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Kristi E. Swartz and Edward Klump, E&E News reporters
Taking Florida's nuclear plants offline won't stress the grid, experts say, because electricity use is dropping as thousands flee the state in advance of Hurricane Irma.
The social justice protests sweeping the country have forced mainstream environmental groups to confront their largely white staffs, a history of tensions with people of color, and, in some cases, racist and anti-immigrant pasts.
By Jeremy P. Jacobs, Nick Sobczyk and Timothy Cama in Greenwire
Gov. Roy Cooper had barely finished talking about the need to make North Carolina a clean energy state when a group held up signs and started chanting, "Act, act, act."
By Kristi E. Swartz in Energywire
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The social justice protests sweeping the country have forced mainstream environmental groups to confront their largely white staffs, a history of tensions with people of color, and, in some cases, racist and anti-immigrant pasts.
By Jeremy P. Jacobs, Nick Sobczyk and Timothy Cama in Greenwire
Gov. Roy Cooper had barely finished talking about the need to make North Carolina a clean energy state when a group held up signs and started chanting, "Act, act, act."
By Kristi E. Swartz in Energywire