nebraskansforpeace

by Dan DiLeo, Jeanne Schuler, Patrick Murray, and Perlie Whitley Published in the Omaha World Herald October 15th 2025 On Oct. 9, Attorney General Mike Hilgers sued OPPD to block the utility’s plan to transition its North Omaha Station from burning coal. The lawsuit, supported by Gov. Jim Pillen, says OPPD: 1) Should ignore social and environmental costs of energy. 2) And should ignore “environmental justice,” the idea that marginalized communities should not bear greater burdens of...

by Paul A. Olson “[W]e will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.” — Martin Luther King The Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Up to World War II: To begin with our search for peace, nineteenth century Nebraska had significant settlements of Quakers, Mennonites, and the various Brethren churches whose whole tradition was that of a culture of peace. The 1890s-1900s Populist Party, which elected a number of officials in Nebraska, had...

What's HOT in Global Warming Series by Professor Bruce E. Johansen Artificial Intelligence (A-I), through stocks such has Nvidia has become the hottest ticket to heaven, when it’s not the road to hell in the S&P 500. What other stock could lose $600 billion worth of paper value in one day, and then make it back? At a White House dinner in September, 2025, Mark Zuckerberg said that Meta would spend $600 billion on data centers and related infrastructure. Either way, at the rate that the...