by Snake River Alliance | Aug 13, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Idaho Energy Updates
The long-awaited national Clean Power Plan has been released and is still being sliced and diced every which-way to see how Idaho and other states will be affected. Now that the plan is out, attention shifts to Idaho and all states as we sit down to craft the best...
by Snake River Alliance | Jul 29, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Nuclear, Spent Nuclear Fuel
Starting in 1957, every scrap of spent fuel from the nuclear Navy has come to Idaho. The nuclear Navy plans to continue to send its spent fuel to the Idaho National Laboratory for the foreseeable future. The nuclear Navy is now proposing to build a new facility at INL...
by Snake River Alliance | Jul 29, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is about to roll out one of the most sweeping and complex environmental programs ever – the Clean Power Plan, designed to sharply reduce climate-changing greenhouse gases spewed from the nation’s coal-fired power plants. The...
by Snake River Alliance | Jun 3, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Nuclear, Spent Nuclear Fuel
At the beginning of 2015, the DOE succeeded in wresting a preliminary agreement from Idaho’s Governor and Attorney General to allow two shipments of “research quantities” of commercial spent nuclear fuel into Idaho. The proposal, if implemented, will almost certainly...
by Snake River Alliance | Jun 2, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Idaho Energy Updates
Forty-four percent of Idahoans believe the climate is changing and that climate change is a “crisis,” according to a survey by pollster Dan Jones & Associates and commissioned by Zions Bank. The survey results were reported Monday in Idaho Politics Weekly, an...
