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Germany’s green push to move from carbon fuels and nuclear energy to renewables has “failed”, a state Prime Minister has declared.

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that there are things like promoting nuclear power and natural gas that can help the environment and can actually get passed. He also stated, “You can scream, and you

(AFP) – Russia is using Europe’s largest nuclear power plant as a base to store weapons including “missile systems” and shell the surrounding areas in Ukraine, an official with Kyiv’s nuclear agency said Friday, while nearly the entire country was placed on air raid alert.

The European Parliament on Wednesday voted not to block a proposed rule that would designate gas and nuclear power plants as “climate-friendly.” The rule will take effect unless 20 of the European Union’s (EU) 27 member states band together to stop it.

Hardline green agenda activist Greta Thunberg showed up at Glastonbury to lecture mostly “middle-class concertgoers” on climate change.

Germany’s Finance Minister has called for the country to keep using nuclear power to ease the ongoing energy crisis, despite one energy tsar in the country labelling it “backwards”.

Germany’s leftist Chancellor’s plan to phase out nuclear during an ongoing energy crisis has been slammed as “complete nonsense”.

Nuclear power in the United States dates back to 1958, peaking at 104 operating nuclear reactors in 2012, but plants have been closing steadily since.

Sen. Josh Hawley calls the woman the Senate approved to head the DOE nuclear program a “leftwing radical” for her social media postings.

The past two years have been a comprehensive disaster for the environmental movement, from the pandemic shattering Green New Deal illusions of what a “sustainable lifestyle” might look like, to polluting powerhouses like China and India burning literal mountains of coal without the slightest concern for the climate change movement.

Chinese state media announced on Wednesday that coal production will be increased by a whopping 300 million tons in 2022 to “ensure energy supplies,” making a mockery of Beijing’s breezy promises to climate change activists.

The UK government will seek to construct eight nuclear power plants and expand domestic oil production in order to ensure energy security.

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — A series of blasts has torn through the Ukrainian city of Enerhodar nearby the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Ukraine’s state nuclear agency reported about Saturday’s attacks on its official Telegram channel.

Boris Johnson’s green agenda appears to have fallen by the wayside, with the British PM now pushing for a so-called ‘dash to nuclear’.

Belgium has delayed killing off its use of nuclear power generation over what it called a ‘chaotic geopolitical environment’.

Populist Sweden Democrats (SD) leader Jimmie Åkesson has slammed European Green politicians, blaming their policies for making Europe reliant on Russian energy and enriching the country

Germany will close all of its nuclear power plants by the end of this year, despite the nation’s already crippling addiction to Russian natural gas.

While what exactly transpired at the plant and why is contested, both sides agree Europe’s largest nuclear plant is now in Russian hands. 

Peter Schweizer’s new book “Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win” devotes considerable attention to the troubling relationship between Microsoft founder Bill Gates and the Chinese Communist regime. One of the most disturbing episodes in that relationship occurred when Gates stepped outside the realm of personal computers to help the Chinese improve their nuclear reactors.

The website oilprice.com posted an analysis about how the push for green energy years before Russia invaded Ukraine – and on steroids since Joe Biden became president – is to blame for soaring oil prices and foreign policy weakness.

Swedish authorities are puzzled by reports that drones last week were seen hovering over two nuclear power plants on the Baltic coast.

Germany is now ‘dramatically behind’ its CO2 emissions target shortly after it abandoned half of its remaining nuclear plants, calling the tech ‘dangerous’.

The European Commission has issued a draft recommendation including nuclear energy and natural gas on a list of investments that qualify as “green” energy.

BERLIN (AP) – The German government said Monday that it considers nuclear energy dangerous and objects to European Union proposals that would let the technology remain part of the bloc´s plans for a climate-friendly future.

Germany is shutting down half of the six nuclear plants it still has in operation, a year before the country will shut all nuclear plants.

Nuclear scientists based out of Tennessee said the fallout from UT-Battelle’s vaccine mandate “will be felt in the months to come.”

Greta Thunberg, alongside other climate crazies, has decried the possible inclusion of nuclear and gas in the EU’s green investment playbook.

Appearing Thursday on The Morning Ritual Show with Garret Lewis, Arizona Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters took aim at President Joe Biden’s “American Last” energy policies and expressed support for boosting investment in nuclear power to help the U.S. achieve energy independence.

Iran on Tuesday charged Israel with an attack on a nuclear facility near Tehran, the official IRNA news agency reported, walking back its claims made at the time that it had thwarted the sabotage.

A sabotage attempt on one of the facilities of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization failed Wednesday and there were no casualties or damage, Iranian media reported, adding the event is being investigated.

The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) announced on Monday that it had ordered a “temporary shutdown” at the Bushehr nuclear power plant.

The Chinese government announced on Wednesday that five of the fuel rods in the No.1 reactor at the Taishan nuclear power plant have broken, increasing radiation levels and releasing gases inside the reactor.

Chinese officials and state media continued insisting on Tuesday that everything is “normal” at the Taishan nuclear reactor in Guangdong province, dismissing all reports to the contrary as anti-China hysteria.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in ordered officials on Wednesday to explore filing an international court injunction against Japan over its recent decision to release 1.25 million tons of contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday opposed Japan’s proposed release of contaminated wastewater from the Fukushima reactor and suggested shipping the radioactive waste to the United States instead.

China’s state-run Global Times reported on Friday that the Communist government plans to increase carbon emissions for at least nine more years.