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Feature- Remembering March 28, 1979 At The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant - The Accident No One Thought Would Happen

PA Environment Daily

Forty-five 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. Three Mile Island is a vivid example of how environmental accidents and disasters that no one thought would happen… actually did. Wasn’t there a bubble?

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Feature- Remembering March 28, 1979 At The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant - The Accident No One Thought Would Happen

PA Environment Daily

Forty-three 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. Three Mile Island is a vivid example of how environmental accidents and disasters that no one thought would happen… actually did. Wasn’t there a bubble?

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We Remember Sept. 11, 2001 - DEP Responds To A National Tragedy

PA Environment Daily

By David Hess, Former Secretary, Department of Environmental Protection We all remember where we were and what we were doing on September 11, 2001, but the employees of the Department of Environmental Protection remember better than most because they played a key role in responding to the Somerset County crash site of Flight 93.

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The Stream, March 1, 2023: Okefenokee Swamp, Among World’s Largest Freshwater Wetlands, Threatened by Proposed Mine

Circle of Blue

In public meetings hosted by the Georgian Environmental Protection Division (EPD), no resident has voiced support for the mine, Georgia Public Broadcasting reports. Today the waters cool the nearby Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Concerns are growing that the mine would also negatively impact the nearby St.

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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - October 14

PA Environment Daily

Many of the notices offer the opportunity for public comments. -- The Department of Environmental Protection has scheduled a November 14 hearing on a proposed RACT III Air Quality Permit for the Energy Transfer Marcus Hook Terminal in Delaware County. Centre County. ( Susquehanna County. ( Susquehanna County. ( Bradford County. (

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We Remember Sept. 11, 2001 - DEP Responds To A National Tragedy

PA Environment Daily

We all remember where we were and what we were doing on September 11, 2001, but the employees of the Department of Environmental Protection remember better than most because they played a key role in responding to the Somerset County crash site of Flight 93. It was from one of the passengers writing to a loved one for the last time.

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Electric Vehicles Combat Climate Change

Global Green

The fastest way to shift the transportation sector to environmental sustainability is to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles (EVs). According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions is from transportation. Gasoline engines are riddled with inefficiencies.