Region
825 mentions for region: Southeast
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Executive Director Dr. Stephen Smith of SACE writes a guest post on CleanTechnica connecting fossil fuel combustion to extreme weather events, citing record temperatures and billion-dollar disasters. Smith identifies utility executives at Southern Company, Duke, and…
“This Commission decision halts all final licensing decisions -- but not the licensing proceedings themselves -- until NRC completes a thorough study of the environmental impacts of storing and disposing of spent nuclear fuel.”
“We believe it is appropriate to halt nuclear licensing decisions and stop creating an inter-generational debt of nuclear waste that will burden our children and grandchildren for centuries to come”
“Waste is an environmental concern, it's a public health concern and it's become a security concern because we live in a different world now”
The article announces that the Tennessee Valley Authority must conduct public hearings on its 25-year Integrated Resource Plan (Energy Vision 2020) for the first time in over 60 years, a requirement mandated by the 1992 Energy…
“The very large exposure to losses for U.S. taxpayers should the Vogtle project go awry, along with the known complexities of building two new reactors, underscore the importance of an objective and unbiased review of the project, its borrowers, and the appropriate credit subsidy level”
Forest Bradley-Wright, energy efficiency director for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, argues that energy efficiency is a cost-effective and climate-critical strategy that utilities have underinvested in due to outdated business models. The op-ed advocates for…
An analysis of five key factors shaping Southeast solar financing in 2020, including the maturation of the solar industry, new market entrants, and corporate/regulatory developments. The article references Southern Alliance for Clean Energy's solar capacity projections…
“The Plains & Eastern Clean Line will create jobs, while enabling billions of dollars of investments in Oklahoma's clean energy industry”
“Nuclear power is really too costly to continue in its present form”
“The nonpower side may be small, but it's the most visible part of the TVA mission”
SACE's comprehensive report 'Code Red Alert' examines the dangers of nuclear power in Georgia, including radiation health effects, nuclear waste storage problems, terrorism vulnerabilities, and excessive water consumption. The report details existing nuclear facilities in Georgia…
“You can't come into a community and say, 'Hey, wake up. Look at what's wrong.' You have to learn the community. When you say this is such a backward and slow place, you put people on the fences because you're making them feel right away that they're ignorant and don't care about the community.”
“The industry never really backed off from building new plants”
“With more than 20 years of tracking the industry, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy strongly warns against ongoing and increased reliance on this dangerous energy source.”
