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Leigh Phillips

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Journalist & science writer (Nature, Sci Am, New Scientist, Guardian, Telegraph). Co-author of People’s Republic of Walmart. Author of Austerity Ecology.

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Leigh Phillips @Leigh_Phillips · Feb 16, 2023
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Essential piece of labor and climate reporting from @leee_harris here on divisions between industrial labor and climate activists/NGOs.

Article Feb 16, 2023
Hochul and Senate Clash on Public Power, With Utility Workers on the Sidelines
by Lee Harris
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Leigh Phillips @Leigh_Phillips · Feb 16, 2023
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Great piece from @drmitchpdx on the holism of “grid thought” (and the national planning required) for the clean transition.

Article Feb 15, 2023
The Case for Grid Thought — Center for Public Enterprise
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Leigh Phillips @Leigh_Phillips · Jan 15, 2023
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Incredible story of a fully completed nuclear plant that has never been turned on.

Tweet Jan 15, 2023
In 1985, the world's leading nuclear energy company, Westinghouse, completed a nuclear plant for a growing country that desperately needed the electricity. The plant has yet to be run. Welcome to the maddening, but hopeful, story of the Philippines
by Mark Nelson
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Leigh Phillips @Leigh_Phillips · Oct 14, 2022
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In any case, even if a missile targetted a nuclear plant, as nuclear writer Jeremy Gordon describes in more detail in his own thread, used fuel is not dayglo green goop like in The Simpsons, but solid metal.

Tweet Mar 4, 2022
I have woken up to reports of fighting at the #Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. In this thread I will summarise what I understand about the situation.
by Jeremy Gordon
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