NYC is about to lose most of its clean power; and city residents and elected officials hardly seem to know it

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NYC is about to lose most of its clean power; and city residents and elected officials hardly seem to know it

Mike Shatzkin
By Mike Shatzkin and 02/19/20
Two nuclear reactors at Indian Point, about an hour north of New York City, provide about 25% of the city’s electricity and about 80% of downstate New York’s “clean” (i.e. carbon-free) energy. At the end of this coming April, one of those two reactors will shut down. A year later,…
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