The Energy 202: Rick Perry calls expanding nuclear energy "the real" Green New Deal

[DonViejo]

By Dino Grandoni
March 25 at 8:07 AM

President Trump loves to talk about coal-fired power: Whenever he travels to West Virginia or Kentucky he boasts of bringing back “beautiful clean coal.”

Trump talks far less at political rallies about his administration’s efforts to help the nation’s nuclear energy business.

Yet on Friday, the president’s top energy official just announced a major $3.7 billion boost to keep afloat the last remaining commercial nuclear reactors under construction in the United States.

At a speech to nuclear power plant employees in Georgia, where the two new reactors are being built, Energy Secretary Rick Perry said the taxpayer-guaranteed financing was part of a broader “goal of making America nuclear cool again.”

“Ladies and gentlemen, look around you,” he said at the beginning of his address. “This is the real new green deal.”

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[Ilsa]

1. Send him to Japan. nt