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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. With that said though, we are still awaiting more guidance from the federal government on the specifics on how this will all work.

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

Environmental Progress

4] Meanwhile, many experts see in recent trends an inevitable transition away from coal and nuclear power plants, designed to function as baseload capacity, toward variable renewable energy sources with just-in-time natural gas back-up. gigawatts of highly-reliable, low-cost, and low-carbon power. [49] 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

The ideas of Thomas Malthus (center) were used by British governments to justify the Irish Famine, 1845-1848 (left) and Bengali Famine, 1943-1945 (right) before becoming the basis for 20th Century environmentalism. The whole point of referring to Hiroshima was to raise the specter of nuclear weapons explosion. Why else use it?

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Raytheon Makes Nuclear War More Likely

Corp Watch

government drop investigations into over-billing and contract fraud. government charges that it had inflated the cost of Patriot missiles. government charges that it had inflated the cost of Patriot missiles. And in 2003 Raytheon agreed to pay $3.9 The company has paid millions to ensure that the U.S.

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The "Patriots" at Raytheon

Corp Watch

government drop investigations into over-billing and contract fraud. government charges that it had inflated the cost of Patriot missiles. government charges that it had inflated the cost of Patriot missiles. And in 2003 Raytheon agreed to pay $3.9 The company has paid millions to ensure that the U.S.

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Ukraine conflict a boon for defense industry

Corp Watch

government drop investigations into over-billing and contract fraud. government charges that it had inflated the cost of Patriot missiles. government charges that it had inflated the cost of Patriot missiles. And in 2003 Raytheon agreed to pay $3.9 The company has paid millions to ensure that the U.S.

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How Biden’s Foreign-Policy Team Got Rich

Corp Watch

government drop investigations into over-billing and contract fraud. government charges that it had inflated the cost of Patriot missiles. government charges that it had inflated the cost of Patriot missiles. And in 2003 Raytheon agreed to pay $3.9 The company has paid millions to ensure that the U.S.