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Conservative Party received 40 percent of its donations from fossil fuel interests in the first week of the campaign

A Greener Life

Lord Fink, a hedge fund manager and former Tory treasurer, is also a prolific Conservative donor, having given £4 million to the party since 2003, and £322,000 since December 2019. At the time of the Truss donation, Hay said : “I want to see us use more of our energy supply, including more oil and gas from the North Sea and nuclear power.”

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DEP Outlines 2022 Priorities: Make Up Deficit In Oil & Gas Funding; Get Resources Needed To Invest New Federal Mine Reclamation, Oil & Gas Well Plugging Funds

PA Environment Daily

Since 2003, General Fund support for environmental programs in DEP have been cut about 40 percent and as a result staffing was reduced by nearly 30 percent, especially in water quality protection programs. In 2010, Gov. Rendell actually bragged about the fact General Fund monies for DEP were below 1994-95 appropriations. Read more here.]

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How the Daya Bay experiment helped China build a neutrino legacy

Physics World

Some scientists proposed using nuclear reactors to study this neutrino oscillation, since reactors are well-understood neutrino sources, and Luk realized it could be the best way to solve the theta-13 problem. Originally from Hong Kong, Luk also knew about the Daya Bay nuclear power plant and added it to his list.

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Nuclear Plant Closures And Renewables Increase Electricity Prices & Unreliability, Testifies Michael Shellenberger to U.S. Senate

Environmental Progress

4] Meanwhile, many experts see in recent trends an inevitable transition away from coal and nuclear power plants, designed to function as baseload capacity, toward variable renewable energy sources with just-in-time natural gas back-up. gigawatts of highly-reliable, low-cost, and low-carbon power. [49] 5] The U.S.

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

Gleick claims they did not claim fossil fuels were scarce in the 1970s, and points to a book published in 2003 where Holdren said, “What environmentalists mainly say on this topic is not that we are running out of energy, but that we are running out of environment…” But I make this exact point in Apocalypse Never. Why else use it?

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Raytheon Makes Nuclear War More Likely

Corp Watch

And in 2003 Raytheon agreed to pay $3.9 In 1993, Raytheon paid out $3.7 million to settle U.S. government charges that it had inflated the cost of Patriot missiles. In 1994, Raytheon paid $4 million over allegations that the company inflated the cost of a $71.5 million radar contract.

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The "Patriots" at Raytheon

Corp Watch

And in 2003 Raytheon agreed to pay $3.9 In 1993, Raytheon paid out $3.7 million to settle U.S. government charges that it had inflated the cost of Patriot missiles. In 1994, Raytheon paid $4 million over allegations that the company inflated the cost of a $71.5 million radar contract.