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A Day to Remember

Ploughshares Fund

Today, people in communities throughout the nation will stop for a moment to pause and remember the toll of the nation’s nuclear weapons testing program on downwind citizens. Some will take part in official ceremonies; others are small groups of downwinders coming together to do something as simple as light candles in memory of loved ones who have died. They’ve waited a long time to be officially recognized by the government that harmed them.

Electric Utility Week

Platts

despite underperformance in Maryland,
dR providers maintain outlooks for growth

Much like generators that get called on the carpet when
power plants do not perform as expected, demand response
providers are finding that their growth as a resource comes with
increased scrutiny and criticism.
Their outlooks remain positive despite some challenges and
some underperformance in Maryland, officials said last week.
Besides executives at such companies as Enernoc, Energy

Nuclear profiteering

Salt Lake Tribune

How many times must Utahns ask, “What were they thinking?” I hope the green light for building a nuclear power plant on the Green River will turn orange for caution and then red to stop this water-consuming travesty.

Utahns will not benefit from nuclear power, nor will any of the local ranchers or farmers. Neither will the people upstream, nor the 25 million people who drink the Green River water as it flows into the Colorado River and on downstream to California.

EnergySolutions’ end run

Salt Lake Tribune

The controversy over blended waste disposal at EnergySolutions has interesting parallels and differences with an issue that came before us when I was a new member of the Utah Radiation Control Board in the late 1990s. In this context, I offer an additional perspective.

EnergySolutions’ end run

Salt Lake Tribune

The controversy over blended waste disposal at EnergySolutions has interesting parallels and differences with an issue that came before us when I was a new member of the Utah Radiation Control Board in the late 1990s. In this context, I offer an additional perspective.