Energy companies and trade associations have filed a lawsuit in federal court, while Public Citizen has filed an intervention at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, in opposition to a nearly $8 billion ratepayer-funded bailout of several failing atomic reactors in upstate New York. At the same time, a grassroots campaign called Stop the Cuomo Tax -- No Nuclear Bailout (which has generated a lot of media already!) has issued action alerts, from signing onto a petition, to handing out leaflets at public transit stations, which Beyond Nuclear has forwarded to its NY supporters. NYPIRG has just called for New Yorkers to phone Gov. Cuomo's office, to urge him to change his mind on propping up the dangerously age-degraded reactors, and instead invest in renewables. (Please forward the alert to everyone you know in NY!) Investigative journalist Karl Grossman, a Beyond Nuclear board member, presented at a business association on how Cuomo's nuclear bailout would undermine wind and solar power. Such efforts in NY help build momentum against nuclear power industry money grabs in other states, such as Illinois. More