Sentences with phrase «cleaner than the last generation»

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When I offered the job to Mark, a former Breakthrough Generation Fellow, last summer, I told him that if he ever discovered that solar and batteries were cheaper, cleaner or otherwise better than nuclear power, he had to tell me at once, or I would fire him.

As a result, even in a future with no Clean Power Plan, natural gas and renewables produce much more electricity generation in this year's AEO than in last year's projections.

On the environment, increased use of cleaner - burning natural gas is main reason U.S. carbon emissions from electricity generation are lower than they've been in more than 20 years, a trend President Obama acknowledged last week.

According to the AP, new tests have shown that the levels of tritium in the wells at the Vernon, Vermont site are more than three - and - a-half times the federal safety standard.This comes hot on the heels of President Obama's interest in nuclear power, which included a call for «building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants» in last week's State of the Union address, plus $ 54.5 billion earmarked for nuclear power projects.