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PJM Electric Auction Impacts: 1 In 5 PA Households Report Problems Now Paying Energy Bills; Electric Utility Shutoffs Up 38.1% So Far This Year

PA Environment Daily

Households at or below 150% of the federal poverty level had "experienced termination rates at exceptionally high levels that have been growing exponentially since 2001. “And it also doesn't cover our municipal electric utilities or other rural electric cooperatives. Obviously to use more than this.

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Continuous Bose–Einstein condensate opens the door to continuous-wave atom lasers

Physics World

BECs form when a gas of bosonic atoms is cooled to ultracold temperatures. BECs were first made in 1995 and their creators were rewarded with the 2001 Nobel Prize for Physics. Laser cooling is much faster and does not require most of the sample to be lost. Two-stage process. Great progress.

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Western PA Conservancy Watershed Conservation Program Receives U.S. Forest Service Award For Decades-Long Work To Improve Water Quality In The Allegheny National Forest

PA Environment Daily

Woody material reintroduction helps mitigate flood risk downstream, ensure cool water during summer low flows and improve connections between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Also, through large woody material restoration, the Conservancy has an integral role in improving watersheds and aquatic communities in the forest.

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Statement: Bill 23 will Unleash a Firestorm of Environmentally Destructive Rural Sprawl – It Must Be Repealed

Enviromental Defense

destroys many of the existing “green” building standards that municipalities use to make new homes that are cheaper for tenants or purchasers to heat and cool – and which are vital to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. . SCHEDULE 4: MUNICIPAL ACT, 2001. million homes would be created there, province-wide .

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DEP Blog: Abandoned Coal Mine Reforestation Initiatives Healing The Land

PA Environment Daily

If present, invasive species of plants (which are harmful to the natural ecology) and cool season grass which had been planted by mining companies and are not native to the area, are eradicated. After a site has been chosen, the goal is to try to get a blank slate on the vegetation to start over.

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WeConservePA: Neighborhood Gardens Trust Preserves Peace Garden in North Philadelphia

PA Environment Daily

The Peace Garden was created in 2001 under the auspices of New Jerusalem Now (NJN), a nonprofit focused on addiction recovery, founded by the Medical Mission Sisters. Preserving the mature trees in the Peace Garden in an area with scarce tree cover is important to maintaining the carbon-absorbing and cooling benefits of the urban tree canopy.

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Helping Washington’s Coastal Forests Prepare for the Future

Washington Nature

Ellsworth Creek Preserve: A Living Laboratory for Forest Resiliency Read a high level overview of the scientific paper featured in this story over at Cool Green Science. When The Nature Conservancy purchased the Ellsworth Creek Preserve in 2001, just a fraction of the old-growth forest remained.