Anyone who lives in a state such as Vermont, where there is minimal public transportation and everyone drives, and who opposes nuclear power is living in a dream world of misinformation and denial.
And they are hypocrites.
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On Oct. 10, a giant yellow machine called a "concrete cracker" turned a building at the former Vermont Yankee nuclear plant into rubble. Workers have been deconstructing the building, which formerly housed a steam turbine, for several weeks. It was one component of the boiling-water reactor system that, at one time, produced 35% of the state's electric needs. The nuclear plant operated from 1972 until 2014, when its then-owner, Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, closed the plant after it was no...
Twilight Music begins its 13th annual Twilight on The Tavern Lawn series of folk, world beat, rock, jazz, zydeco, Celtic, swing, blues, and bluegrass summer concerts on Sunday, May 31, with an evening of blues by The Chris Kleeman Band. The seven-concert series continues every other Sunday through Aug. 23. All concerts begin at 6 p.m. in downtown Putney on the Putney Tavern lawn (bring a lawn chair or blanket) or at The Putney Community Center at 10 Christian Square...
I think of myself as a lifelong environmentalist, from participating in the first Earth Day and in education about nuclear power via Seabrook activists in the early '70s, through today, when we are at the major decision time regarding the healthy future of the planet. In those many years of observing presidential politics, I have never felt that we had a candidate who truly understood the importance of making real and lasting changes in our economic system in order to...
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