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Promoting Coal, Trump Looks Backward

Circle of Blue

In China we found the Central Government building new clean energy plants to quadruple wind and solar generation. Before Trump’s assault, water consumption to cool coal-fired plants, once one of the largest users of fresh water in the country, was on the path to be cut 68 percent by 2035, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

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World’s Biggest Court Opinion on Climate

Legal Planet

Driving a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion,” which is weirdly what Zeldin says he’s doing, is not a way to govern. The rates are too damned high and Democrats will need a strategic plan to stabilize or cut electricity costs heading into 2028, Robinson Meyer writes at Heatmap news.

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Top 10 Stories: Harrisburg/PA Politics Reported By Local News Media Last Week

PA Environment Daily

Of Revenue Reports February Tax Collections $44 Million (1.6%) More Than Anticipated; Up $104.3 Ohio- $2.80 Ohio- $2.80

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Nuclear Energy’s Unsettled Revival

Circle of Blue

Our job was to explain how cooling water pumps failed and valves ignored control center commands early on March 28, 1979. State and federal governments approved over $3 billion in public funding to support the restart, which could come this October, just three years after the plant was shut down. and around the world.

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Why smaller is better when it comes to nuclear power

Physics World

Here in the UK, the government has already earmarked up to £215m for SMRs as part of a larger Advanced Nuclear Fund to invest in the next generation of nuclear. It would use liquid sodium both to cool the reactor and store energy. Costing about £2bn, each of its 470 MWe SMRs would be able to power a million homes. Powerful stuff.

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Guide to the New SEC Climate Disclosure Rules

Capaccio

Greenhouse Gas Emissions The rules require large accelerated filers (LAFs) and accelerated filers (AFs) to disclose material Scope 1 (direct) and Scope 2 ( i.e., electricity, steam, heating, or cooling) greenhouse gas emissions. AFs would need to meet this requirement by 2026, and smaller reporting companies and EGCs by 2027.

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Seven Years after Hurricane María, in Puerto Rico You Can’t Even Count on Keeping the Lights On   

Union of Concerned Scientists

Our population is forced to throw away perishable foods, cannot use dialysis machines for patients at home, and cannot cool their homes from the dangerous heat after the storm. Back then, those contracts were canceled by the Puerto Rican government for failing to improve service and meet minimum performance standards.