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",sans-serif;color:#505050'>May 1, 2015<br><br><a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=d52645322e&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:teal'>Ontario's Coal Phase out: Lessons from a massive climate achievement</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:teal'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'> This report looks back at how this remarkable success was achieved by a small organization and the lessons learned from one of the biggest environmental success stories in recent times.<br><br></span><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'>The World</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif;color:firebrick'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=ded2b2379d&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>Nuclear Power: Totally Unqualified to Combat Climate Change</span></a> An Open Letter from the World Business Academy to leading climatologist Dr. James Hansen regarding his advocacy of nuclear power as a solution to global warming.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif;color:firebrick'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=179e3f95b9&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>Canada-India uranium deal will spur proliferation</span></a> Arms control experts say Canada's uranium will end up fuelling the Indo-Pakistani arms race, directly or indirectly. CBC's The Current also profiled this issue in this 25 min. <a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=c79a869fad&e=45743fde61" target="_blank"><span style='color:firebrick'>interview</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'>.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif;color:firebrick'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=7d7d4e455d&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>Renewables and nuclear power: Report from the World Uranium Symposium</span></a> Premier Wynne is under intense pressure to rebuild the old reactors at Darlington and Bruce. Doing so would make absolutely no economic sense, would send customers' hydro bills through the roof, and likely bankrupt the province. Instead, she should make a deal with Quebec to buy their excess water power, and build wind projects in the north.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:brown'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'>Also from the symposium, an audio report from</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:brown'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'><a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=1fba4434f2&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>Nuclear Hotseat</span></a> containing interviews with more than 20 activists, world experts, and filmmakers. Almost as good as being there.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif;color:firebrick'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:firebrick'> <u>Chernobyl: 29 years later</u></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#505050'> April 26 marked the 29th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Fairwinds lists superb resources about <a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=44439654ce&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>Chernobyl – A human perspective</span></a>. Greenpeace released a <a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacda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