By Mike Shatzkin The two key battles for climate preservation are to put a price on carbon (best done through carbon-fee-and-dividend) and to stop shutting nuclear plants when their energy is replaced by fossil fuels. Carbon-fee-and-dividend makes CO2-emitting fossil fuels more expensive, putting market forces to work shifting consumption to…

by Mike Shatzkin Two nuclear reactors at Indian Point, about an hour north of New York City, provide about 25% of the city’s electricity and about 80% of downstate New York’s “clean” (i.e. carbon-free) energy. At the end of this coming April, one of those two reactors will shut down…

by Mike Shatzkin A bit over three years after having been able to shift things around in my life to dedicate serious time and effort to fighting climate change, I’ve digested a lot of new information and come to a few conclusions. There is plenty to debate among climate change…

by Mike Shatzkin When you are obsessed by climate change and start to learn more about it and invest time trying to address it, no issue is more vexing than nuclear power. Growing up in a house about a mile or two as the crow flies from Indian Point influences…

by Mike Shatzkin If you are convinced that the need to decarbonize our energy systems and our ecosystems is, literally, existential, there are two urgent items worthy of ongoing political attention. One is that we must institute carbon-fee-and-dividend, with 100 percent of the proceeds being distributed back to each of…

by Mike Shatzkin Steadfast opposition to nuclear power has been a tenet of liberals and environmental activists for decades. …

by Mike Shatzkin There is a clear divide between Democrats and Republicans about the facts of climate change: that it is happening, that it is real, that it is man-made. There’s another big barrier to mobilizing the political will to address it. …