Joe Romm's Emotionally Charged Anti-Nuclear Pitch at Huffington Post

Joe Romm, an Amory Lovins protege and strongly partisan anti-nuclear activist who claims to be concerned about climate change, has published an emotionally charged diatribe at HuffingtonPost.com against the very idea that the US Senate included emission-free nuclear power in its list of clean energy sources eligible for loan guarantee programs under the stimulus bill….

Tactical Use of Deceptive NIMBY Actions

A recent story by Emily Lambert in Forbes titled Nimby Wars caught my eye while doing some dead tree reading. (I confess; I have subscriptions to a fairly large number of print publications and sometimes leave my computer screen to read them.) The story is about an experienced political operative with the misnomer of Mike…

Iowa Representative Believes the State Could Use Some Nuclear Power

Iowa is the corn capital of America which also makes it the ethanol capital, with an annual current production capacity of 1.5 billion gallons of that gasoline supplement. The trouble is that most of the production plants use a lot of natural gas and electricity produced in coal fired power plants. Some Iowans believe there…

When ExxonMobil Talks, People Should Listen

No matter what you might think about ExxonMobil’s product, you should take a hard look at their business results and recognize that the company is very good at what it does. The people in charge there look far into the future and deep into the past. They know their product, they understand the market, and…

The Atomic Show #125 – Economic Interests in Environmental Politics

It not shocking news to discover that “recovering” politicians often lobby their former colleagues. This show about Gore’s testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is just an example. This week I spent a several hours listening to the first hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee of the current congressional session. Former Vice President…