Resolved: Using Nuclear and Coal Power in an Environmentally Friendly Manner Is the Path Forward in Controlling Climate Change

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THE FORUM

Resolved: Using Nuclear and Coal Power in an

Environmentally Friendly Manner Is the Path

Forward in Controlling Climate Change

An all-star lineuped debated the

future of the electric power sector

at the annual ELI–Miriam Ham-

ilton Keare Policy Forum, ad-

dressing the above question posed

by moderator Matthew Wald, the New York

Times’s energy beat reporter. He had repre-

sentatives of the coal and nuclear power in-

dustries, proponents of greater use of those

sources, face of‌f with skeptics ranging from

environmental interests to federal and state

regulatory agencies who need to meet the

demands of energy consumers in homes and

industry.

Although the panelists split on advocating

greater use of these power sources in the fu-

ture, and as to whether some development is

inevitable and desirable — as one energy form

among many that need to gain wider accep-

tance and deployment if humanity is to make

the cuts needed to stabilize the climate — they

agreed that technology will spell the dif‌ference

as to which sources come out on top.

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of the event, which was edited for space reasons.

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