article thumbnail

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

Environmental Progress

25] And that amount does not include the costs associated with local and state political opposition. Market impacts of a nuclear power plant closure,” American Economic Journal, Applied Economics , 2016, p. But Breakthrough Energy calculated that the cost of new transmission, distribution, and storage would be $1.5 trillion. [25]

article thumbnail

October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The plaintiffs contended that environmental impact statements (EISs) from 2014 and 2016 should have been supplemented with new information about the forest’s natural regeneration and that the biomass plant should have been considered in the same EISs as the logging project. Forest Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act.

2019 40
article thumbnail

February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”

2020 40