Michigan is now the 20th state to pass laws that battle climate change. Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed those bills last month in an attempt to get the state into carbon neutrality by 2050.
Founder of the Clean Energy Center at Oakland University, Dr. Chris Kobus, is skeptical. He says the U.S. is starting to mirror what’s happening overseas.
“Last year the European Union for the first time declared nuclear and natural gas to be clean energy,” Kobus said. “Why did they do that? Because they can’t make everything else work with it. Simple as that. And we’re going to see the same thing going downstream. I wouldn’t be surprised if years down the road [they say], ‘You know what? We’re going clean, but we’re going to consider nuclear clean and we’re going to consider natural gas clean.'”
Among other things, the new law requires Michigan to get all of its electricity by renewable sources by 2040. Included on the list of what’s considered renewable is nuclear power.
