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Nuclear Plant Closures And Renewables Increase Electricity Prices & Unreliability, Testifies Michael Shellenberger to U.S. Senate

Environmental Progress

Congress took questions relating to the security of America’s electricity supply seriously before more than a dozen states experienced energy shortages last month, but those events make this hearing all the more urgent. 1] In its 2017 report, the Academies warned that U.S. electrical grids were increasingly “complex and vulnerable.” [2]

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Testimony of Michael D. Shellenberger Founder and President, Environmental Progress For the House Oversight Committee August 5, 2020

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For example, the IPCC notes that France had 4,000 fewer deaths than anticipated from a heat wave in 2006 thanks to improved health care, an early-warning system and greater public consciousness in response to a deadly heat wave three years earlier. By 2019, German household electricity prices were 45 percent higher than the European average.

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Locals Aim Their Protest at Weapons Maker Raytheon in Support of Palestine

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USA: ‘Huge’ Win for Code of Excellence: On-Clock Training at Raytheon Plant International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers | May 8, 2023 More than 2,400 Raytheon Technologies missile and defense workers are getting on-the-clock training on the IBEW’s Code of Excellence program , thanks to a years-long effort by the leaders of Waltham, Mass.,

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15 people arrested during peaceful 'free Palestine' protest in Louisville

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USA: ‘Huge’ Win for Code of Excellence: On-Clock Training at Raytheon Plant International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers | May 8, 2023 More than 2,400 Raytheon Technologies missile and defense workers are getting on-the-clock training on the IBEW’s Code of Excellence program , thanks to a years-long effort by the leaders of Waltham, Mass.,

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Raytheon Makes Nuclear War More Likely

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References: Why Bombs Made in America Have Been Killing Civilians in Yemen Here’s Exactly Who’s Profiting from the War on Yemen Drone protest leads to arrest at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems Amazon Contractor Raytheon has CIA Ties General Electric’s RCA Unit Fined $2.5 Local 1505 and representatives from the Second District office.

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The "Patriots" at Raytheon

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References: Why Bombs Made in America Have Been Killing Civilians in Yemen Here’s Exactly Who’s Profiting from the War on Yemen Drone protest leads to arrest at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems Amazon Contractor Raytheon has CIA Ties General Electric’s RCA Unit Fined $2.5 Local 1505 and representatives from the Second District office.

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Defense Stocks Soar as Trump Wages War on Syria

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References: Why Bombs Made in America Have Been Killing Civilians in Yemen Here’s Exactly Who’s Profiting from the War on Yemen Drone protest leads to arrest at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems Amazon Contractor Raytheon has CIA Ties General Electric’s RCA Unit Fined $2.5 Local 1505 and representatives from the Second District office.