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Ontario is selling our Clean Energy Credit out from under us

Enviromental Defense

Ontario Power Generation has been quietly selling off Clean Energy Credits from its hydro and nuclear power to businesses in the United States since about 2013. Ontario businesses that are attempting to lower their carbon footprint can no longer count their electricity use as having low emissions.

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Five Things the “Nuclear Bros” Don’t Want You to Know About Small Modular Reactors

Union of Concerned Scientists

This is due in no small part to the “ nuclear bros ”: an active and seemingly tireless group of nuclear power advocates who dominate social media discussions on energy by promoting SMRs and other “advanced” nuclear technologies as the only real solution for the climate crisis.

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Climate leadership is now in Asia

Edouard Stenger

China’s coal consumption declined over three consecutive years (2013 to 2016), and a continued slow decline is expected. Quartz reports that the Land of the Morning Calm has seen its coal-burning recently increase as its nuclear power plants faced problems and as coal supplied the necessary power.

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Climate Activists Argue Criminal Acts Legally Excusable Under Necessity Doctrine

Vermont Law

Many civil disobedience activists in the 1960s and 70s attempted to use it to justify their illegal actions in protests over foreign wars or nuclear power, for example, but achieved little to no success. In 2013, Massachusetts District Attorney C. in some way. alleviate or reduce the risk. reasonable. Oregon, Nov. Cohan, supra.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

The attorney general said that PwC also served from at least 2008 to 2013 as global advisor and report writer for the Carbon Disclosure Project, a non-profit organization that functions as a global disclosure system for environmental information, including greenhouse gas emissions, from companies including Exxon.

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Why Ceding Nuclear to China and Russia Threatens National Security: Michael Shellenberger's Congressional Testimony July 28, 2020

Environmental Progress

In 2013, the Obama administration gave the wind industry permission to kill condors, an endangered species. The good news is that recent and historical events show that economic growth can actually lower carbon emissions. Among some nations, including Britain, France, and Germany, even carbon emissions peaked in the mid-1970s.

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