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DEP Outlines 2022 Priorities: Make Up Deficit In Oil & Gas Funding; Get Resources Needed To Invest New Federal Mine Reclamation, Oil & Gas Well Plugging Funds

PA Environment Daily

Since 2003, General Fund support for environmental programs in DEP have been cut about 40 percent and as a result staffing was reduced by nearly 30 percent, especially in water quality protection programs. “So In 2010, Gov. Rendell actually bragged about the fact General Fund monies for DEP were below 1994-95 appropriations. Read more here.]

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

Environmental Progress

Congress took questions relating to the security of America’s electricity supply seriously before more than a dozen states experienced energy shortages last month, but those events make this hearing all the more urgent. electrical grids were increasingly “complex and vulnerable.” [2] Shellenberger. 5] The U.S. 5] The U.S.

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

Finally, Gleick claims I argue that the “only solutions” I believe “will work” are “nuclear energy and uninhibited economic growth,” but later writes, “His passionate belief that nuclear is the only answer to our energy and climate problems (maybe along with a mega-dam on the Congo River in Africa).” Why else use it?

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Raytheon Makes Nuclear War More Likely

Corp Watch

And in 2003 Raytheon agreed to pay $3.9 References: Why Bombs Made in America Have Been Killing Civilians in Yemen Here’s Exactly Who’s Profiting from the War on Yemen Drone protest leads to arrest at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems Amazon Contractor Raytheon has CIA Ties General Electric’s RCA Unit Fined $2.5 million to settle U.S.

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The "Patriots" at Raytheon

Corp Watch

And in 2003 Raytheon agreed to pay $3.9 References: Why Bombs Made in America Have Been Killing Civilians in Yemen Here’s Exactly Who’s Profiting from the War on Yemen Drone protest leads to arrest at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems Amazon Contractor Raytheon has CIA Ties General Electric’s RCA Unit Fined $2.5 million to settle U.S.

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Ukraine conflict a boon for defense industry

Corp Watch

And in 2003 Raytheon agreed to pay $3.9 References: Why Bombs Made in America Have Been Killing Civilians in Yemen Here’s Exactly Who’s Profiting from the War on Yemen Drone protest leads to arrest at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems Amazon Contractor Raytheon has CIA Ties General Electric’s RCA Unit Fined $2.5 million to settle U.S.

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How Biden’s Foreign-Policy Team Got Rich

Corp Watch

And in 2003 Raytheon agreed to pay $3.9 References: Why Bombs Made in America Have Been Killing Civilians in Yemen Here’s Exactly Who’s Profiting from the War on Yemen Drone protest leads to arrest at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems Amazon Contractor Raytheon has CIA Ties General Electric’s RCA Unit Fined $2.5 million to settle U.S.