A comeback for an older environmental issue.

Readers of a certain age may remember the "No Nukes" concerts of the late 1970s -- September 1979, to be precise. A diverse mix of artists --  all of whom are still recording -- held a three-day benefit at New York's Madison Square Garden to bring attention and opposition to plans to substantially increase the United States' construction of more nuclear power generating plants.

The concert and concerns over nuclear power had fresh impetus and urgency in the wake of the Three Mile Island accident six months earlier, itself an eerie case of life imitating art, since it happened two weeks after the release of the movie The China Syndrome about a catastrophic accident at a nuclear power plant.

Don't feel bad if you missed any of that or if you weren't born in 1979. With the renewed push for nuclear power as an energy source in some quarters, it'll be deja vu all over again, as Yogi Berra said, right down to the organizers and drivers. Chief among them is David Fenton, the subject of a fascinating profile that's also part history and part tutorial on how politics are changing in the Washington Post.

You'll have to register to read the piece, but that's free. Besides, it's the Washington Post, still one of the best papers on the continent, so there's no downside.