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The California Teachers Association and the $2.5 Billion Crusade Against Nuclear Power
Bad advice drives bad policy, and one of the Golden State’s great destroyers has been the California Teachers Association (CTA). For example, the CTA cosigned an April 2021 joint letter…
by Ken Braun on July 26, 2024

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Film Review of Juice: The Reliability Error
In his latest docuseries energy journalist Robert Bryce examines the dangerous destabilization of the American electricity grid due to flawed policy choices, such as an overreliance on unreliable, weather-dependent wind…
by Ken Braun on July 15, 2024

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Film Review of Juice: The Commodity Error
Electricity is our most important infrastructure, analogous to roads and bridges, but even more critical to survival. To take just one example, water treatment plants and water pumps need power,…
by Ken Braun on July 15, 2024

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Film Review of Juice: The Anti-Human League
The fatal myth driving these errors was that electricity customers wanted to be in a market where the objective was to purchase kilowatts. We didn’t. What we really have always…
by Ken Braun on July 15, 2024

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Film Review of Juice: Victory?
While not unequivocally declaring victory, Juice concluded on a high note, ticking off several important and recent wins for pro-nuclear advocates. Dr. Keefer and his allies recently persuaded the right-leaning…
by Ken Braun on July 15, 2024

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Congress Approves of Nuclear Energy, but There’s Still a $2.3 Billion Annual Opposition
The traditional enemies of America’s largest source of carbon-free electricity show no signs of growing weaker. American nonprofits with a known opposition to nuclear power have a combined annual revenue…
by Ken Braun on July 9, 2024

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The Sequoia Climate Foundation: The “Secretive U.S. Vulture Fund”
Reclusive billionaire C. Frederick Taylor has become a left-wing climate policy influencer to rival Michael Bloomberg. IRS records for 2020 through 2022 show Taylor-funded nonprofits have already spent at least…
by Ken Braun on June 10, 2024

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The Sequoia Climate Foundation: Following Fred’s Money
Wellspring was originally named the Matan B’Seter Foundation in its first tax filing back in 2001. The Hebrew phrase means “anonymous gift.” Twenty-One was listed as a major donor to…
by Ken Braun on June 10, 2024

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The Sequoia Climate Foundation: Funding of Anti-Energy Radicals
During those three years of the Sequoia/Wellspring funding, a cumulative total of at least $76.9 million was sent out to 18 of the most strident, anti-energy zealots in the climate…
by Ken Braun on June 10, 2024

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The Sequoia Climate Foundation: Climate Colonialism
At least $180.5 million of the $450 million in Wellspring/Sequoia climate policy grants given during the 2020 through 2022 donor years—40 percent of the total—went to either nonprofits operating outside…
by Ken Braun on June 10, 2024