at recovery before it's too late (if it isn't already)? Has the industrial world no conscience? Are these naive questions?

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Thursday October 09, 2008 · 1:43 PM PDT

2008/10/09 · 13:43

Wall Street is in free fall thanks to eight years of mismanagement under the Bush administration. But presidential candidate, John McCain, continues to trumpet his 45 new reactor plan. He has never been asked to account for this reckless gamble. But here's the tally - just for construction alone: $500 billion. If that sounds like a familiar figure, read on!

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Wednesday September 17, 2008 · 9:46 AM PDT

2008/09/17 · 09:46

Remember Freedom Fries? At the start of the Iraq War everything French was banished because those pesky French weren't with us on our invasion to root out Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. Meanwhile, our leaders were secretly closing deals with the French government, paving the way for a massive French nuclear invasion. With huge corporate profits at stake, politicians now insist that the French do nuclear power right, even if they shouldn't be frying potatoes or making decent wine. Plans are in place to have the French reprocess our nuclear waste, install French reactors and enrich uranium. All of this is a dangerous fantasy.

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