Healey’s shift toward nuclear energy raises affordability, feasibility questions

A push from Gov. Maura Healey to expand nuclear power in the state is taking nascent steps forward and stirring debate around how Massachusetts should contend with the Trump administration’s opposition to wind power, which not long ago was the pillar of the state’s clean energy transition.

Mass Power Forward, a large coalition of environmental groups including Acadia Center, Conservation Law Foundation, and Sierra Club Massachusetts, argues in its platform that the state needs to reduce “our dependence on polluting energy sources such as coal, oil, gas, large hydroelectric generation, and nuclear power.”

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