PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 9, 2023

From 2017 to 2022, shale gas operators sent a total of 911,006 cubic feet of radioactive TENORM waste to low-level radioactive waste facilities for disposal. All four states in the Appalachian LLRW Compact-- Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia-- sent a total of 68,727 cubic feet of LLRW waste in 2022. Read more here.

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Energy and Climate Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

By that time the nuclear power plant in Krümmel had several safety issues and small-impact incidents were discovered. Having the developments in Fukushima fresh in mind the German legislator decided that Vattenfall, the owner of the Krümmel nuclear plant, had to close it immediately.

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New Scientist

APRIL 12, 2024

“Every capability in the [Department of Defense] is underpinned by the fact that strategic deterrence will hold,” US Strategic Command (STRATCOM), which is responsible for nuclear deterrence, insists publicly. Until the autumn of 2022, this promise was pinned on STRATCOM’s public Twitter feed. This is madness. We must reverse course.”

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Monday] -- WSJ: BP Slows Transition To Renewable Energy As Oil Bonanza Continues -- Reuters: BP Makes Record Profit In 2022, Boosts Oil Spending -- The Economist: Where On Earth Is Big Oil Spending Its $200 Billion Profit Bonanza? 17 -- Warren Times: Eagle Watch Event Set For Feb.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

The IEA report found that the share of wind and solar in the power generation mix is expected to rise to 35% in 2025 up from 29% in 2022. The Asia Pacific region is expected to lead the charge when it comes to the largest gains in renewable power, with an annual average growth rate of 11.6%.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

Over the last four winters, winter storms Uri (February 2021), Elliott (December 2022), and most recently, Heather (January 2024) interrupted weekly U.S. natural gas production in 2023 and had accounted for 60% in 2022. These three regions combined accounted for 66% of U.S. from other sources. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 26, 2022

Energy Information Agency’s 2022 Annual Energy Outlook webpage for lots more detail. Renewable Diesel Supply To Surpass Biodiesel [Posted: March 26, 2022] PA Environment Digest Here are some key takeaways from the U.S. Resource Links: -- EIA Projects U.S. Electricity By 2050 -- EIA Projects U.S.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2023

Mongabay reports that between 2015 and 2022, more than 200 people have died from drownings, cave-ins, and landslides. This Week’s Top Water Stories, Told In Numbers 2 Number of meters (approximately 6 feet) that the Kakhovka reservoir has dropped since November 2022, NPR reports.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

By 2050, gas plants operate at less than 6 percent of their rated capacity during the year compared to more than 38 percent for all gas plants in 2022, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). It also ignores the reality that gas power plant failures correlate with outages that occur in extreme weather.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 30, 2023

That lower-than-expected electricity demand also makes spring (and the other “shoulder” season, fall) the go-to seasons for fossil fuel and nuclear power plants to go offline for scheduled maintenance—or refueling, in the case of the nuclear plants. That means that there are fewer of them competing to supply demand.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 7, 2023

India missed its target to install 175 GW of renewable energy by 2022, and is now trying to make up for that by boosting solar, wind, nuclear, hydropower and bio-power to 500 GW by 2030. Wind power is set to play a key part in the target of 50 GW of new green energy tenders each year at 10 GW. in 2019 to 72.8%

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

While it is a heavily polluting fossil fuel that is set to continue declining as a fuel source for US electricity generation over the next decade, coal still accounted for roughly 20 percent of the country’s generation in 2022. About 70 percent of US coal is transported at least part of the way by trains.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2023

By Dave Jenkins, Conservatives For Responsible Stewardshi p The following goest essay first appeared in the Erie Times on March 27, 2023 -- We are at an inflection point on energy: 2022 was the first year when global investment in carbon-free sources of energy matched investment in fossil fuels. High overseas demand for U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

. -- November 21 PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN] -- UPDATED: After 14 Days, Efforts To Stop A Natural Gas Leak At A Cambria County Underground Gas Storage Area Have Apparently Been Successful [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Equitrans Natural Gas Storage Well Plugged With Cement, Company Says, Capping A 14 Day Leak -- AP: Equitrans: (..)

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Exelon has the lowest locational marginal price at $180 per MW because they rely primarily on nuclear power plants. Exelon has the lowest locational marginal price at $180 per MW because they rely primarily on nuclear power plants. on December 24, 2022 and 10:00 a.m. on December 25, 2022. At about 1:00 a.m.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Greenworks Law & Consulting LLC The following article first appeared on LinkedIn November 19, 2022 -- On November 3, 2022, Pennsylvania Governor Wolf quietly signed into law resurrecting the prospect of liquified natural gas ("LNG") export facilities at the Port of Philadelphia. Williams, Esq.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 31, 2022

This summer, Newsom managed to get a sweeping energy budget bill passed that gives a state agency the authority to buy electricity from existing fossil fuel power plants and build new emergency or temporary power plants as well. All that being said, it’s still 2022 and September is upon us.

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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. The Soaring Eagle Wetland, our signature property, phase I project was completed in fall of 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

On March 7, the Independent Fiscal Office issued its latest Pennsylvania Electricity update that reports the electricity grid is dependent on one fuel for 59% of the state’s electricity generation-- natural gas-- followed by nuclear power-- 31.9%, coal-- 5.4% from other sources. Read more here. Energy Information Administration.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In the weeks after September 11, DEP employees again played key roles in helping to respond to the scare created by the anthrax attacks, running down potential threats to public water supplies, dams, nuclear power plants and other infrastructure. Related Articles: -- We Remember Sept.

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

The country’s struggle to reduce its reliance on coal was significantly helped by the purely ideological and populist decision to phase out all its nuclear power stations by 2022 (initially following the Fukushima accident in 2011 in Japan) .

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Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The country wants to close the last nuclear power plant by 2022 and simultaneously phase-out coal by 2038 at latest. Germany is in the midst of fundamentally restructuring its energy sector.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 11, 2023

Numerous studies have shown that Ontario can meet its growing electricity demand with wind and solar, which can easily be combined with storage technologies to deliver power when needed. There really is no reason to build new gas plants or nuclear power projects when we have cleaner, cheaper, and safer alternatives.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Muth Raises More Questions About NPDES Permit DEP Issued For Eureka Resources Drilling Wastewater Treatment Plant In Susquehanna County -- Health Department Distributing Free Potassium Iodide Tablets To Pennsylvanians Near State’s Four Active Nuclear Power Plants Sept. Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 16, 2023

18 Webinar Launching 9th Compendium Of Scientific, Medical Findings Demonstrating Risks, Harms Of Natural Gas Development, Infrastructure Sierra Club's Delaware County Team Hosts Oct. 30; Will Schedule Additional Hearings EPA Awards Penn State Hershey Medical Center $1.19

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 7, 2023

Ukraine has accused Russia of planning to carry out a sabotage attack at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant that it has controlled since it seized it by force in March 2022. Although it reports this morning that this current threat is decreasing, the situation is fluid and the plant remains vulnerable to both accidents and attacks.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2022

More radioactivity is expected from the other sources because they include nuclear power plants. In terms of radioactivity, the TENORM waste represented just 3.74 Ci (curies), while the low-level radioactive waste shipped for disposal represented 1,682 Ci.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 17, 2022

They include the Keystone XL oil pipeline in the United States and Canada; the Carmichael coal mine in Australia; the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in New Jersey; and the Pascua-Lama gold mine on the border of Argentina and Chile. The post What’s Up With Water — May 17, 2022 appeared first on Circle of Blue.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2023

16 On Cryptocurrency Mining Moratorium Bill; Resolution To Study Potential Of Geothermal Energy From Abandoned Mine Pools [PaEN] -- DOE Awards Natural Gas-Based Hydrogen Hub In Western PA, Renewable/Nuclear Power-Based Hydrogen Hub In Eastern PA; Reactions [PaEN] [Posted: October 14, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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Circle of Blue

JULY 26, 2022

In France, nuclear power plants have been throttled back because rivers are too warm to cool the equipment. The post What’s Up With Water — July 26, 2022 appeared first on Circle of Blue. In Germany, water levels are shrinking fast on the River Rhine, a vital waterway for shipping and a major source of hydropower.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

There were two rotating outages during a heatwave in August 2020, a close call when a wildfire knocked out a critical transmission line in July 2021, and the state just barely squeaked by in September 2022 when a historic heatwave led to record-high electricity demand. The list goes on, but you get the point.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

The Supreme Court of Japan may soon weigh in on a growing field of climate litigation in Japan against coal-fired power plants. On May 6, 2022, the Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant filed an appeal to Japan’s Supreme Court in Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 8, 2023

This free online resource includes a searchable database that catalogues all of the climate change-related provisions in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), as well as a tracker that records actions taken by federal agencies to implement those provisions. The IRA Tracker homepage.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 11, 2022

To accomplish this the law advances everything from “food residuals” and organic materials diversion, a new environmental justice litmus test, a solar panel “recovery, reuse, and recycling working group,” an electric school bus mandate, recognizes “nuclear power” as a carbon free energy source, and much, much more.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Ontario Power Generation has been quietly selling off Clean Energy Credits from its hydro and nuclear power to businesses in the United States since about 2013. million between 2022 and 2026. But we just found out about it this year. . The company has earned close to $7.2 Where is all of this money going?

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 17, 2022

The enrolled bill, now a statute known as the Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022 , is premised on the idea that “the State has the ingenuity to reduce the threat of global warming and make GHG reductions a part of the State’s future” by, among other things, achieving net zero statewide GHG emissions by 2045. only days from now).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2023

Forty-four years ago on March 28, 1979, Pennsylvanians woke up to a much different world -- the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Dauphin County. On December 25, 2022, the excitement of Christmas Day morning was replaced with fear at 7:20 a.m. commercial nuclear power industry.

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