Global
Governor [Kathy] Hochul is making a major push to not only build new nuclear plants in New York State but to make N.Y. the center of a nuclear revival in the U.S.,” declared Mark Dunlea, chair of the Green Education and Legal Fund, and long a leader on environmental issues in the state and nationally, in a recent email calling on support to “stop Hochul’s nuclear push.”
Dunlea is author of the book “Putting Out the Planetary Fire: An Introduction to Climate Change and Advocacy.” An Albany Law School graduate, he co-founded both the New York Public Interest Research Group and national PIRG. In an interview last week from his home in Poestenkill in upstate New York, Dunlea charged that Governor Hochul has “bought into nuclear power.”
He said, “She buys the argument that nuclear is carbon-free, avoiding looking at the life cycle of nuclear and its carbon footprint,” which includes, he noted, significant emissions of carbon in uranium mining, milling, enrichment, fuel fabrication and at other points. “The nuclear industry has been lobbying her to go along with it, and she has,” he said.
Chicago
Anyone who listens to WBBM or WLS radio stations in Chicago or baseball games of the Chicago Cubs has heard them: seemingly incessant jingles selling a drug for an eye condition most have never heard of.
“Slow it down,” tease the ads with a musical lick culled from the 1975 R & B hit by the music group War, Low Rider. "I-Zer-Vay gets GA going slower,” chant the ads, trying to sell the drug IIzervay, which costs $2,220 per treatment without insurance, for the not well known disease of “GA.” (Moreover, the ads target the shrinking demographic of those who remember 50-year-old music hits.)
WHAT IS “GA”?
Geographic atrophy is a condition which can result from dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD)–another eye condition many have not heard of. It has been aggressively publicized by the former Happy Days star Henry Winkler (nee the Fonz) who says he “partnered” with IIzervay manufacturer Astellas Pharma after his father-in-law got the condition.
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