I love this:

"Chancellor Angela Merkel, on course for re-election on Sept. 24, said she was 'no friend of bans.'"

She's pretty friendly to the ban on nuclear power, which is Germany's only hope for clean affordable electricity and by extension Germany's only hope for clean electric heat and clean electric transportation.

Thanks to her strong friendship for THAT ban, German electric power generators dump more than 300 million tons of carbon pollution per year into our air.