PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2023

The building housing the departments of Environmental Protection and Conservation and Natural Resources in Harrisburg is named in her honor. In 1962's "Silent Spring," Carson helped readers understand that spraying pesticides like DDT, testing nuclear bombs and pouring chemicals into streams posed a cumulative threat.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Here are 64 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. Thank you for your leadership! -- Post-Gazette - Salena Zito: Do You Believe In St.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

The attacks on me appear designed to distract attention from the concerns I am raising with renewables and nuclear energy. As for nuclear energy, both Republicans and Democrats have for 60 years recognized it to be the world’s most important dual-use technology. And yet the U.S. In their attacks on me, Rep. Huffman and Rep.

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Environmental Progress

JUNE 29, 2020

In reality, the above facts come from the best-available scientific studies, including those conducted by or accepted by the IPCC, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and other leading scientific bodies. Climate change is happening.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 26, 2022

In France, nuclear power plants have been throttled back because rivers are too warm to cool the equipment. In the same area, the Central Iron County Water Conservancy District is advocating for the $260 million Pine Valley Water Supply project, currently under review for a right-of-way permit by the Bureau of Land Management.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

In June, HarperCollins published my new book, Apocalypse Never, which reviews the science of climate change and other environmental problems, and which has been widely praised by leading climate and conservation scientists and scholars. Shellenberger, Founder and President, Environmental Progress. But all else isn’t equal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision the US Supreme Court handed down in June curtailed strategies EPA can use to slow climate change, but its problematic implications stretch far beyond greenhouse gas reduction. The doctrine is named after the case in which it was first articulated.)

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2023

Spoiler - Yes] -- Brodhead Watershed Assn.: 31 -- DEP Notice Of July 6 Meeting Of PA Energy Development Authority. -- EPA Announces New Framework To Prevent Unsafe New PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ From Entering The Market -- DEP Announces Award Of $16.3

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 8, 2020

Snopes has published an article that claims that Apocalypse Never is being “challenged by scientists he cites.” The author, Alex Kasprak, claims scientists “say their work either refutes or is irrelevant to the broader points Shellenberger makes in his book.” Readers can see for themselves that I quoted Nepstad accurately.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2023

Steel Clairton Coke (Coal) Works] -- Post-Gazette: FirstEnergy Seeking Ratepayer Surcharge To Keep Two Coal-Fired Power Plants Open In West Virginia -- PennLive - Letter: We’re At An Energy Crossroads - By Karen Feridun, Better Path Coalition -- PennLive Guest Essay: How Nuclear Power Saved Christmas And The PJM Electric Grid - By Rep.

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Physics World

MAY 11, 2022

Despite its relative obscurity today, Liverpool’s synchrocyclotron played a major part in the rapidly evolving fields of particle and nuclear physics. Chadwick and the synchrocyclotron. In short, it made it possible to develop much larger cyclotrons that could accelerate particles to near the speed of light.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

The High Cost of Renewables House Democrats propose spending hundreds of billions of public and ratepayer money on renewable energy, new transmission lines, energy efficiency, mass transit, electric vehicles, carbon capture and storage, and advanced nuclear energy. I am honored to address the Committee.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 6, 2021

Billion Meant For Conservation -- DEP: Issues Air Quality Action Day Warning For Friday, Aug. ArtsQuest Center At Steel Stacks, 101 Founders Way, Bethlehem. 19 - Biodiversity Jam [PaEN] -- Governor’s Office: Publishes Latest Catalog Of Nonregulatory Documents [PaEN] -- PA Bulletin: Dept.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2023

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- -- Gov.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

During the four days of emergency operations during the cold snap, from early February 15th to midnight February 18th, output levels of nuclear, natural gas, coal, and wind to the grid were 79.3 Click to download testimony. I am grateful to the Committee for inviting my testimony. Weather dependency matters. percent, 47.4 percent, 51.5

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Uma Ramakrishnan is a scientist and academic at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, India, who specialises in molecular ecology and population genetics. I am a scientist and professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR , in India and I’ve been working here for the last fifteen years or so. “I

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 17, 2022

million tons of uranium waste left over from milling ore to supply power plants and nuclear bombs. Interviews with dozens of residents, along with radon testing and thousands of pages of company and government records, reveal a community sacrificed to build the nation’s nuclear arsenal and atomic energy industry.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Renewables are continuing to increase their share of the power sector, rising to almost 23 percent of the nation’s electricity supply last year, which was higher than the generation from both coal-fired and nuclear plants. This is made possible in large part by the steep cost declines of wind and solar.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Don Ritter -- Post-Gazette: Canadian Nuclear Fuel Firm Buying Into Westinghouse Electric Co. Nuclear Power] -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Mawson Infrastructure Group To Sell Georgia Bitcoin Mining Facility And Focus On Beaver County Bitcoin Facility -- Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Allowance Auction On Dec.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 9, 2020

And in what I'll underscore is one thing, every single scientific claim I made for this book I made before publishing the book, as it relates to climate change, and the scientists reviewed it. This is a near-verbatim transcript. No substantive changes were made. All editor’s notes are [in brackets] and offered only for clarity. Michael: Okay.

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ESA

MAY 23, 2022

The committee, composed of biological and ecological scientists from across the research enterprise, typically meets twice a year. In this issue: NSF Biological Sciences Advisory Committee Meets. Recordings of the meeting and key takeaways are now available. . Apply for a Badge to Attend COP27 as an Observer via ESA.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 6, 2020

Conservation biologists Robert H. Kolbert says the model’s failure “should be chastening to science writers perhaps even more than to scientists.” The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) says 6 percent of species are critically endangered, 9 percent are endangered, and 12 percent are vulnerable to becoming endangered.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 13, 2023

PaEN] -- Citizens Voice: Susquehanna Nuclear Power Plant To Test Emergency Sirens Thursday, Aug. Hosts 3 Public Meetings To Gather Input On Youghiogheny River Conservation Plan Part I - Dunbar Creek To Headwaters Aug. 8 Webinar On Pollution And Children’s Health - Norfolk Southern Train Derailment And Beyond 9:00 a.m.

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Physics World

APRIL 28, 2021

But unlike stars, they do not have enough mass for nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium to occur. As they age, brown dwarfs cool and contract, and their spin rates increase in order to conserve angular momentum. These substellar objects are more massive than planets but not quite as massive as stars. Bright spots.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2022

Million [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette: Below The Surface, Pittsburgh’s Water System Getting A Massive Makeover -- EPA Announces Brownfields Cleanup, Assessment Funding; 8 Grants In PA Totalling $7.3

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2023

25 [PaEN] -- TribLive: North Huntingdon Twp. Gives Preliminary OK For Lithium-Ion Battery Farm -- TribLive Guest Essay: Solar Energy A Budget Solution For PA Schools - By Micki Dutrow, Retired Superintendent Of West Branch Area School District, Clearfield County -- House/Senate Vote To Extend I-95 State Disaster Proclamation Until Nov.

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Physics World

APRIL 20, 2022

Another famous example can be found in Meditations on First Philosophy , a book by the 17th-century French scientist and philosopher René Descartes. Another famous example can be found in Meditations on First Philosophy , a book by the 17th-century French scientist and philosopher René Descartes.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

13, 14, 15 [No More In 2021] -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events TODAY: DCNR Webinar - Community Conservation Partnership Grant Workshop - Eastern Counties. -- DEP To Recommend Environmental Quality Board Accept Petitions For Study To Increase Oil & Gas Well Bonding Nov. Senate returns to session Nov. 8, 9, 10, Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2022

Key provisions include-- -- Clean Energy Investments: $30 billion for solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, geothermal plants and advanced nuclear reactors, including tax credits over 10 years. Republicans voted against the bill. The bill now moves to the U.S. House where a vote is expected by the end of the week. billion for EQIP, $6.75

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ESA

JULY 18, 2022

The bill includes provisions creating a Defense Advanced Research Project Agency fellowship program for early career scientists and protecting public lands in Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. Top House and Senate appropriators are still in negotiations about overall topline spending for defense and non-defense spending.

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Acoel

APRIL 8, 2022

Scientists warn of a brief and closing window for action to prevent deadly heat and damage. The bipartisan infrastructure law funds clean energy demonstration projects to improve energy storage, advanced nuclear technology, carbon capture from fuel burning as well as direct carbon capture from the atmosphere. And time is running out.

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ESA

OCTOBER 8, 2021

European countries agree to protects parts of the North Atlantic to conserve seabird species. Executive Branch. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology meets for the first time in the Biden administration. California Governor vetoes tropical deforestation bill. International. Scientific Community.

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Physics World

JUNE 1, 2022

Despite the shift to a digital world and the growing fascination with virtual reality, materials remain the building blocks of our society and culture,” argued glass scientists David Morse and Jeffrey Evenson in that issue. Her love for glass is equalled by her passion for connecting people and promoting gender equality in science.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2022

Note: Manganese Standard] TODAY 10:00: House Democratic Policy Committee hearing on Powering PA - Nuclear Fusion. Environmental Quality Board meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. Read more here about the agenda. K&L Gates Center, 210 6th Ave., Pittsburgh. Click Here to watch online. 22-25 [PaEN] -- Dept.

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

The last couple of months have seemed especially apocalyptic, with Nazis marching in the streets and nuclear war suddenly not so distant a possibility. Actual Scientists Say Sea-Level Rise Is A Threat To Tangier Island, Virginia. EPA not renewing advisory roles for dozens of scientists: report. . And now the full list: .

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

What is Conservation? We define conservation as a broad approach to preserving what is already there and the due care and attention to protecting it for the future (1). Resource conservation is the active ways in which we seek to limit the use of resources to reduce the strain put on supply. Conservation, Ethics, Philosophy.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Thank you one and all for your conservation leadership! This kind of leadership deserves our respect and the support by state lawmakers. Thank you to local news media for publishing these stories! Support Local Journalism! Casey On Leadership: Our Problems Have Taught Us That We Cannot Continue The Mindless Practices Of The Past -- Gov.

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