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The Drying Planet

Circle of Blue

” Jay Famiglietti, hydrologist Since 2002, the GRACE sensors have detected a rapid shift in water loss patterns around the planet. The answer: everything, and quickly. It’s like this sort of creeping disaster that has taken over the continents in ways that no one was really anticipating.”

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EPA Alumni Association: An Open Letter To EPA Administrator & Congress - We’re Not Done Yet!

PA Environment Daily

Cascading Failures Combined To Produce The Worst Nuclear Power Accident In US History At Three Mile Island - By James M. Seif [PaEN] -- 1995-2002: Awards And Recognition For Environmental Programs During The Ridge And Schweiker Administrations [PaEN] [Posted: May 21, 2025] PA Environment Digest By James M.

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Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 11.28.24

PA Environment Daily

1 -- The Allegheny Front: Slag Heap Goes Solar: New 15-Acre Solar Energy Facility To Break Ground In Pittsburgh -- LancasterOnline: Peach Bottom Nuclear Power Plant To Test Sirens Dec. 1 -- WVIA: Heating Bills To Rise 8.7% For UGI Gas Customers Starting Dec. 1 -- WVIA: Heating Bills To Rise 8.7% For UGI Gas Customers Starting Dec.

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German Atomic Energy Act Amendment Illegal - Case Comment BVerfG 1 BvR 1550/19

Energy and Climate Law

By that time the nuclear power plant in Krümmel had several safety issues and small-impact incidents were discovered. Having the developments in Fukushima fresh in mind the German legislator decided that Vattenfall, the owner of the Krümmel nuclear plant, had to close it immediately.

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Guest Essay: March 28, 1979 -- Three Mile Island

PA Environment Daily

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. We had a pleasant and very substantive call, about the press treatment of the incident, the NRC's role, the implications for nuclear power, and so on.

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

14 Hearing [If Requested] On Title V Air Quality Permit For Gas-fired Hummel Station Power Plant In Snyder County [PaEN] -- DEP To Hold Aug. Seif, Former Administrative Assistant to Gov. Dick Thornburgh [PaEN] -- Breathe Project : PA Cong.

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House Hearing Today: Let’s Work Together To Make Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Practices Cleaner, Respect Property Rights, Protect Taxpayers And Prevent New Abandoned Wells

PA Environment Daily

As a result, I was involved with the passage of every major piece of environmental legislation in Pennsylvania for 19 years (1983 through 2002). I helped respond to the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant accident, to severe floods, the worst tornadoes Pennsylvania ever experienced and the million gallon Ashland Oil spill.