PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Other operations have attached themselves to waste coal-fired power plants or have plans to develop next to nuclear power plants. Photos: WESA cryptocurrency mining operation attached to a shale gas well in Elk County; Proposed cryptocurrency operation next to the Talen Susquehanna Nuclear Power Plant in Luzerne County.)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

However, much of the attention paid to the flood risk of power plant sites has centered on nuclear plants, which also require a water source for the creation of steam, as well as for keeping the plant cool in an emergency.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

While Japan once had one of the world’s most diverse energy portfolios, the loss of its nuclear program has caused a sudden shift towards a fossil-fuel heavy generation industry. Subsequently, Japanese greenhouse gas emissions and electricity costs for industrial and residential consumers have skyrocketed. Sendai Nuclear Power Plant.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

SG would cool the Earth, temporarily and imperfectly offsetting some of the climate effects of elevated greenhouse gases, by reflecting a bit (around 0.5% But there is now one big exception: research on solar geoengineering (SG). to 1%) of incoming sunlight.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

The Regulation’s proposed criteria for gaseous fossil fuels (which includes both conventional natural gas, and synthetic gas derived from coal gasification) allow investment in their consumption without restriction in function, scale, or time period, as long as greenhouse gas emissions are no higher than 100 gCO2eq/kWh (see §4.29-31

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