InfluenceWatch Friday
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The Rising Seas
In "An Inconvenient Truth" (2006) film, former Vice President Al Gore proposed the Greenland ice sheet might melt, causing a 20-foot rise in sea levels, flooding Florida among other places.
Nuclear Energy: Rich Climate NGOs Have Nuked Clean Power
The Trump administration wants to quadruple American nuclear power output by 2050. There is no physical challenge to this goal, as France—now the world’s seventh largest economy—launched an aggressive buildout…
Biden Administration Approved $485 Million for Anti-Nuclear Nonprofits
During the last half of the Biden administration, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm began talking up the virtues of reliable, safe, and carbon-free nuclear energy. In August 2024, she called for…
Wind Turbines Produce Drama, Cash, and Some Electricity: Big Trouble at Biglow Canyon
The recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act is expected pay out $400 billion in carbon and climate policy pork, and much of it is crashing down on weather-restricted energy systems such…
Wind Turbines Produce Drama, Cash, and Some Electricity: “Unexpected”
By July 2023 ReNew Economy, "Unexpected and increasing wind turbine failure rates, largely in newer and bigger models, are savaging the profits of some of the world’s biggest manufacturers, as…
Wind Turbines Produce Drama, Cash, and Some Electricity: “Extraordinarily Rare”
Wind-industry spokesman typically characterize wind turbine failures as "very rare," "isolated," and even "extraordinarily rare." But wind turbine fires and other failures have happened often enough to raise serious questions…
Wind Turbines Produce Drama, Cash, and Some Electricity: Support for Anti-Nuclear Nonprofits
In 2011, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) announced it was partnering with the Vestas “WindMade” campaign. WWF is anything but a champion of nuclear power. Throughout 2020 and 2021 the…
The Richest Opponents of Carbon-Free Nuclear Energy
InfluenceWatch's new movement profile, the Opposition to Nuclear Energy, uncovers the hundreds of well-funded left-leaning nonprofits that oppose the use of zero-carbon nuclear energy—including nearly all of the nation’s largest…
Facebook’s ESG Agenda Went Down to Georgia (and Trashed a Trophy Fishing Lake)
Meta, the parent firm of Facebook, was in the media promoting its environmental, social and governance virtues in December 2021. That preening didn’t end well for the company this month after…