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Promoting Coal, Trump Looks Backward

Circle of Blue

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. Department of Energy ordered the plant to stay open. It, too, was ordered to remain operating.

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Nuclear Energy’s Unsettled Revival

Circle of Blue

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. Power plants could activate one reactor and generate revenue as they install the next.

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Why smaller is better when it comes to nuclear power

Physics World

Mention “nuclear power” and attention almost immediately turns to safety. Despite huge advances in nuclear technology in recent decades, everyone still thinks about the accidents that occurred at older reactors like Chernobyl , Three Mile Island or Fukushima. Dozens of countries don’t even have – or don’t want – nuclear power.

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

Maybe [Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant Restart] Background On Issues -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Sept. 4 Hearing, Meeting Set [PaEN] -- Environmental Health Project: State Dept.

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Why Do Heat Pumps Have a Bad Rap? Lies

Legal Planet

My partner and I, and our 9-year-old, don’t have central heating and cooling, so we sweat through LA summers with a single window AC-unit and shiver through our (mild) winters with nothing but a space heater. Our ancient wall furnaces are red tagged for leaks. If you like your 15-year-old water heater, you can keep it.