nuclear-news

Opinion:

¶ “Senate Tax Bill Threatens Clean Energy & Public Health, Pays Fossil Fuel Industry To Wreak Environmental Havoc” • Senate Republicans passed their $1.5 trillion Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. It is a hastily written that will increase the country’s deficit by as much as $1 trillion. It also threatens the country’s renewable energy industry. [CleanTechnica]

Creating environmental havoc

¶ “Three Reasons Why Renewable Energy Leaders Are Optimistic” • At Green Tech Media’s US Power and Renewables Summit, utility company executives, financiers, renewable energy developers, and regulators shared their research and different experiences of the rapidly evolving renewable energy industry. [Natural Resources Defense Council]

Science and Technology:

¶ Dr Joanne Chory, a biologist from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and HHMI, created a type of plant infused with a compound called suberin that she says can cut CO2 in the atmosphere by 50% if…