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

Environmental Progress

2] Over the last 25 years, increasingly decentralized electricity generation in restructured electricity markets, along with growth in the number of regulatory institutions, has resulted in “divergent interests of federal, state, regional and local authorities,” wrote the Academies in the 2021 report. as a whole. [52] 5] Ran Fu et al., “US

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Environmental Health Project: PA’s Natural Gas Boom - What Went Wrong? Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?

PA Environment Daily

Interestingly, even with this skewed membership on the commission, it did formulate a category of recommendations that would have provided public oversight of the industry, and would have empowered the DOH to play an important role in the shale gas arena, but nothing came of it. We founded the Environmental Health Institute in 2007.