Institute for Energy and Environmental Research

On December 13, 2022, Secretary of Energy, Jennifer Granholm, announced a historic scientific achievement; President Biden would call it a “BFD” she said. Eight days before, the National Igni...

https://ieer.org/news/reflections-on-the-thermonuclear-ignition-at-lawrence-livermore-laboratory/

Millions of low-income families already face crushingly high burdens of energy costs. High energy costs burdens as a percentage of income are a principal cause of financial distress, creating con...

https://ieer.org/news/will-clean-energy-impoverish-the-poor-or-help-create-a-path-to-energy-justice-part-i/

Three major electricity grid disasters in just over a year are exemplary of the havoc that climate extremes are causing and what needs to be done about it: (i) the howling winds of the 2020 derec...

https://ieer.org/news/the-electric-grid-in-a-time-of-climate-disasters-communities-show-the-way/

For decades, there has been an argument in the United States every August 6 and 9, the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One side says the Japanese militarists were ...

https://ieer.org/news/from-pearl-harbor-to-hiroshima-2/

There is not much argument now about whether the United States can get to a 100% carbon-free electricity sector in the next 15 years or so. But many still believe that nuclear energy will be need...

https://ieer.org/news/getting-to-a-100-renewable-electricity-sector/

Today, January 22, 2021, is a historic day. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons enters into force, three months after the 50th country, Honduras, ratified it. Nuclear weapons are now...

https://ieer.org/news/nuclear-weapons-ban-treaty-is-now-international-law/

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2017, about 50 million U.S. households were under such economic stress that they could not cover an unexpected $400 expense, like the breakdown of a car or a...

https://ieer.org/news/public-transit-an-element-of-economic-and-environmental-justice/

In 2017, the United Nations General Assembly convened a conference to consider a treaty on a complete ban on nuclear weapons — including their manufacture, possession, use, transfer, and testin...

https://ieer.org/news/the-nuclear-weapons-ban-treaty-gets-set-to-enter-into-force/

Nagasaki was destroyed by a plutonium atomic bomb seventy five years ago, on August 9, 1945. Called “Fat Man,” it was the same design that had been tested in the New Mexico desert less than a...

https://ieer.org/news/the-nagaski-atomic-bombing-why-the-rush/

When was the decision made to use atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Was it one decision — or several that made their use inexorable and inevitable? What were the forums in which those decis...

https://ieer.org/news/when-was-the-decision-to-use-the-atom-bomb-made/