All blog posts tagged with nuclear industry
Nuclear Energy: Environmental Justice Case Study
The United States has beautiful principles of liberty, equality and justice within our political-social framework. Whether or not we actually uphold those logical, moral principles is another story. It is a fact that our country has been built largely upon the misery and exploitation of certain groups. For example: the mass amounts of African slaves that became the economic bonanza of the colonial period; the large scale ethnic cleansing of indigenous peoples which opened up a land grab for the …
Obama Proposed Budget Is Step In Right Direction
Obama's new budget proposal cuts $26 billion in oil and gas industry tax breaks. Tax breaks that he says are "unjustifiable loopholes" for that industry. Furthermore, he is pushing to shutdown the planned construction of the Yucca Mountain radioactive waste facility in Nevada and he has proposed to end government subsidies for new nuclear power plants. The proposed budget will also end a research and development program for designing and equipping our Cold War arsenal with new and improved nu…
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