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Pa. second in U.S. for excessive industry discharges into waterways, says report - Philly

The report looked at EPA data on discharges by industrial facilities during a 21 month span from 2016 to 2017. Texas came in first, with 938 instances of discharges exceeding permitted levels. Pennsylvania followed with 633.

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The oldest nuclear power plant in the United States will shut down in October, more than a year ahead of schedule. Chicago-based Exelon Generation says the Oyster Creek plant in Lacey Township, New Jersey, will close this fall. It had a deadline of Dec. 31, 2019, under an agreement with state authorities.  

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NJ Governor Murphy tells BPU to develop mechanism for ratepayers to subsidize offshore wind, a task it was originally assigned seven years ago. http://bit.ly/2ns4rWN

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Pa. paid at least $3.2 M to settle sex harassment claims

HARRISBURG — State officials have paid at least $3.2 million in taxpayer funds in the last eight years to resolve more than two dozen sexual harassment complaints against government and public employees, according to an analysis by the Inquirer and Daily News and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.Pa. 

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Environmental forums, seminars, workshops and conferences. Educational, social and networking opportunities. In New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware--and beyond!

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Mark Wagenveld, 73, former Inquirer editor and West Phila. civic activist 

 Mark Wagenveld, 73, who went from rural Midwest farmboy to big-city journalist to beloved mainstay of civic life in West Philadelphia, a tall, silent type determined to make a difference but uncomfortable with the spotlight, died at home Saturday, Jan. 27, after a six-month battle with glioblastoma.

Mr. Wagenveld spent the bulk of his newspaper career at the Inquirer, where he was a versatile and even-keeled government reporter, deadline rewrite specialist, and suburban editor. During his tenure in the West Chester, Conshohocken, and Cherry Hill bureaus, his nurturing of young reporters won their respect as well as their affection.

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PSEG nuclear subsidy bill looks to be back on fast track

Revamped legislation includes some modest clean-energy programs, but locks Division of Rate Counsel out of decision if subsidy is needed

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What does Trump's plan for offshore drilling mean for NJ?

When President Trump's administration announced plans earlier this month to reconsider drilling off the Atlantic coast, officials and community leaders up and down the Jersey Shore began digging in for a fight they thought they'd won in 2016. Here are the basic facts behind the plan and the reasons why so many groups are against the proposal. http://bit.ly/2Bp4Uxr

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NY soaks NJ beverage distributor for bottle bill violations

Brian Taylor reports for Recycling Today : New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and Gov. Andrew Cuomo have announced what they...

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Stormy Daniels suddenly a draw at a Greenville strip club

Trophy Club employee “Bird” arranges letters on the marquee in Greenville, S.C. (Kevin D. Liles for The Washington Post) Dan Zak reports ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Year two of the Trump presidency began here overnight much like year one had ended: with his alleged ex-mistress smashing people’s faces into her bare chest at a strip club between an airport and a cemetery.

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Conventional drilling causing radioactivity spike in rivers?

Treatment plants that handle conventional oil and gas waste water are causing a buildup of radioactive materials at the bottom of three Western Pennsylvania waterways, according to a new study from researchers at Duke. 

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WFMZ-TV's 69 News reports tonight: The PennEast Pipeline Project between eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey has gained appr...

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In Allentown, a mayor's federal corruption trial casts pall over revitalizing city

The revitalization is a major accomplishment that Mayor Ed Pawlowski and his supporters have enthusiastically claimed credit for. It's also central to his federal corruption trial, set to start Tuesday.

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Ticks That Fed on Dinosaurs Found Trapped in Amber | National Geographic

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Sam Pesin, the leader of Friends of Liberty State Park, has been warning everyone who will listen that the NJ Department of Environmental Protection has been secretly planning to turn the popular southern end of the park--currently available to the public for picnics, jetty fishing, or viewing the Statue of Liberty and New York Bay--into a private marina for the rich.  Now he has proof.

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MacArthur, NY buddies put GOP tax-plan blame on states

Tom (What, me worry?) MacArthur, best congressional friend of the rich Tom MacArthur--the only congressman from New Jersey backing the GOP tax plan that will deliver huge tax breaks to one-percenters while ravaging the middle class-- joins five fellow Republicans from New York in a novel defense: It's all the fault of your spend-crazy state.

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Oil industry says it will do methane reductions on its own

Amid an effort by the Trump administration to ease rules on the oil and gas sector, 26 companies said they will take voluntary steps to ratchet down emissions on a potent greenhouse gas the Obama administration tried to regulate. The week, the American Petroleum Institute, the largest oil and gas lobbying group in Washington, announced the launch of a program aimed at reducing emissions of methane from oil and natural gas production.

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