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• Vermont Yanks the Rug Out From Under its Nuclear Future

  Posted March 1st, 2010 at 5:28pm in Energy and Environment with 14 comments

  In a highly publicized decision last week, the Vermont Senate voted to potentially close the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, the state’s only nuclear plant.  The non-binding vote marked the culmination of a year-long debate in Vermont as to whether the state should renew the operating license of Vermont Yankee, a 37-year old plant that [...] More

• Morning Bell: A Pro-Growth, Pro-Nuclear, Energy Alternative

  Posted June 11th, 2009 at 8:55am in Energy and Environment with 31 comments

  Last month, the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis released a study of the Waxman-Markey energy tax bill showing that by 2035 it would raise electricity rates 90 percent, reduce aggregate gross domestic product (GDP) by $7.4 trillion, and destroy over 1,900,000 jobs. The Natural Resources Defense Council recently responded with a critique of our [...] More

• Why Are Greens Fiddling While Coal Burns?

  Posted October 8th, 2008 at 12:10pm in Energy and Environment with 1 comments

  Great article by John Tierney in The New York Times contrasting the ’soft’ Barack Obama vs ‘hard’ John McCain approaches to America’s energy future yesterday. The soft path includes “energy conservation and power from the sun, wind and plants” while the hard path is more “about building nuclear power plants.” Tierney does a great job [...] More

• Morning Bell: Unintended Consequences of Wind Energy

  Posted August 15th, 2008 at 9:45am in Energy and Environment with 13 comments

  Unintended consequences of the federal government’s energy policy are nothing new. Think about ethanol. The United States is now committed to using 9 billion gallons of ethanol in 2008, which will rise to 36 billion by 2022. No one thought it would be responsible for pushing 30 million people into poverty. [...] More

• Morning Bell: The World Is Powering Up While America Powers Down

  Posted July 24th, 2008 at 9:43am in Energy and Environment with 20 comments

  The economy is by far the No. 1 issue on most Americans’ minds. Gas prices are a close second. The two issues are intimately related. But the spike in oil prices this year is just the tip of the iceberg. Due to similar developments in supply and demand, electricity prices are set to skyrocket next [...] More

• The Cost of Not Allowing Nuclear

  Posted June 19th, 2008 at 2:55pm in Energy and Environment with 2 comments

  The Heritage Foundation is no big fan of central planning or government subsidies. So while we commend John McCain for recognizing that nuclear energy ought to have a role in U.S. energy policy, we do not believe the federal government should be setting arbitrary targets like 45 or 100 nuclear power plants in X number [...] More

• Morning Bell: The Left’s Nuclear Nightmare

  Posted June 5th, 2008 at 9:18am in Energy and Environment with 0 comments

  The U.S. Department of Energy officially submitted the license application to build a nuclear waste facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada earlier this week. A strong supporter of the Lieberman-Warner carbon-capping bill, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was incredulous, telling reporters: “Yucca Mountain is as close to being dead as any piece of legislation could [...] More

• A Nordic Nuclear Lesson

  Posted March 20th, 2008 at 11:09am in Energy and Environment with 0 comments

  Finland, like the United States, is facing both rapidly growing energy demands and a need to reduce their country’s carbon emissions. Unlike the U.S., Finland is being honest about the cost and benefits of currently available solutions and is about to finish their first nuclear power plant since 1980. Heritage analyst Jack Spencer details how [...] More