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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

Decommissioning of both units will require the disposal of both high level and low-level radioactive waste and the safe, permanent storage of the nuclear fuel used by both units that is still on Three Mile Island. Our information from the radiation protection staff on the island indicated otherwise. Read more here.

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Remember the Human Cost of Nuclear Weapons: a Letter to the Cast and Crew of Oppenheimer

Union of Concerned Scientists

My organization, the Union of Concerned Scientists, works closely with communities sickened by radiation from nuclear weapons testing, waste, and uranium mining, including those exposed to fallout from the Trinity Test. To pass this bill, we will need much more public awareness and political will than we have had so far.

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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

The most important problem with the sun-climate explanation is that there has been no long-term change in either solar activity or cosmic radiation over the last hundred years that can explain the global warming we are now seeing. We have to spend time and resources to review them and explain why they are wrong.

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Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 8.13.21

PA Environment Daily

Census Data -- ErieT: What Do Latest Figures Mean For Legislative And Congressional Seats In PA? -- WITF: Census Data Drop Puts PA Lawmakers Closer To Drawing State’s New Political Boundaries -- Spotlight PA: PA’s Political Mapmakers Finally Have New Census Data, Now The Hard Work Begins Bipartisan U.S.

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RePlanet Nederland’s review of the draft Delegated Regulation on nuclear energy and gaseous fossil fuels in the sustainable finance taxonomy

Environmental Progress

Their inclusion appears to be the result of a political compromise with Member States rather than of scientific appraisal as in the case of nuclear energy. The Regulation sets a deadline on the operation of final disposal facilities for radioactive waste. The following elements of the Regulation proposal are dealt with in this review.

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State Dept. Of Health Apologizes For Not Listening To Communities Suffering Health Impacts From Shale Gas Development; New Health Study Results ‘Just The Tip Of The Iceberg’

PA Environment Daily

“So in an article I read recently from the New Yorker, it said the DOH [Department of Health] confirmed that this study would look at correlations between illnesses and their proximity to oil and gas infrastructure, but would not directly examine the dangers of radioactive waste. We wanted you to look into radiation, Dr. Levine said, "No." “We

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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

Decommissioning of both units will require the disposal of both high level and low-level radioactive waste and the safe, permanent storage of the nuclear fuel used by both units that is still on Three Mile Island. Our information from the radiation protection staff on the island indicated otherwise. Read more here.