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Promoting Coal, Trump Looks Backward

Circle of Blue

From that year forward, the agency predicted, the use of the dirtiest fuel to generate electricity would steadily decline, carrying with it planet-healing reductions in climate-changing air emissions and water-polluting discharges. The thought is to make coal-fired power plants cheaper to operate.

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Nuclear Energy’s Unsettled Revival

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In January, executives at Constellation Energy startled the world with their plan to restart the closed and cold 840-megawatt Unit 1 reactor at Three Mile Island nuclear power station, site of one of the most dangerous meltdowns in atomic history. Earlier this year when Constellation announced the $1.6

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The Problem is Not Brazil. The Problem is COP

Legal Planet

In rough translation: The question should not be whether Belm has the capacity to host the UN climate conference, but why does the COP not fit in cities like Belm that suffer the impacts of climate change on a daily basis? A nuclear power plant in Arizona and Sammy Roth took a tour.

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PUC Invites Stakeholder Comments On The Issue Of The Adequacy Of Electricity Supplies In Pennsylvania

PA Environment Daily

These trends are raising concerns about electric grid reliability and cost to energy consumers, in particular during the more frequent extreme weather conditions being experienced due to climate change. We depend on one fuel to generate 59% of our electricity-- natural gas-- followed by nuclear power-- 31.9%, coal-- 5.4%

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Monday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 11.11.24

PA Environment Daily

Contact: Nicole Faraguna 717-346-7636 or nfaraguna@pa.gov. formal notice ) -- November 11 - Weekly PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. Contact: Nicole Faraguna 717-346-7636 or nfaraguna@pa.gov. Contact: Nicole Faraguna 717-346-7636 or nfaraguna@pa.gov.

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Wednesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 11.13.24

PA Environment Daily

6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables [ There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay ] -- Reuters: Coterra Energy To Shell Out $3.95

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Why Do Heat Pumps Have a Bad Rap? Lies

Legal Planet

Climate change is making it harder to live without heating and cooling, so if I’m choosing between investing in a gas system or a more efficient heat pump, it’s not a hard choice. The survey captured a drop of 19% in support for wind and solar power. “I Now is hardly the time to lose momentum on climate policies.