Friday, December 2, 2016

Cuomo's nuclear subsidy plan faces another legal challenge
https://newsdesk.moreover.com/click/?p=Q1QyL2E9Mjg3OTUwNzQ3NzMmcD0xNGUmdj0xJng9U1FCVDVTa2x3MmVvY01zY2tDYldXQSZ1MT1ORCZ1Mj1nMTA2Ng&a=28795074773&f=TmV3cw&s=ZXhwb3J0&u=amtvYmxpY2hAYW5zLm9yZw&cn=QW1lcmljYW4gTnVjbGVhciBTb2NpZXR5&ci=416&i=0&e=UE9MSVRJQ08gUHJv&d=1104&t=3&k=189032&ck=2796619de5274051e03690ebff81a17d

Girl's death reveals risks of obsolete Detroit power lines

The electrocution of a 12-year-old Detroit girl has exposed a new risk in a city that's turning the corner nearly two years after emerging from bankruptcy: miles of obsolete power lines that could fall from poles and turn deadly. … Continue Reading http://www.pennenergy.com/articles/pennenergy/2016/12/power-cable-girl-s-death-reveals-risks-of-obsolete-detroit-power-lines.html?cmpid=enl_PennEnergy_PennEnergyWeeklyPowerUpdates_2016-12-02&email_address=micheletkearney@gmail.com&eid=288118515&bid=1603128

Obama's dirty secret: the fossil fuel projects the US littered around the world

Through the Export-Import Bank, the Obama administration has spent nearly $34bn on dirty energy plants in countries from India to Australia to South Africa
by Sonali Prasad, Jason Burke, Michael Slezak and Oliver Milman

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/dec/01/obama-fossil-fuels-us-export-import-bank-energy-projects?utm_source=MIT+TR+Newsletters&utm_campaign=36119f8317-newsletters-the-download&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_997ed6f472-36119f8317-153856085&goal=0_997ed6f472-36119f8317-153856085&mc_cid=36119f8317&mc_eid=e25735476a

The Paris Motor Show Confirms It: The Future Is Electric

Any automaker worth its salt is showing off a battery-powered car.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602512/the-paris-motor-show-confirms-it-the-future-is-electric/?utm_source=MIT+TR+Newsletters&utm_campaign=36119f8317-newsletters-the-download&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_997ed6f472-36119f8317-153856085&goal=0_997ed6f472-36119f8317-153856085&mc_cid=36119f8317&mc_eid=e25735476a

US DOE sells depleted uranium for laser enrichment

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/UF-US-DOE-sells-depleted-uranium-for-laser-enrichment-1111167.html

Iraq Can’t Commit To OPEC’s Oil Output Deal

By By Bilal Wahab, / Thursday, December 1, 2016 10:00 AM

Despite pressure from OPEC to cap its oil production, the Iraqi government can neither afford a production cut nor enforce it upon the Kurdistan Regional Government. Under tremendous fiscal pressure, OPEC members may cut a deal in Vienna this week that would cap oil production in order to raise global prices. The deal is being

Keep reading →http://breakingenergy.com/2016/12/01/iraq-cant-commit-to-opecs-oil-output-deal/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=38594903&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_D_xdaHi_zIX1jcF4BOWavAOn7uGDxp-ID8ZMVqrph-T6UQxPNTunU3KurQMPi4YDMcXltd5U_Gw5L3gVdJL8osiJQew&_hsmi=38594903

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Friday, December 2, 2016

Friday, December 2, 2016

OPLAN 2045: Preparing for nuclear disarmament

James E. Doyle

With the nuclear-weapon states and their allies headed away from the increased security a world without nuclear weapons would bring, it is time to act to create a multilateral plan for verifiable nuclear disarmament by the year 2045, 100 years after the first use of nuclear weapons.

Will climate-change efforts affect EU–Russian relations? (Probably not.)

Rachel S. Salzman

Given the fact that changes in the European energy market can have significant geopolitical effects, it might seem like EU emissions-cutting policies could cause serious changes in the EU–Russia relationship. From the November/December subscription journal.

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New Voices of Tomorrow essay: Who killed the US-Russia plutonium agreement, and does it really matter?

Darya Dolzikova

If a nuclear security agreement dies, but it wasn’t really about the nuclear security, does it matter who killed it?

Chairman Xi abandons banning the bomb

Hua Han, Gregory Kulacki, Rajesh Rajagopalan

Greg Kulacki closes the second round of our new debate on China's role in the nuclear order by observing that Beijing's position on the UN resolution to ban nuclear weapons could be a bellwether for how China will behave in a world that's no longer ordered around the United States.

What We're Reading

Dan Drollette Jr.

This week we look at a study from the latest issue of Nature, which finds that as soil warms due to climate change, vast amounts of carbon and methane will be released into the atmosphere.

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Thursday, December 1, 2016

Donald Trump's Biggest Headache: Russia's Nuclear Weapons | The National Interest

Next Big Future: China's plans to begin converting coal plants to walk away safe pebble bed nuclear starting in the 2020s

European Union Climate Policies Aim To Cut CO2 Emissions By 40% By 2030, Lead Clean Energy Transition | CleanTechnica

President Obama Spent ‘Unprecedented’ Billions on Fossil Fuel Projects Around the World

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/obama_spent_an_unprecedented_billions_on_fossil_20161201

The nuclear renaissance?

http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/12/01/the-nuclear-renaissance/