The Nuclear Regulatory Commission proposes to deregulate new kinds of nuclear power plants.

They have a history of seeking to please and serve the companies that make nuclear power plants, so such a proposal makes me suspicious. We should not build new, "small" nuclear plants because that is too slow, expensive and risky to be of service in preventing global heating disaster.

To go fast, we need to use the solution that is fastest and cheapest to build: renewable power.

Sydney thugs violently arrested habitual prank protester Danny Lim and left him seriously injured.

He told them at the outset he needed an ambulance, and when a passerby offered to call one, the thugs threatened to charge him with a crime if he did so.

Thugs should face criminal charges for making threats to falsely accuse people, just as for actually doing so.

I don't quite get the jobe of his sign, nor the point of his protest -- but those details don't affect the issue here.

Iran is expanding its uranium-refining capacity. This suggests it intends to produce nuclear weapons -- though it could be a plan to generate nuclear power instead of burning so much oil.

Japan is meddling in Australian politics by trying to pressure Queensland not to increase the tax on exported coal.

That tax increase is a tiny step towards the vital goal of reducing coal consumption. It is terribly insufficient, but opposing it endangers all of us.

*The massacre at Club Q didn’t happen in a vacuum. There has been a dangerous escalation in hateful anti-LGBT rhetoric.*