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Urgent Calls to Action: Stop the Cuomo Tax to Support Nukes!

Urgent Calls to Action: Stop the Cuomo Tax to Support Nukes!

“Dear Close Indian Point Supporters,  Eight billion dollars! That’s how much Governor Andrew Cuomo wants us to pay to bail out old, unprofitable nuclear power plants! *He wants New Yorkers like you to pay for that bailout with a surcharge on your electricity bills.* Sign the petition at the link below, to tell Governor Cuomo...

TEPCO admits that ice wall will not stop groundwater from entering crippled Fukushima Daiichi reactor buildings

Fukushima Dai-ichi continues to show what happens when a nuclear plant fails. Nuclear power is no longer competitive in the energy market and all around the world renewable energy resources are growing. How crazy is it to keep these old monsters running to squeeze out the last nickels from them? How crazy is it that...

It’s too risky to wait for Pilgrim plant’s shutdown

Pilgrim is also owned by Entergy Nuclear Northeast. Do you think that Indian Point is any better run or maintained by the company that is losing profitability frm their nuclear plants? I don’t. Why hasn’t the NRC shut down and inspected IP3 for the baffle bolt degradation that was found in IP2 and kept it...

Iowa could go 100% Green with Wind in only 14 years, w/ Few Birds Killed, Mr. Trump

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXN1UAv1anQ&w=560&h=315] Thanks to Ken Gale of WBAI Radio (99.5 FM in New York) who has the Eco-Logic radio show every other Tuesday night at 8 p.m. Eastern time. He posted this, and it is just more evidence that renewable energy is the inevitable future. Please share the good news widely! “Iowa gets 31% of...

Machinery malfunction caused oil leak at Indian Point

Every day (and every minute) that Indian Point operates is another round of Russian Roulette. It should not be relicensed and it should be shut down and decommissioned. It is an old and degraded facility and its sister plants of Entergy Nuclear Northeast (Vermont Yankee – closed, Pilgrim in Cape Cod – closing, FitzPatrick –...
New Yorkers: Call Gov. Cuomo -- Stop the $7.6 Billion Nuclear Tax!

New Yorkers: Call Gov. Cuomo — Stop the $7.6 Billion Nuclear Tax!

Dear Friends in New York, Your actions are making a difference! Thousands of New Yorkers submitted comments opposing the $7.6 billion nuclear bailout to the Public Service Commission (PSC) last week — and today, the state capitol’s newspaper came out against it, too. Please call Gov. Cuomo today! Tell him to pull the plug on...

NUCLEAR HAS NO PLACE IN A CLEAN ENERGY STANDARD; JOIN US IN TESTIFYING!

This Sunday! Zephyr Teachout speaks live on climate solutions!

  Sunday, November 8th, 3 pm Climate Solutions Grassroots Tour Co-Hosted by Sierra Club, Rockland Water Coalition & Temple Israel Center Green Team Temple Israel Center 280 Old Mamaroneck Road, White Plains, NY 10605 Zephyr Teachout will speak on the solutions to climate change, one of the most urgent environmental problems of our time! Zephyr galvanized...

Fukushima Freeways Campaign Kicks Off

New Map shows Hudson River Valley would be a Corridor for Dangerous High Level Radioactive Nuclear Waste Shipments  [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyc0m49BN-I] Picture huge semi-trailer trucks, barreling down the freeway towering alongside of you.  Or coming in the opposite direction on the freeway lanes passing near you.  On the trucks are gigantic concrete cylinders.  Hundreds of high level...

Nuclear Radiation: New Findings Bring Horror and Hope

In the wake of the NRC’s shocking cancellation of a study on the cancer risks of nuclear power plants, new studies have been released throwing the situation in stark relief. A paper published in the November issue of Epidemiology, studied children in the Fukushima region of Japan. The study found that children have been diagnosed...

“The Hudson: A River at Risk” Documentary and Q&A Panel

Thursday, October 22nd, 6:30 pm Ossining Documentary & Discussion Series Budarz Theatre, Ossining Public Library 53 Croton Ave, Ossining, NY 10562 “The Hudson: A River at Risk” is a Series of short films by Jon Bowermaster (“Dear Governor Cuomo”) that chronicles three time-sensitive issues affecting our Hudson River – Crude Oil rail transport, building the new...

Energiewende: Germany’s Transition to Renewable Energy

Wednesday, October 21st, 7 pm Stony Point Center 17 Cricketown Road, Stony Point, NY Alexander Franke of Germany’s Heinrich Böll Foundation will present information and answer questions: What is really happening in Germany with renewable energy? Why is it important? What does it mean for the Hudson River Valley? Can we follow their example and...