09 March 2009
Is this the end of the age of the automobile?
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Harvey Wasserman
As a dominant form of transportation, the automobile is dead. So is GM, which now stands for Gone Mad.

But the larger picture says that the financial crisis now enveloping the world is grounded in the transition from the...
26 February 2009
Obama's excellent atomic omission
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Harvey Wasserman
Two lethal words went thankfully unspoken in President Obama's address to the nation this week---atomic energy.

Unfortunately, two others---"clean coal"---were included.

An increasingly desperate reactor industry...
20 February 2009
Feds ignore jet crashes at operating reactors
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Harvey Wasserman
The ever-vigilant Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued milestone regulations requiring the builders of new nuke reactors to explain how their plants might withstand the crash of large commercial jetliners.

But the NRC has...
12 February 2009
Another spectacular $50 billion no nukes victory for the forces of Solartopia
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Harvey Wasserman
For the third straight year, against all odds, a national grassroots No Nukes campaign has stripped out of the federal budget a proposed $50 billion boondoggle for new atomic reactors.

The victory gives a giant boost to solar...
09 February 2009
Why is that $50 billion radioactive antique toilet still in the stimulus bill?
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Harvey Wasserman
The infamous $50 billion nuke power loan guarantee package meant to use your money to build new nuke reactors has gone missing from saturation media coverage of Obama’s Stimulus Package. But it’s still in the Senate version of the bill,...
06 February 2009
A $50 billion nuke debate at Democracy NOW!
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Harvey Wasserman
AMY GOODMAN: A coalition of environmental groups are calling on senators to remove a controversial provision from the $900 billion stimulus bill that could lead to the construction of a new generation of nuclear power plants. We host a...

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