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Monthly archive August, 2016

Exelon Angles For Nuclear Funds After Legal Challenge To Clean Energy Standard

“New York state has received the first legal challenge to the clean energy standard (CES) it passed earlier this month. Lawyers for Ampersand Hydro LLC, which controls 12 small hydropower stations in New York, have asked regulators for a rehearing on procedural grounds. The document entered the official record this morning, marking the first formal...
"Entergy Seeks Control of Indian Point Decommissioning Fund" by Lanning Taliaferro

“Entergy Seeks Control of Indian Point Decommissioning Fund” by Lanning Taliaferro

“The trust fund contained about $683 million at the end of 2015. CORTLANDT, NY — Entergy has submitted a license amendment request to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeking the transfer of the decommissioning trust funds for the Indian Point 3 and James A. FitzPatrick nuclear power plants to its control from the New York Power...
A bittersweet Clean Energy Standard in NY

A bittersweet Clean Energy Standard in NY

Dear friends, By now you may have heard that New York State adopted a “Clean Energy Standard” last Monday, one that finally puts a requirement on utilities to buy renewable energy, but one that also requires that we all pay to subsidize unprofitable nuclear power plants. The nuclear portion of the policy will cost New...

August 14: visit us at the Corn Fest

Find out the current status of Indian Point and what might happen next. Visit the IPSEC information table at the Beacon Sloop Club Corn Fest on the banks of the Hudson River, at the Pete and Toshi Seeger Park, within walking distance of the Metro North Beacon Train Station. If you would like to help...
Indian Point: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Indian Point: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

By Marilyn Elie, Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition Indian Point – the reactors – seem to just keep rolling along. Here is a quick update on the many aspects of actions surrounding the troubled Units 2 and 3. Indian Point – the film – is starting a nationwide theater run. It will eventually be shown...

AN OPEN LETTER TO PEOPLE OF JAPAN

As part of today’s Peace Gathering to Commemorate the 71st Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki… …held in front of the Consulate General of Japan in New York at 299 Park Avenue, NYC (Park Ave. and 48th St.): AN OPEN LETTER TO PEOPLE OF JAPAN FROM CONCERNED PEACE ORGANIZATIONS AND CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES —In observance of...