Category: Press Releases
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As Public Service Commission Revises Its Plan To Subsidize Nuclear Plants In The NYS Clean Energy Standard, AGREE & NIRS File Legal Memorandum Challenging The Executive Overreach, Legal Problems, And Soaring Costs Of The Proposal
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“The new proposal filed today by the Department of Public Service seems like an ill-conceived attempt to salvage a legally questionable policy that suffers from no technical or policy rationale.
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CNY Residents To Say Yes To Renewables And No To Nuclear Energy At Public Hearing
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The hearing is the latest in a series being held across the state on the NY Public Service Commission’s proposed Clean Energy Standard policy.
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AGREE Statement On NY Senate Proposal To Raid Renewable Funding To Prop Up Unprofitable Nuclear
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It has been long-standing state policy that nuclear power is not considered clean and is not eligible for NYSERDA resources.
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CNY Groups To Hold Press Conference Supporting Closure Of FitzPatrick Nuclear Reactor And Calling For A Just Transition
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Advocates will discuss the Cuomo administration’s recent signal that it may incentivize utilities to purchase nuclear energy
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Environmentalists Hail Decision To Shutter FitzPatrick Nuclear Reactor And Renew Call For Just Transition For Workers, Renewable Energy, And Responsible Decommissioning
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AGREE and NIRS today praised the decision to close and renewed their call for Entergy and state officials to work to ensure a just transition for workers and a safe and responsible decommissioning.
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FitzPatrick Reactor Can Be Replaced By Clean And Renewable Energy At Lower Cost
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Jessica Azulay, Program Director of Alliance for a Green Economy, made the following statement in connection with the report: “This analysis incorporates a vision supported by hundreds of New Yorkers in the region who want to see a transition away from dangerous and dirty nuclear power at the same time that the state is transitioning…
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Consumer Watchdogs Criticize Proposed Deal To Shorten The Subsidy For Ginna Nuclear Reactor, Saying It Doesn’t Go Far Enough
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The proposed agreement is better than the original bad deal that RG&E and Constellation tried to ram through before anyone could take a hard look.
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Proposed Nuclear Bailout Would Make Rochester Residents “April Fools”
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The contract, as proposed, would be retroactive to April 1, which means that RG&E customers would start accruing a debt to Exelon beginning today, to be collected, with interest, if the deal gains approval.
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Latest Inspection Of FitzPatrick Nuclear Plant Reveals Unreported Hazards
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Anti-nuclear watchdogs today pointed to the violations revealed at FitzPatrick as evidence that Entergy is mismanaging both plants and that no subsidies should be extended to FitzPatrick.
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AGREE Statement On The Proposed New York “Clean Energy Standard”
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“But the policy released today also includes a mandate that utility customers must prop up the uneconomical and dangerous nuclear power plants in Upstate New York.