Unlike nuclear plants, neither wind nor solar are required to pay for their disposition or clean-up upfront. Decommissioned materials are rarely recycled and often end up in landfills.Ratepayers will ...
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David Amerine

David Amerine is a United States Naval Academy graduate. He served as the President of Nuclear Fuel Services, which is vital to national security as the sole produce ...
There was some initial promise that attending member states might do something different. Initial pressure was exerted by the Colombia-led coalition ("mutirão" or joint effort) of 83 countries to ...
To its credit the Australian COVID-!9 Response Inquiry ignored the constraints of its narrow terms of reference and gave attention to several of these issues and even praised some of the Morrison ...
But COP15 was small in comparison with the most recent UN climate conferences. Below are the attendance figures of all COPs ...
The 70,000 attendees at the COP30 in Brazil, including Newsom and his entourage, are OBLIVIOUS that electricity came AFTER oil, as ALL electrical generation methods from hydro, coal, natural gas, ...
Cumulative fossil fuel emissions of CO 2 had only reached 1ppm (Fig 1) by ~1860, when Alpine Glaciers began to retreat (Fig 2). Since that time, atmospheric CO 2 has increased by some 122 ppm and the ...
Author's note: The cartoon was drawn in June 2022 by Yaakov Kirschen aka "Dry Bones"- one of Israel's foremost political and social commentators – who passed away on 14 April 2025 and whose cartoons ...
The civil war in Sudan is a moral and humanitarian outrage-a power squabble between two ruthless military leaders, neither of whom has the true interests of their country at heart, but each of whom is ...
In Belarus, independent media have been labeled "extremist," and journalists have been arrested, tortured, or forced into exile; between 500 and 600 are reported to have fled the country since 2020.
Southwest Western Australia (WA): The Department of Conservation and Land Management (CALM) led extensive studies on forest fire behaviour, effects, and suppression. WA's commitment to fire ecology ...
Lawfare, when weaponised, can pose a double threat to democracies. Domestically, the rule of law is an integral component of the theory of liberal democracy, and it underpins the institutions and ...