Fukushima’s Spent Fuel Rods Pose Grave Danger Fukushima’s Spent Fuel Rods Pose Grave Danger
Even if reactor containment vessels hold, pools of spent fuel rods could combust and release clouds of radioactive cesium into the air—a calamity that could happen at US nucl...
Mar 15, 2011 / Christian Parenti
Nuclear Hubris: Could Japan’s Disaster Happen Here? Nuclear Hubris: Could Japan’s Disaster Happen Here?
The US has twenty-three reactors of the same design as the Fukushima No. 1 reactor that is now in partial meltdown, and our federal regulators are captives of the nuclear industry.
Mar 14, 2011 / Christian Parenti
Green Strategy Now Green Strategy Now
After the demise of climate legislation, environment groups are going local—and confrontational.
Dec 2, 2010 / Feature / Christian Parenti
The Big Green Buy The Big Green Buy
How Obama can use the government's purchasing power to spark the clean-energy revolution.
Jul 15, 2010 / Feature / Christian Parenti
Retaking Rio Retaking Rio
With the Olympics coming to town, the state seeks to reclaim the favelas.
May 12, 2010 / Feature / Christian Parenti
The Case for EPA Action The Case for EPA Action
The agency has the tools to regulate greenhouse gases—if Congress doesn't take them away.
Apr 15, 2010 / Feature / Christian Parenti
The Road to Re-Election Runs Through Kabul? The Road to Re-Election Runs Through Kabul?
The real purpose of sending 30,000 soldiers to Afghanistan is to make Obama look tough as he heads toward the next US presidential election.
Dec 7, 2009 / Editorial / Christian Parenti
Zombie Nuke Plants Zombie Nuke Plants
Our crumbling atomic power stations and the government agency that loves them.
Nov 19, 2009 / Feature / Christian Parenti
Can China Catch a Cool Breeze? Can China Catch a Cool Breeze?
The planet's future depends largely on the fate of China's nascent wind sector.
Apr 15, 2009 / Feature / Christian Parenti
Three Mile Island, the NRC and Obama Three Mile Island, the NRC and Obama
Thirty years after the Three Mile Island partial meltdown, the real nuclear power threat is the relicensing of old plants.
Mar 27, 2009 / Editorial / Christian Parenti