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Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 6.6.25

PA Environment Daily

-- PEMA Publishes New Guidelines For State Disaster Recovery Assistance Program -- Penn State Extension Hosts July 14 Webinar On Community Science Tool To Track Stream Health [PaEN] -- WHYY: PA American Water, Aqua Pennsylvania Promise To Comply With Current Federal PFAS ‘Forever Chemical’ Regulation -- Republican Herald: West Schuylkill Residents (..)

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RePlanet Nederland’s review of the draft Delegated Regulation on nuclear energy and gaseous fossil fuels in the sustainable finance taxonomy

Environmental Progress

Investors and governments will be expected to refer to the Taxonomy in order to determine whether an activity they want to pursue can be considered sustainable, and under what conditions (screening criteria). For example, the replacement of nuclear power generation by fossil fuels would still be considered a sustainable activity.

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The politics of (bad) policy design: French solar panels and Northern Irish boilers

Environmental Europe

From the abrupt halt to support to photovoltaics in Spain in 2009 to issues with the territorial planning of incentivised wind power in France and Germany (or near Donald Trump’s golf course …) renewable energy policy can prove hard to manage, even (or especially?) data: SOeS ). speculative ones.

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Why Ceding Nuclear to China and Russia Threatens National Security: Michael Shellenberger's Congressional Testimony July 28, 2020

Environmental Progress

In 2009, Cambridge physicist David MacKay showed that providing energy to the UK with 100 percent renewables would require a greater area than the landmass of the entire country. Despite their substantial negative environmental impact, the federal government has repeatedly given the wind industry special rights.

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A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making

Circle of Blue

A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making Time and again, mining company Homestake and government agencies promised to clean up waste from decades of uranium processing. The federal government will eventually assume responsibility for the more than 50 defunct mills that generated this waste. It didn’t happen.

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Locals Aim Their Protest at Weapons Maker Raytheon in Support of Palestine

Corp Watch

government drop investigations into over-billing and contract fraud. based company said it received a criminal subpoena from the Justice Department seeking information and documents related to financial accounting, internal controls over financial reporting and cost reporting at its missiles and defense business since 2009.

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15 people arrested during peaceful 'free Palestine' protest in Louisville

Corp Watch

government drop investigations into over-billing and contract fraud. based company said it received a criminal subpoena from the Justice Department seeking information and documents related to financial accounting, internal controls over financial reporting and cost reporting at its missiles and defense business since 2009.