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German Atomic Energy Act Amendment Illegal - Case Comment BVerfG 1 BvR 1550/19

Energy and Climate Law

By that time the nuclear power plant in Krümmel had several safety issues and small-impact incidents were discovered. Having the developments in Fukushima fresh in mind the German legislator decided that Vattenfall, the owner of the Krümmel nuclear plant, had to close it immediately.

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Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 11.28.24

PA Environment Daily

1 -- The Allegheny Front: Slag Heap Goes Solar: New 15-Acre Solar Energy Facility To Break Ground In Pittsburgh -- LancasterOnline: Peach Bottom Nuclear Power Plant To Test Sirens Dec. 1 -- WVIA: Heating Bills To Rise 8.7% For UGI Gas Customers Starting Dec. 1 -- WVIA: Heating Bills To Rise 8.7% For UGI Gas Customers Starting Dec.

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Guest Essay: March 28, 1979 -- Three Mile Island

PA Environment Daily

commercial nuclear power industry. The accident occurred at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant Unit 2 near Middletown, a few miles downstream from Harrisburg. We had a pleasant and very substantive call, about the press treatment of the incident, the NRC's role, the implications for nuclear power, and so on.

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

14 Hearing [If Requested] On Title V Air Quality Permit For Gas-fired Hummel Station Power Plant In Snyder County [PaEN] -- DEP To Hold Aug. Seif, Former Administrative Assistant to Gov. Dick Thornburgh [PaEN] -- Breathe Project : PA Cong.

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Wednesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 8.16.23

PA Environment Daily

Of Health Distributes Free Potassium Iodide Tablets Around State’s 4 Active Nuclear Power Plants On Aug. Of Health Distributes Free Potassium Iodide Tablets Around State’s 4 Active Nuclear Power Plants On Aug. 17 -- Penn State Extension: Solar Law Symposium Aug. 17 -- Penn State Extension: Solar Law Symposium Aug.

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152 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

Seif, Former Administrative Assistant to Gov.

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House Hearing Today: Let’s Work Together To Make Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Practices Cleaner, Respect Property Rights, Protect Taxpayers And Prevent New Abandoned Wells

PA Environment Daily

As a result, I was involved with the passage of every major piece of environmental legislation in Pennsylvania for 19 years (1983 through 2002). I helped respond to the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant accident, to severe floods, the worst tornadoes Pennsylvania ever experienced and the million gallon Ashland Oil spill.