Sentences with phrase «against the nuclear power plant»

The groups against the nuclear power plant bailout have begun a grassroots movement that they liken to the successful anti-fracking efforts that led to a state ban on the natural gas extraction process.

Brodsky met the 91 - year - old folk singer and environmentalist when he represented him in a successful lawsuit against the nuclear power plant Indian Point.

The groups against the nuclear power plant bail out have begun a grassroots movement that they liken to the successful anti fracking efforts that led to a state ban on the natural gas extraction process.

Not exact matches

The battle is heating up over a statewide electric rate increase to subsidize upstate nuclear power plants that pits Governor Andrew Cuomo against a coalition of «good - government groups.»

It will also include incentives for upstate nuclear facilities, which provide a significant source of carbon - free power, but are struggling financially against natural gas plants.

The administration's treatment of nuclear facilities could serve as a national model for other states, where nuclear plants are also struggling to compete against cheaper power sources.

Former Assemblyman Richard Brodsky has scored a victory in his long - running battle against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Entergy, the owner of Indian Point, thanks to a federal appeals court that reversed a lower court ruling on the commission's responsibility to involve and notify the public before exempting the Hudson Valley nuclear power plant from health and safety requirNuclear Regulatory Commission and Entergy, the owner of Indian Point, thanks to a federal appeals court that reversed a lower court ruling on the commission's responsibility to involve and notify the public before exempting the Hudson Valley nuclear power plant from health and safety requirnuclear power plant from health and safety requirements.

At 7 a.m., Food and Water Watch, the New York Public Interest Research Group and activists and supporters of the Stop the Cuomo Tax campaign rally in Times Square, Penn Station and Grand Central against tax increase to support nuclear power plants in upstate New York, Grand Central Terminal by # 7 Train, Penn Station, LIRR area, and Times Square by Shuttle and 2 and 3 train tracks, Manhattan.

For years, the Cuomo administration, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and their hysterical and retrograde antinuclear allies, including Riverkeeper, have waged a shameless campaign of fear and loathing against the Indian Point nuclear power plant.

Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins began his efforts to change energy policies at protests against the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant in New Hampshire in 1977.

The other side of the «green» argument against nuclear power is the fear by some climate scientists that carbon emissions in New York could increase by more than 31 million metric tons during the next two years, if a number of nuclear power plants close.

In the Internet age, in which the Chinese public is becoming increasingly vocal about their rights and mobilizing on social networks, popular protests like the demonstrations in the city of Jiangmen against the processing plant suggest a wider backlash against nuclear power.

«We've been worried since 9/11 about how to protect against bad guys hijacking an aircraft and crashing it into a nuclear power plant upwind of a heavily populated area,» says David Lochbaum, director of the Union of Concerned Scientists's Nuclear Safety Project, a group that monitors the performance of nuclear plants and the NRC, which regulatenuclear power plant upwind of a heavily populated area,» says David Lochbaum, director of the Union of Concerned Scientists's Nuclear Safety Project, a group that monitors the performance of nuclear plants and the NRC, which regulateNuclear Safety Project, a group that monitors the performance of nuclear plants and the NRC, which regulatenuclear plants and the NRC, which regulates them.

More than two dozen senators with nuclear power plants in their states nonetheless voted against Yucca Mountain.

There's a montage of the group walking against changing backdrops of failed industry — for instance, a row of nuclear power plants and an abandoned mineral mine.

Grand Central Blue is the Warmest Color star Lea Seydoux puts in her second turn against A Prophet «s Tahar Rahim in this French / Austrian production about a risky love affair set at the nuclear power plant where they both work.

Against them, otherwise, world will full of nuclear power plants, nuclear waste, they are dangerous and collapsed by earthquake, flood, sea level rising and terriorists.

First of all, I spent much of the 1980s testifying at state public utility commissions against new nuclear power plants on economic grounds only.

Actively connecting with local communities So far, the Biketour cyclists have already joined a protest against a planned nuclear power plant at Belene, Bulgaria.

Given the nuclear solution requires new reactor designs yet to be built even for demonstration and test purposes, and then the complexities of siting nuclear power plants near the calling water they need while defending them against flood waters makes construction of tested designs take a decade.

Earlier in January, California regulators approved Pacific Gas & Electric's application to retire the Diablo Canyon plant by 2025, following a protracted battle over the generating station that pitted local economic interests against environmentalists and other opponents of nuclear power.

The 74 - page report assesses nuclear power's key problems and offers recommendations to strengthen nuclear plant safety, better protect facilities against sabotage and attack, ensure the safe disposal of nuclear waste, and minimize the risk that nuclear power will help more nations and terrorists acquire nuclear weapons.

If you've been paying attention to the power markets in recent years, you know that merchant coal and nuclear power plants are struggling to compete against natural gas - fired generation and renewable

• Nearly three dozen US nuclear power plants are inadequately protected against major flooding from an upstream dam failure, flooding that could easily lead to an accident on the scale of the 2011 Fukushima Disaster.

Ramsauer warned against the hasty shutdown of half of the country's nuclear power plants in the wake of the Fukushima disaster back in 2011, «but no one wanted to listen».

As a lawyer in the 1980s, Cohen fought against the Seabrook nuclear power plant in New Hampshire.

Nuclear power plants have no legal responsibility for civil cases against accidents that might happen....

Earthjustice is litigating in Ohio against proposals by two major utilities to force customers to prop up eight outdated power plants — seven coal and one nuclear — for the next 15 to 35 years.

In 1989, the elder Cuomo shut down a fully - constructed nuclear power plant on Long Island after protests against it by Sierra Club, Audubon and other anti-nuclear groups.

Xcel was also caught testifying just three days later that, when concerning its nuclear power plant, non-fossil generation (like solar...) did provide «a valuable hedge against potential increases in fossil fuel costs» which have been «extremely volatile.»

Aside from the public perception that nuclear power plants are an enormous potential hazard, the high initial cost of these plants and the high cost of closing them when they get old works against attracting investment.

Nearly three dozen nuclear power plants are inadequately protected against major flooding guaranteed to occur after an upstream dam failure — flooding that could easily lead to an accident or meltdown on the scale of the 2011 nuclear power disaster in Fukushima, Japan.

A frequent argument against renewable sources of electricity is that they are much too expensive to compete with nuclear or fossil fuel power plants.

In the afternoon, we were joined by several local activists from the nearby town of Plogoff, who successfully campaigned against a new nuclear power plant being built on the coastline in the 1970s.

Friends of the Earth Europe has expressed alarm that the Heads of State cast a role for nuclear power in Europe's energy future, without offering solutions to its unsolved problems: how to treat and store waste for thousands of years, the risk of serious accidents, the proliferation of nuclear weapon material and how to secure nuclear plants against terrorist attacks.

December 14, 2015, The Legal Intelligencer: Defamation Case Against Owner of Nuclear Power Plant Survives