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The Truth Behind Small Modular Reactors
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by: Steve Thomas
When things are going badly for nuclear power, the nuclear industry offers the promise of new technologies. The latest example is the Small Modular Reactor (SMR), with significantly lower power outputs compared to established reactor designs. As always with nuclear technologies, the public will be footing the bill for this latest folly.
An earlier round of public funding in many countries went to companies that promoted large reactor designs that were supposed to power a Nuclear Renaissance. That renaissance flopped and the cost and time overruns of these reactor designs at their flagship sites are, even by the standards of nuclear power, extraordinary more than thrice the advertised costs and delays of up to a decade. -
The Patient Anguish Is Neverending Act
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by: Kim Callinan
Recently introduced legislation in the U.S. Senate, the so-called Patients Rights Act (S. 1993), should be renamed the Patient Anguish Is Neverending Act (PAIN Act) because thats exactly what will happen if this bill is enacted.
This inhumane bill would withhold federal funding (including Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act) from any healthcare entity that supports their patients with these or any other requests that intentionally shorten or end life, no matter what the patient wants or how much they are suffering.
For example, it would make it virtually impossible for a terminally ill person to end their suffering and die peacefully, even when life-sustaining treatment violates the patients explicit stated wishes verbally or in writing. -
To Tackle Climate Change, We Need to Rethink Our Food Systems
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by: Kathleen Rogers, Shenggen Fan
The way we produce, consume and discard food is unsustainable. A new report from an independent body of scientists warns that we must rethink our food system and quickly to avoid the most devastating impacts of deforestation, biodiversity loss and unchecked climate change.
While its not often recognized, the food industry is almost on par with fossil fuels as a driver of climate change. As todays report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns, to reach the 2030 target of reducing emissions by 50%, we need more than reforms by the energy and transportation sectors we must also reform our land use and agriculture practices. -
Its Time to Disrupt Caregiving
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by: Liz O'Donnell
November is National Family Caregivers Month, a time to honor and recognize the people who care for aging and ill family members. Honor and recognition are important, but we cant stop there. Caregiving disrupts the lives of the more than forty million people in this country who are assisting an aging or ill family member. As a result of their caregiving duties, their health, their work, their ability to save for retirement, and the quality of care they are able to provide, are all impacted. This November we must move beyond honoring and recognizing caregivers. We need to disrupt caregiving.
According to the AARP, the typical caregiver spends 24.
Too Many American Lives Hinge on Drug Prices
Cape restaurant owner endorses minimum wage ballot issue
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There's Lots 2 Love About the School Lunch Program
SNAP Program Critical to People with disabilities
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Too Many American Lives Hinge on Drug Prices (by: Gail deVore) in the Vilas County News-Review
There's Lots 2 Love About the School Lunch Program (by: Tracey Ritchie) in the Bay City Tribune
ICE Policies Hurt Our Communities Beyond The Border (by: Hamid Yazdan Pahah) in the Petersburg Progress-Index
The Toxic Effects Of Detention Centers For Young Children (by: Charles Zeanah, Carole Shauffer) in the Leesville Daily Leader
Use A Public Health Approach To Reduce Gun Violence (by: Daniel Blumenthal) in the Spring Grove Herald
Keep SNAP in Farm Bill (by: Ashley Matthews) in the Hinesville Coastal Courier
Trump, GOP Get Failing Grades On New Tax Law (by: Frank Clemente) in the Atlanta Inquirer
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