New Scientist

APRIL 22, 2022

Researchers hoping to identify bacteria capable of consuming radioactive waste at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant fear their work has been destroyed by Russian troops

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Senate Environmental Resources & Energy Committee holds a hearing on waste to fuels. House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee meets to consider House Resolution 565 (Pielli-D-Chester) directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to do a study on wil native terrestrial invertebrate management ( sponsor summary ).

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 9, 2023

On September 29, DEP told the Low-Level Waste Advisory Committee shale gas operations in Pennsylvania sent 138,336 cubic feet of radioactive TENORM waste to the Waste Control Specialists low-level radioactive waste facility in Texas for disposal. Click Here for DEP table on TENORM waste. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2022

On September 30, DEP told the Low-Level Waste Advisory Committee shale gas fracking operations in Pennsylvania sent nearly 236,00 cubic feet of radioactive TENORM waste to out-of-state low-level radioactive waste facilities for disposal, more volume than all the industries combined in the four-state Appalachian Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact.

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New Scientist

MARCH 9, 2022

Vital cooling systems for controlling nuclear waste at the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant are offline, leading to concerns that radioactive waste might escape

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

At the same time, an audit of the subsidies found that purchasing energy and capacity from regional wholesale markets is cheaper than power from the OVEC plants. In addition, FirstEnergy—owner of the two uneconomic nuclear power plants H.B.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2021

DEP’s Citizens Advisory Council is scheduled to meet in-person and virtually on October 19 to hear a presentation from DEP on the decontamination and decommissioning of oil and gas wastewater treatment facilities, nuclear power plants, waste dump sites and other sites in Pennsylvania.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Remember the historical claims that nuclear power was going to be too cheap to meter? For years, the incandescent bulb was too cheap for people to care how wasteful it was. Since the invention of the light bulb, we’ve been wasting huge amounts of electricity.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

DEP Low-Level Radioactive Waste Advisory Committee meeting. formal notice ) [ Note: Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Decommissioning on the agenda.] Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. Visit the Committee webpage for options to join the meeting remotely.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2023

Today the waters cool the nearby Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Russian forces currently occupy the location, which for 70 years has provided drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people and irrigation for 200,000 hectares of sunflowers, grains, and vegetables.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

86,000 Metric Tons : Amount of used nuclear fuel from U.S. commercial power reactors. The waste is stored at 75 nuclear power sites in the country. By the Numbers.

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Law and Environment

APRIL 24, 2023

Because byproduct material generally poses lower hazards and national security risks, obtaining a byproduct material license is far easier than obtaining an approval to construct and operate a utilization facility (such as a nuclear power plant) from the NRC under Part 50.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 26, 2022

Forty-three years ago on March 28, 1979, Pennsylvanians woke up to a much different world -- the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Dauphin County. commercial nuclear power industry. Nuclear power was touted as the safest form of supplying energy. Yes, this is a nuclear power plant."

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

24-26 At Shale Insight Conference -- PA Resources Council, Partners Host 3 Electronic Waste Collection Events In Delaware, Montgomery Counties Starting Sept. Maybe [Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant Restart] Background On Issues -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Sept. 26 [PaEN] -- Still Time To Register!

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Green Bang

OCTOBER 22, 2024

We're building a new segmentation model of the different types of data centres vs the role of nuclear power in them for a report we're writing. Implementing heat-sharing schemes requires careful planning, infrastructure development, and collaboration with local communities and industries.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 6520 ) Waste Permits -- SWN Production Company, LLC - Warner Water Transfer Facility: DEP issued a determination of applicability for a WMGR123 General Waste Permit for the shale gas wastewater facility located in New Milford Twp., Centre County. ( Susquehanna County. ( Susquehanna County. ( Bradford County. (

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2024

10 Telephonic Hearing On PPL Proposal To Construct New Three Mile Island - Chanceford 500kV Transmission Line and Chanceford - Peach Bottom 500kV Transmission and Other Related Transmission Lines -- Washington Post: Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Owner Seeks $1.6

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2023

Equitrans Gas Storage Area On March 22, DEP did another inspection of access wells at the Equitrans Rager Mountain Natural Gas Storage Area and again found continuing environmental violations like failure to dispose of wastes and fluids on the site and discharging wastes into waters of the Commonwealth. 6 wells in Erie County).

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This means that not only are huge quantities of heat and gas going to waste but people are paying a lot more on heating their homes than they would have been, were they insulated to a better standard. UK’s hugely inefficient housing stock means most homes and buildings do a very poor job of conserving heat.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Muth Raises More Questions About NPDES Permit DEP Issued For Eureka Resources Drilling Wastewater Treatment Plant In Susquehanna County -- Health Department Distributing Free Potassium Iodide Tablets To Pennsylvanians Near State’s Four Active Nuclear Power Plants Sept. Why Does It Matter?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Waste Coal In July of 2021 a company by the name of Stronghold Digital Mining (Stronghold) filed an S-1 report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosing plans to purchase three waste coal fired power plants and install 57,000 Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) dedicated to mining bitcoin.

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Earth 911

JANUARY 22, 2024

Despite its other environmental impacts, including toxic waste that requires centuries or millennia of storage. The post Earth911 Podcast: Can Nano Nuclear Energy’s Microreactors Deliver Equitable Electricity? appeared first on Earth911.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

Waste Coal In July of 2021 a company by the name of Stronghold Digital Mining (Stronghold) filed an S-1 report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosing plans to purchase three waste coal fired power plants and install 57,000 Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) dedicated to mining bitcoin.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Senate Environmental Resources & Energy Committee holds a hearing on waste to fuels. October 23-- Agenda Posted. Room 8E-B East Wing Capitol Building. Million Payment For American Zinc & Chemical Site Natural Resource Damage In Washington County; Invites Comments On Settlement [PaEN] -- PennVEST Makes $216.3

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 16, 2023

18 Webinar Launching 9th Compendium Of Scientific, Medical Findings Demonstrating Risks, Harms Of Natural Gas Development, Infrastructure Sierra Club's Delaware County Team Hosts Oct. 30; Will Schedule Additional Hearings EPA Awards Penn State Hershey Medical Center $1.19

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 2, 2024

28 to Oct. 6 [PaEN] Background On Issues -- Lt.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 9, 2023

Third Annual Breeding Bird Blitz For Conservation - Donate To Your Favorite Team By June 19 [PaEN] -- DEP/EPA AirNOW Forecasts Code ORANGE Air Quality Action Day Friday, June 9 Across PA -- TribLive: Code ORANGE Air Quality Alert Issued For Region -- PA Capital-Star - John Micek: What The Wildfires Teach Us - We Might Not Survive Our Own Climate Foolishness, (..)

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2024

16 In Montrose, Susquehanna County Center For Coalfield Justice Hosts Aug. 22, 23, 24 PA Assn. Of Environmental Professionals Hosts Aug. 5 PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers Hosts Aug. 21 Online Community Engagement And Climate Resilience Planning Workshop Penn State Extension Hosts Sept. 28 To Oct. 6 DCNR To Host Aug. 28 To Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2023

The draft guidance avoids wasting billions of tax dollars on subsidies for dirty hydrogen production projects that would spike climate and health-harming pollution.” Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 1753 ) Waste Permits -- EQT CHAP LLC - Herminie North Centralized Water Facility: DEP approved General Permit WMGR123 for the facility in Sewickley Twp., Greene County. ( Greene County. ( Susquehanna County. ( Westmoreland County. ( Greene County. ( Lycoming County. ( Susquehanna County. ( Berks County. ( Beaver County. (

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2023

The operator, who accompanied DEP on the inspection, also failed to submit annual mechanical integrity and production and waste generation reports. and found they were both abandoned.

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Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

That means much less waste and a better deal for the environment. Adding in the contributions of nuclear power plants could bring the total share of US electricity generated by “zero-carbon” sources up from 40 percent, where it is today, to almost 70 percent in 2030. Gasoline engines are riddled with inefficiencies.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 15, 2023

14 Hearing On Air Quality Permit For Energy Transfer Natural Gas Liquids Marcus Hook Terminal In An EJ Area, Delaware County [PaEN] -- Better Path Coalition: Oct. 16 Webinar On Lawsuit Challenging Law Preventing DEP From Protecting Public Health, Environment From Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells [PaEN] -- House Committee Meets Oct.

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Acoel

MAY 4, 2023

Because byproduct material generally poses lower hazards and national security risks, obtaining a byproduct material license is far easier than obtaining an approval to construct and operate a utilization facility (such as a nuclear power plant) from the NRC under Part 50.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

House Committee Meets On Recycling Fee, Farm Solar The House Local Government Committee is scheduled to hold a voting meeting on House Bill 223 (Isaacson-D-Philadelphia) increasing the recycling fee on municipal waste disposed in the state to $5/ton from $2/ton ( sponsor summary ).

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 11, 2024

In Japan and Germany, coal power still accounts for 30% and 25% respectively of electricity generation. In Germany ’s case, their decision to decommission all its nuclear power plants has made the country much more reliant on coal.

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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. billion gallons per day in the US if developers continue to build new power plants with evaporative cooling, an amount.

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