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Ohioans Stuck Burning Coal, Burning Cash

Union of Concerned Scientists

At the same time, an audit of the subsidies found that purchasing energy and capacity from regional wholesale markets is cheaper than power from the OVEC plants. In addition, FirstEnergy—owner of the two uneconomic nuclear power plants H.B. But thanks to H.B.

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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

The last update was in 2014. There has been no increase in fees for conventional oil and gas drillers since 2014. Background On Oil & Gas Program Funding The latest unconventional well permit fee increase became effective on August 1, 2020 and was already out of date when it was adopted. Read more here.]

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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. million tons of uranium waste left over from milling ore to supply power plants and nuclear bombs. It didn’t happen. Video, Mauricio Rodríguez Pons and Ed Ou.

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Environmental Perspectives

Environmental Science

140 Billion gallons per day to power plants (plus 60 Billion saline). Million tons/yr of waste: 7,600 industrial, 250 municipal, 25 hazardous. 1,900 landfills, 21 for hazardous waste. 100 nuclear reactors; 2,000 tons/yr nuclear waste. 8% nuclear. 23% from groundwater. Food supply requires 1.2

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Sen. Yaw Proposes Independent Energy Office To Promote Development Of PA’s Diverse Energy Portfolio - Natural Gas, Nuclear Power, Coal

PA Environment Daily

The PA Coal Alliance said, “In February of 2014, during a cold snap, PJM found that 23% of total generator outages were due to interruptions of natural gas supply, and in January of 2018, during the polar vortex, half of the total PJM natural gas capacity was not available to supply peak demand.” Read more here. And this isn’t a new problem.

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Wednesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 6.22.22

PA Environment Daily

House Republicans Pass Bill Exempting Conventional Oil & Gas Wells From Plugging Bonds Sticking Taxpayers With $5.1 Billion In Cleanup Liability [PaEN] -- Independent Fiscal Office Projects Up To $24.3 What’s Your Community Doing?

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

Corp Watch

The company’s “bunker buster” bombs were also used by the Israeli military to target the homes of Palestinian civilians in Gaza in 2014. Raytheon’s “bunker buster” bombs were used by Israel to target civilian homes during its 2014 assault on Gaza. The shrapnel was later identified as belonging to Raytheon.