PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

On April 25, the Department of Environmental Protection announced the release of the 2024 Climate Change Action Plan Update and 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment Report.

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Law Columbia

MAY 27, 2021

In 1978, during a phase of the Cold War when relationships between East and West began to relax, the United States and 4 other nuclear powers (China, France, the Soviet Union and the UK) made unilateral declarations granting security assurances to non-nuclear- weapon states. By Christoph Schwarte* .

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In the mid 80's when drugs became a major issue, Deveney started the first utility based K-9 drug detection program, which placed dogs at two nuclear power plants, as well as other corporate facilities. In 2008, they relocated to Centre County. His clients included law enforcement, corporations and school districts.

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Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Throughout the US, coal has been the leading source of energy for electric power generation. Electric energy generation by renewable sources has doubled since 2008. Almost 90 percent of the increase in renewables came from wind- and solar-power generation. Recently that has changed.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2016

million in auction proceeds that have been collected since the program was launched in 2008. The amount that the Senate has proposed diverting from the RGGI fund for FY 2017 is more than 80% of the total value of RGGI auction proceeds earned by New York in FY 2016 (which totaled approximately $166 million ).

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Aaron Kaufer (R-Luzerne): A bill to “repurpose money from Act 129 [utility energy efficiency programs] of 2008, which expanded the Public Utility Commission’s oversight responsibilities, to redirect unused dollars for energy efficiency and conservation programs.” -- Rep. from other sources. Read more here.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 16, 2018

Many civil disobedience activists in the 1960s and 70s attempted to use it to justify their illegal actions in protests over foreign wars or nuclear power, for example, but achieved little to no success. 10, 2008), [link]. Courts were—and remain—skeptical that such acts can fairly be said to avoid or reduce the harm protested.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The attorney general said that PwC also served from at least 2008 to 2013 as global advisor and report writer for the Carbon Disclosure Project, a non-profit organization that functions as a global disclosure system for environmental information, including greenhouse gas emissions, from companies including Exxon.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

Currently, the states in our analysis meet their electricity needs with a mix of different electricity sources, including fossil fuels, nuclear power and renewables. In fact, the average residential rate nationally was 8 percent higher in January than it was a year earlier, the biggest annual increase since 2008.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2022

. -- 65 Percent Of Shale Gas Leases Not Used In State Forests: DCNR said during budget hearings this year 65 percent of the land already leased for natural gas drilling on State Forest land in 2008 and 2010 hasn’t been developed. They could start drilling on these leases today if they wanted to.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

Because of the inherently dual military-civilian nature of nuclear energy, Congress and most presidential administrations have long viewed America’s nuclear power plants, and our involvement in the nuclear energy programs of other nations, as top national security priorities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The United States and Russia agree: as war rages in Ukraine, only an irresponsible and reckless nuclear power would move nuclear weapons into Europe. Sending such a signal in the middle of an ongoing crisis would heighten tensions and increase the risk of nuclear escalation. The problem?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2022

The natural gas industry could even start drilling on the 65 percent of State Forest land it leased in 2008 and 2010, but never developed for gas. Read more here. And Their Politicians] -- ScrantonT Editorial: Lackawanna Transit Should Prepare For Electric Buses -- U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2022

percent in the 10-state RGGI region from 2008 to 2020. Note: Market-driven competition with natural gas has shut down 20 coal-fired power plants in Pennsylvania, with only three remaining [ Read more here.] and one nuclear power plant-- Three Mile Island Unit 1.] “I percent in Pennsylvania and 46.9 Read more here.] “So

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Legal Planet

MAY 26, 2022

The Climate Change Act of 2008 was amended in 2019 under a coalition government of the Conservatives and their North Irish allies. Rather than weakening the 2008 law, the amendment set a target of net-zero GHG emissions by 2050. Indeed, the UK remains a leader on the subject. The short-term goal is 95% low carbon energy by 2030.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

on Thursday, capping a battle that began in 2008, when it was revealed that a toxic plume was under the area. USA: Raytheon Agrees to Deal with Residents Kameel Stanley | Tampa Bay Times | June 17, 2011 A neighborhood's years-long fight with a multibillion-dollar corporation over pollution has come to an end. Residents in St.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

on Thursday, capping a battle that began in 2008, when it was revealed that a toxic plume was under the area. USA: Raytheon Agrees to Deal with Residents Kameel Stanley | Tampa Bay Times | June 17, 2011 A neighborhood's years-long fight with a multibillion-dollar corporation over pollution has come to an end. Residents in St.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

on Thursday, capping a battle that began in 2008, when it was revealed that a toxic plume was under the area. USA: Raytheon Agrees to Deal with Residents Kameel Stanley | Tampa Bay Times | June 17, 2011 A neighborhood's years-long fight with a multibillion-dollar corporation over pollution has come to an end. Residents in St.

Technology 52

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

on Thursday, capping a battle that began in 2008, when it was revealed that a toxic plume was under the area. USA: Raytheon Agrees to Deal with Residents Kameel Stanley | Tampa Bay Times | June 17, 2011 A neighborhood's years-long fight with a multibillion-dollar corporation over pollution has come to an end. Residents in St.

Technology 52

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

on Thursday, capping a battle that began in 2008, when it was revealed that a toxic plume was under the area. USA: Raytheon Agrees to Deal with Residents Kameel Stanley | Tampa Bay Times | June 17, 2011 A neighborhood's years-long fight with a multibillion-dollar corporation over pollution has come to an end. Residents in St.

Technology 52

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

on Thursday, capping a battle that began in 2008, when it was revealed that a toxic plume was under the area. USA: Raytheon Agrees to Deal with Residents Kameel Stanley | Tampa Bay Times | June 17, 2011 A neighborhood's years-long fight with a multibillion-dollar corporation over pollution has come to an end. Residents in St.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

on Thursday, capping a battle that began in 2008, when it was revealed that a toxic plume was under the area. USA: Raytheon Agrees to Deal with Residents Kameel Stanley | Tampa Bay Times | June 17, 2011 A neighborhood's years-long fight with a multibillion-dollar corporation over pollution has come to an end. Residents in St.

Technology 52

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

on Thursday, capping a battle that began in 2008, when it was revealed that a toxic plume was under the area. USA: Raytheon Agrees to Deal with Residents Kameel Stanley | Tampa Bay Times | June 17, 2011 A neighborhood's years-long fight with a multibillion-dollar corporation over pollution has come to an end. Residents in St.

Technology 52

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

on Thursday, capping a battle that began in 2008, when it was revealed that a toxic plume was under the area. USA: Raytheon Agrees to Deal with Residents Kameel Stanley | Tampa Bay Times | June 17, 2011 A neighborhood's years-long fight with a multibillion-dollar corporation over pollution has come to an end. Residents in St.

Technology 52

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

At the same time, the natural gas industry was in disarray, coal burning was damaging the environment, and the nuclear power industry collapsed. Additionally, in the 2010s, solar and wind generated electricity became cost competitive with, if not outright cheaper than coal, natural gas, and nuclear power.

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