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NRDC: Regulation Is Too Weak For Radioactive Oil And Gas Drilling Wastewater, Other Waste

PA Environment Daily

Bedrock federal environmental, health, and safety laws have gaping loopholes and exemptions that allow radioactive oil and gas materials to go virtually unregulated, including the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act that governs waste management, the Atomic Energy Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Clean Air Act.

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Cold War Nuclear Weapons Put St. Louis Community At Riskā€”in 2023

Union of Concerned Scientists

Our illnesses are from CHRONIC, low-level exposure from ionizing radiation over YEARS, through ingestion and inhalation. The Jana Elementary community also has concerns surrounding radiation exposure related to the Manhattan Project , and were recently making headlines for seeking answers and getting conflicting exposure reports.

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The opportunities and challenges of doing science in China

Physics World

In 2011 I returned to Australia to work at Curtin University and in 2017 moved to China to the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) in Beijing. There was no social unrest or dissatisfaction with the government. I was born in Italy and did a PhD in astrophysics at the Australian National University.

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DEP Secretary Negrin To Citizen Activists: ā€˜We Donā€™t Represent Chevron, We Donā€™t Represent Shell And Iā€™ve Made That Absolutely Clear-- Weā€™re Holding Those Leaders Accountableā€™

PA Environment Daily

Lisa Johnson Lisa Johnson, Lisa Johnson & Associates, is an attorney representing citizens and local governments in a number of cases appealing DEP actions and inactions. It is extremely disturbing for residents to interact with government officials who are supposed to be protecting them, who disrespect them and mock them.

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Five Things the ā€œNuclear Brosā€ Donā€™t Want You to Know About Small Modular Reactors

Union of Concerned Scientists

In addition, dozens of units would have to be produced before manufacturers could learn how to make their processes more efficient and achieve those capital cost reductions, meaning that the first reactors of a given design will be unavoidably expensive and will require large government or ratepayer subsidies to get built.

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Green on Top: Zoning Against Climate Change with Green-Roof Legislation

Vermont Law

As Catherine Malina wrote in a Georgetown International Environmental Law Review article in 2011, however, green-roof zoning laws could be effective and cost-efficient options to mitigate heat pollution from urban microclimates known as. Green-roofs buffer some stormwater, sequester carbon, and improve water quality. flood-prone regions.

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RePlanet Nederlandā€™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). Extending the license of existing installations is particularly efficient in environmental and economic terms.