PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2023

And now, I participated in a seminar that PJM was part of in New York City, and one of the comments made is the political policies that we as legislators in the various states associated with PJM probably give to PJM. "In Obviously, that doesn't add up quite, but there's a little bit of renewables included in that. “We

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

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. A very polite man whose name I never did knew -- explained that he needed to inform us that there was an incident at the plant at about 4:00 a.m,

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Physics World

OCTOBER 19, 2021

From physics to politics William D Magwood IV, director-general of the Nuclear Energy Agency, thinks nuclear power can help us meet net-zero targets. I fight,” answered Magwood, who at the time directed the Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology at the US Department of Energy (DOE). Courtesy: NEA).

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Inside Climate News

APRIL 4, 2024

A nuclear power plant hasn’t been built in Texas in decades because of cost and public fears of a major accident. Now the governor wants to find out if smaller reactors could meet the state’s growing need for on-demand power.

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

Germany has recently experienced fatal and apocalyptic climate- fuelled floods , after which the country’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, promised the government would do more to tackle climate change. Ironically, the country already gets a lot of its electricity supply via interconnectors from France – produced through nuclear energy.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2025

Davis, DEP, Community Celebrate The Opening Of Federal/State Funded Blacklick Creek Mine Drainage Treatment Plant To Clean Up 25 Miles Of Waterways In Cambria, Indiana Counties [PaEN] -- Indiana Gazette: Blacklick Abandoned Mine Drainage Treatment Facility Celebrated Near Vintondale -- DEP Now Accepting Applications For First Round Of Federally-Funded (..)

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2021

C temperature target, and one that more than 130 countries have adopted, albeit mostly as squishy political declarations, not yet legally binding or implemented. Fossil enterprises and political leaders in major fossil producers ranged from politely dismissive to openly contemptuous. To paraphrase St.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 7, 2022

Now in place for three months, the new coalition has overhauled a decades-long political stance toward Russia which was centred on Wandel durch Handel (change through trade). Over the past few weeks, Germany’s political elite has finally realised that gas is Putin’s leverage over Europe and Germany. How has Germany reacted?

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Million In Federal American Rescue Plan Funds Going To Lycoming County Water, Sewer Projects -- $11 Billion In Federal American Rescue Plan Funding To PA State Government, Local Governments Has Yet To Be Invested. Senate returns to voting session Feb. What’s Your Community Doing? 21 -- PennLive - Jan Murphy: Republicans Take Away Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2023

Room 8E-A East Wing Capitol Building. . -- March 6 PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN] -- Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 8, 2024

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. A very polite man – whose name I never did knew -- explained that he needed to inform us that there was an incident at the plant at about 4:00 a.m,

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

OSM Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative Releases Spring Tree Planting Schedule [PaEN] -- MCall: Bethlehem Will Spend Millions To Improve, Expand Its Parks Over Next Decade -- Discover Northeast PA: Exploring Spine Trails With PA Environmental Council -- WHYY: Spring Garden Bicycle Lanes Still On Track To Connect Delaware To Schuylkill River (..)

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

27 Webinar: General Update Of Large-Scale Solar In Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- PUC Publishes Final Policy Statement On Electric Utility Rate Design For Electric Vehicle Charging -- The Center Square: A Closer Look At Shapiros Carbon Tax Plan -- WESA: Truck Overturns Spilling 2,000 Gallons Of Diesel Fuel Into Allegheny River In Pittsburgh -- PA Assn.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

18 -- Help Wanted: Manada Conservancy Land Protection Director [PaEN] American Rescue Plan Funding -- $11 Billion In Federal American Rescue Plan Funding To PA State Government, Local Governments Has Yet To Be Invested. 18-21 -- CitizensV: Great Backyard Bird Count Begins Feb. What’s Your Community Doing?

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2024

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 3, 2024

. -- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: Agriculture To Get Greater Voice In Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Effort -- WITF StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: $40 Million+ Heading To PA Farms To Increase Climate Resilience -- Lower Susquehanna Source Water Protection Partnership Holds Virtual Meeting Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2025

House Local Government Committee meets to consider House Bill 388 (Cerrato-D-Montgomery) authorizing municipalities to replace water and sewer laterals serving residences. Room B31 Main Capitol. Click Here to watch online. February 5-- NEW. Room 205 Ryan Building.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

With the savings, local governments can reduce taxes and schools can invest in more teachers. IBEW 98 Political Director T.J. The grant program, “Solar for Schools,” would issue grants to schools for solar energy projects, including costs related to equipment, installation and maintenance of solar energy systems. Fiedler said.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The results also revealed strong support among voters for America-first clean energy policies-- 84 percent support the government taking action to accelerate clean energy in the U.S.-- The poll found an almost even divide on nuclear power-- 37 percent more emphasis and 34 percent less. Click Here for the full results.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

What’s Your Community Doing? Other States/National/International -- AP: Hurricane Fiona Nears Dominican Republic After Pounding Puerto Rico -- AP: Flood Waters Receding After Storm Batters Western Alaska -- AP: First Public Global Database Of Fossil Fuels Launches -- The Guardian: Burning World’s Fossil Fuel Reserves Could Emit 3.5

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 5, 2022

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- MCall - Paul Muschick: Spreading Hate: White Supremacist Groups Send Propaganda Throughout Lehigh Valley -- LancasterOnline: Lancaster County Man Accused Of Planning To Kill Democratic U.S. What’s Your Community Doing? Senators To Plead Guilty -- PA Cap-Star: A Year After Assault On U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Fitzpatrick Hails Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill As A Win For PA -- Inquirer: The Infrastructure Bill Is Big, But It Won’t Transform America’s Focus On Cars National/International -- The Guardian: Military Deployed As Canadian Pacific North-West Grapples With Devastating Floods [Is PA Ready?] -- The Guardian: U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2022

What’s Your Community Doing? Other States/National/International -- Post-Gazette: More Research Links Air Pollution Exposure And COVID Risk -- The Guardian: ‘Everything Was Orange,’ U.S. Other States/National/International -- Post-Gazette: More Research Links Air Pollution Exposure And COVID Risk -- The Guardian: ‘Everything Was Orange,’ U.S.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 29, 2015

However, what is often overlooked is the impact of nuclear power on our water systems, especially in drought prone areas. Many leading energy experts often deem nuclear an acceptable form of sustainable energy. Questions that often arise are: Is it safe? Is it sustainable? By Allen Smith.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 7, 2022

Updated] -- Bloomberg: EU Countries Call For 1,000 GW Of Solar Energy By 2030 American Rescue Plan Funding -- $11 Billion In Federal American Rescue Plan Funding To PA State Government, Local Governments Has Yet To Be Invested. Casey, USDA Promise $22.5 What’s Your Community Doing? Other States/National/International -- Bloomberg: U.S.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Investors and governments will be expected to refer to the Taxonomy in order to determine whether an activity they want to pursue can be considered sustainable, and under what conditions (screening criteria). Having an expiration date creates political investment uncertainty and risk, which is precisely what the Taxonomy intended to remove.

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A Greener Life

JULY 11, 2024

With the results in and the new government at work already , it’s worth asking now what we’ve actually won. That will include nuclear power and the Small Modular Reactors so beloved of politicians. This is a shame, because after COVID-19 Boris Johnson’s government made some promising noises on active transport after COVID-19.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

This fundamental reality has been obscured by the high complexity of wholesale electricity “markets,” which were created by government policies and regulations and mask the high cost of integrating variable renewable energy sources — until, that is, disaster strikes. is 32 years, as of January 2021. [14] I believe the U.S. But if the U.S.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 16, 2018

Many civil disobedience activists in the 1960s and 70s attempted to use it to justify their illegal actions in protests over foreign wars or nuclear power, for example, but achieved little to no success. Often raised in emergency situations where illegal actions might save life or limb, the defense can also be controversial.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

The United States government has questions about China’s goals and intentions, and about how to respond at a time when US-China relations are deteriorating. It’s discussing a cessation of hostilities, negotiations, and a reduction of nuclear risks. China is becoming an active international conflict mediator. How should the US respond?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2023

Getting there requires an all-of-society approach; getting there requires leadership at all levels of government. We have made a start by expanding our wind power, extending our nuclear power, pushing hard to get access to Canadian hydro power, and making our homes more energy efficient—that’s less costs and carbon free.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In a separate but similar Ninth Circuit appeal, the federal government filed a brief on October 18 urging the court to overturn a district court decision vacating the listing of a ringed seal subspecies as threatened based on climate change threats through the end of the century.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Doing research on environmental issues or responses is usually an easy call for policy-makers and gets wide political support, even if there’s disagreement what to do about the issue. All research is governed, mostly through normal processes of peer review, research-program management, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Heres What We Know -- Reading Eagle: Chaos In Federal Government Threatening Programs That Help The Homeless In Berks -- TribLive: University Of Pittsburgh Freezes All Hiring Amid Federal Funding Cutbacks -- MCall: At Weekly Protest Outside Republican Cong.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 27, 2024

[PaEN] -- Master Watershed Stewards Host July 15 Annual Q/A Webinar On Fall Native Tree And Shrub Sale Species [PaEN] -- Bill Requiring PennDOT To Plant Native Plants Along State Highways Goes To Governor [PaEN] -- LancasterOnline: PA Lawmakers Want To Ban Invasive Plant Species From State Highways -- Sen.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

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. 25] And that amount does not include the costs associated with local and state political opposition.

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Environmental Europe

JANUARY 26, 2017

As one previous post on this blog detailed, the current political turmoil in Northern Ireland was sparked by a subsidy for renewable energy production. Though it is tempting to blame political carelessness, the ongoing RHI scandal prompts a broader reflection about renewable energy policy instruments. data: SOeS ). speculative ones.

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