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Framing a discussion on nuclear power

CCR BLOG, Mike_Shatzkin_BlogsBy CCR@IIXXI8 April 9, 2021

I was delighted to be given the opportunity to sponsor this Our Energy Policy session on nuclear power. I want to tell you why. In...

Introducing climatechangeresources.org, organizing and contextualizing the challenge we all face

CCR BLOG, Mike_Shatzkin_Blogs, Press_BlogsBy CCR@IIXXI8 November 17, 2020

It was in a blog post in February of 2017 that I first wrote about Climate Change Resources, the passion project that I and Lena Tabori, another publishing lifer,...

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

CCR BLOG, Mike_Shatzkin_BlogsBy CCR@IIXXI8 February 19, 2020

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...

On Climate Change: The Three Discussions Most Worth Having

CCR BLOG, Mike_Shatzkin_BlogsBy CCR@IIXXI8 December 10, 2019

A bit over three years after having been able to shift things around in my life to dedicate serious time and effort to fighting climate...

CO2 is what humanity must fear, far more than radiation exposure from nuclear power

CCR BLOG, Mike_Shatzkin_BlogsBy CCR@IIXXI8 May 9, 2019

When you are obsessed by climate change and start to learn more about it and invest time trying to address it, no issue is more...

The two immediate imperatives: carbon-fee-and-dividend and rethinking nuclear

CCR BLOG, Mike_Shatzkin_BlogsBy CCR@IIXXI8 February 26, 2019

If you are convinced that the need to decarbonize our energy systems and our ecosystems is, literally, existential, there are two urgent items worthy of...

The fastest way to a carbon tax is for democrats to be non-partisan

CCR BLOG, Mike_Shatzkin_BlogsBy CCR@IIXXI8 January 2, 2018

There is very broad acceptance of the idea that we have to “put a price on carbon” — meaning tax fossil fuels — to make markets work against the...

What every concerned citizen needs to understand about the CO²challenge facing humankind

CCR BLOG, Mike_Shatzkin_BlogsBy CCR@IIXXI8 November 27, 2017

There is very broad acceptance of the idea that we have to “put a price on carbon” — meaning tax fossil fuels — to make markets work against the...

Changing the political environment: taxing carbon by the ton and distributing the receipts back by the person

CCR BLOG, Mike_Shatzkin_BlogsBy CCR@IIXXI8 September 13, 2017

There is very broad acceptance of the idea that we have to “put a price on carbon” — meaning tax fossil fuels — to make markets work against the...

Crafting a publishing strategy to address a very specific need

CCR BLOG, Mike_Shatzkin_BlogsBy CCR@IIXXI8 February 14, 2017

There is very broad acceptance of the idea that we have to “put a price on carbon” — meaning tax fossil fuels — to make markets work against the...