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

Environmental Progress

4] Meanwhile, many experts see in recent trends an inevitable transition away from coal and nuclear power plants, designed to function as baseload capacity, toward variable renewable energy sources with just-in-time natural gas back-up. The answer is that there was a lot more generating capacity in 2006 than in 2020. 5] The U.S.

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

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Gleick falsely accuses me of cherry-picking a quote from a 2019 New York Times story on Amazon fires. “If Between 1996 and 2006, United Nations family planning spending declined 50 percent. The whole point of referring to Hiroshima was to raise the specter of nuclear weapons explosion. Seven years later, the U.N.

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

Environmental Progress

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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Raytheon Makes Nuclear War More Likely

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Securities and Exchange Commission | 2006 The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has instituted settled enforcement proceedings against Raytheon Company (Raytheon), its former Chairman and CEO, Daniel P. USA: In Raytheon merger, protect the workers Sentinel & Enterprise | June 12, 2019 Raytheon Company, a massive U.

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The "Patriots" at Raytheon

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Securities and Exchange Commission | 2006 The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has instituted settled enforcement proceedings against Raytheon Company (Raytheon), its former Chairman and CEO, Daniel P. USA: In Raytheon merger, protect the workers Sentinel & Enterprise | June 12, 2019 Raytheon Company, a massive U.

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Ukraine conflict a boon for defense industry

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Securities and Exchange Commission | 2006 The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has instituted settled enforcement proceedings against Raytheon Company (Raytheon), its former Chairman and CEO, Daniel P. USA: In Raytheon merger, protect the workers Sentinel & Enterprise | June 12, 2019 Raytheon Company, a massive U.

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How Biden’s Foreign-Policy Team Got Rich

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Securities and Exchange Commission | 2006 The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has instituted settled enforcement proceedings against Raytheon Company (Raytheon), its former Chairman and CEO, Daniel P. USA: In Raytheon merger, protect the workers Sentinel & Enterprise | June 12, 2019 Raytheon Company, a massive U.