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SD public defense duties shift from counties to state; SCOTUS appears skeptical of restricting government communications with social media companies; Trump lawyers say he can't make bond; new scholarships aim to connect class of 2024 to high-demand jobs.

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Advocates Tell PSC Nukes Are Not Clean Energy

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Monday, May 16, 2016   

ALBANY, N.Y. - Renewables yes, nuclear no, that's the message environmentalists want the Public Service Commission to hear.

The public comment period on a proposed Clean Energy Standard ends on June 6.

Jessica Azulay, program director with the Alliance for a Green Economy, supports only part of the proposal, the part that requires utilities to generate 50 percent of the state's electricity from renewables by 2030.

"Unfortunately, also tucked into this so-called Clean Energy Standard is a massive consumer subsidy for dirty, dangerous and expensive nuclear power plants," says Azulay.

The governor says three upstate power plants, FitzPatrick, Ginna and Nine Mile Point, are critical to achieving reductions in carbon dioxide and other harmful emissions called for in the Clean Energy Standard.

But FitzPatrick, which is losing money, is already scheduled to close next year. Azulay says the governor's plan would force consumers to subsidize the unprofitable nuclear plants.

"We believe that this will cost ratepayers somewhere between $3 billion and $4.5 billion between 2017 and 2030," says Azulay.

According to Azulay, there are safer and more economical ways to meet the goals of the Clean Energy Standard.

"A combination of energy efficiency and renewable energy would be cheaper for consumers than propping up these very dangerous and expensive nuclear reactors," she says.

Public hearings on the proposed Clean Energy Standard are being held Tuesday in Albany and in Riverhead on Long Island, and in several other cities around the state through the end of the month.


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