Our Climate Education Fund is a leftist non profit organization that advocates for policies that will result in the elimination of greenhouse gas pollution and a transition away from a profit-based economy.12 Our Climate has opposed the use of zero carbon nuclear energy. 3
In May of 2021, Our Climate was one of 715 groups and businesses listed as a co-signer on a letter to the leadership of the U.S. House and Senate that referred to nuclear energy as a “dirty” form of energy production and a “significant” source of pollution. The letter asked federal lawmakers to reduce carbon emissions by creating a “renewable electricity standard” that promoted production of weather dependent power sources such as wind turbines and solar panels, but did not promote low carbon natural gas and zero carbon nuclear energy. 3
Nuclear power plants produce no carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gas emissions, and as of 2021 accounted for 19 percent of American electricity production—the largest source of zero carbon electricity in the United States. 4 An October 2018 proposal from The Nature Conservancy noted that zero-carbon nuclear plants produced 7.8 percent of total world energy output and recommended reducing carbon emissions by increasing nuclear capacity to 33 percent of total world energy output. 5
To hire an Oregon-based field organizer to support students at colleges and universities in engaging in and advocating for equitable science-based climate policy efforts
