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Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 23, 2025
Theres been a lot of talk about nuclear power recently. Plant owners have been making plans to restart their retired nuclear power plants, Google signed the first corporate deal to purchase energy from small modular nuclear reactors, and the US pledged to triple its nuclear generating capacity by 2050.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 26, 2025
She signed the bill into law on June 20, 2025. The remaining 10% by 2040 could come from a wide range of low- and zero-carbon technologies, including nuclear power, large existing hydropower projects, and using so-called “clean” fuels like biomethane or hydrogen in thermal plants. The blog has been updated to reflect this.
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Law Columbia
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Clean energy generators are likewise reluctant to make the financial commitment to build new facilities, knowing that state retail competition laws also constrain their ability to sell power to anyone other than the local utility. Renewable Energy Credits or RECs, to support their corporate sustainability goals.
Circle of Blue
JULY 9, 2025
In the United States, coal production actually did peak in 2008 at 1.2 Second, Trump is challenging state climate change and clean energy laws that he asserts will raise costs or hamper operations at existing coal-fired power plants or impede construction of new plants.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector. Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. German parliament adopts a law to end coal use by 2038 at the latest. German parliament adopts a law to end coal use by 2038 at the latest.
A Greener Life
JULY 30, 2021
The country’s struggle to reduce its reliance on coal was significantly helped by the purely ideological and populist decision to phase out all its nuclear power stations by 2022 (initially following the Fukushima accident in 2011 in Japan) .
Law Columbia
MAY 27, 2021
In 1978, during a phase of the Cold War when relationships between East and West began to relax, the United States and 4 other nuclear powers (China, France, the Soviet Union and the UK) made unilateral declarations granting security assurances to non-nuclear- weapon states. By Christoph Schwarte* .
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