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Nuclear and Fossil Fuels Join Forces to Undermine Renewables (www.bloomberg.com)

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The once unlikely alliance took root in Texas and now reaches right into the White House, where President Trump wants to ban wind energy projects.

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[–] hanrahan@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/28/after-a-career-as-an-environment-writer-heres-what-i-have-learned

And there has been another – in my view, very sinister – development, which has put back the cause of action on climate change into very dangerous territory: the latest “nuclear renaissance”.

The government subsidies are simply huge: a nuclear tax is being levied on hard pressed consumers. What is the government thinking of? The fossil fuel industry, which has thrown its weight behind nuclear power, is of course delighted; all these decades of new construction without any electricity to show for it gives at least another decade or two of unabated burning gas