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Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 6.3.25

PA Environment Daily

Bob Casey -- TribLive: Fetterman, McCormick Find Common Ground On Many Issues, Split On Federal Budget Plan -- TribLive: US Dept.

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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

It has therefore drafted a proposal(2)- a Delegated Regulation - which sets out screening criteria for investments in nuclear energy, effectively declaring nuclear energy part of the sustainable finance taxonomy. There are no good arguments to call nuclear a sustainable investment at one time and not sustainable a moment later.

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

Environmental Europe

As one previous post on this blog detailed, the current political turmoil in Northern Ireland was sparked by a subsidy for renewable energy production. Though it is tempting to blame political carelessness, the ongoing RHI scandal prompts a broader reflection about renewable energy policy instruments. 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. Thanks to American leadership, nuclear energy has proven to be the safest and cleanest way to make electricity. Today, the US uses just 0.5

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

Corp Watch

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. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.

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

Corp Watch

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. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.