“nuclear energy” on The Daily Caller

Last week’s central Virginia earthquake caused 25 spent-fuel storage casks — each weighing 115 tons — to move on their concrete pad at Dominion Virginia Power’s North Anna nuclear power plant. (more)

BERLIN (AP) — Europe’s economic powerhouse, Germany, announced plans Monday to abandon nuclear energy over the next 11 years, outlining an ambitious strategy in the wake of Japan’s Fukushima disaster to replace atomic power with renewable energy sources. (more)

Let’s start with some disappointing news: Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin’s planned joint testimony before Congress was canceled this week! Boring old budget debates got in the way. Now how will we ever know whether or not these two famous actors are in favor of federal funding for the arts?! (more)

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is planning to revive the failed energy debate in the Senate. After abandoning cap and trade legislation earlier this year after working with Democrats for months, Graham announced Thursday he is revisiting the topic. (more)

If you are (a) an environmentalist, and (b) a Burkean, how do you establish a position on global warming? Are you conflicted, confused? It so happens I am (a) an environmentalist and (b) a Burkean, and I am neither conflicted nor confused. To the contrary, the precepts of Edmund Burke provide me with a position on the issue that I take to be both sound and clear. Moreover, Burke provides a useful guide to remedial action. (more)

It is clear that voters across America sent Washington a message on Election Day. The pundits will debate the exact meaning of that message for weeks to come, but there can be no doubt that the state of our nation’s economy was at the top of their minds in the voting booth. Americans want more jobs, less spending and a sounder, saner fiscal policy. (more)

Americans will wake up on November 3rd to a changed political landscape. Republicans will celebrate. Democrats will recriminate. The underlying fear of America’s downfall that motivated voters to redistribute seats in the House and Senate, however, will remain. The question they asked themselves before the election will still beg for an answer. Is America’s decline inevitable, or can we avert the disasters so many are predicting and restore the American Dream? (more)

In February of this year, President Obama announced his support for billions of dollars in loan guarantees for two new nuclear reactors in Georgia. This is the first nuclear power plant project to break ground in nearly three decades. (more)

The “top priority is to recover and rebuild from a recession,” stated Obama in his Oval Office address Tuesday. But his actual comments were to the contrary. Everything he said will hurt the American financial situation, sending us further into debt and insolvency! (more)

In my long career working with low-income and minority families in Alabama and elsewhere across the South, I’ve seen first-hand how groups are disproportionately affected by the cost of rising electricity bills. (more)

State and county leaders from South Carolina and Georgia are protesting unfulfilled promises from the federal government on disposing nuclear waste – and their voices are being heard. (more)

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Yesterday, President Obama proposed plans to open offshore drilling and exploration along the southern Atlantic coast, a portion of the eastern Gulf of Mexico and some of the coast of Alaska. This is a welcome step forward by the previously reluctant administration. Remember that President Bush lifted the ban on drilling offshore in June 2008 and the Congress followed by passing legislation in October 2008 when the cost of gasoline hit $4 per gallon. Having advocated for seven years for the federal government to allow Virginia to safely explore for oil and gas off our coast, it is good to see the president following the law. (more)

I slept on my pullout sofa the other night, just to mix things up. It was fun—felt like a vacation from my bed. It’s taking every ounce of energy I have not to surgically examine the fact that the only kind of getaway I can manage these days is one in which I travel a mere 17 feet and it’s over in about six hours. (more)

The president over the past few weeks has sounded an awful lot like the centrist-promoted candidate we heard from in 2008. Will it lead to a repeat of 2009 or a renewal of his presidential promise to the nation? (more)

(AP) President Obama is endorsing nuclear energy like never before, trying to win over Republicans and moderate Democrats on climate and energy legislation. (more)

In the late 1970s, Jimmy Carter’s energy policy came to be summed up by an article of clothing: a cardigan sweater. More recently, we’ve been told that we are “addicted to oil” and that we need to “drill, baby, drill.” President Obama’s first State of the Union address seemingly melded them all together. (more)

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