Three Mile Island EMERGENCY DRILL Leaves One Doubting or “Tales from the...
by Scott Portzline The recent emergency drill at Three Mile Island has left me scratching my head and wondering about the initial assessment by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the...
View ArticleCircumventing Transparency: Pennsylvania’s Latest Shell Game to Protect Big...
David M. Jacobson wanted a transcript of a public hearing conducted by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), May 2. The public meeting was to allow persons to discuss a...
View ArticleHazardous waste for years dumped illegally at Harrisburg incinerator, DEP...
Hazardous waste for years was illegally processed and improperly disposed at the grounds of the Harrisburg incinerator, documents on file with Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection...
View ArticleStanding Tall for Landowner Rights
Julia Trigg Crawford of Direct, Texas, is the manager of a 650-acre farm that her grandfather first bought in 1948. The farm produces mostly corn, wheat, and soy. On its north border is the Red River;...
View ArticleMount Ashmore: Rugged monument to bad government
Internationally infamous dirty incinerator ash field at center of new PA bond deal The mystery of the ‘missing’ toxic waste at Harrisburg’s incinerator Directors of the Harrisburg and Lancaster,...
View ArticleGreenest American Presidents
Rankings were based on the polling of leaders from 12 national environmental groups. Top presidential pick received three points, second pick two points, and third pick one point. Total points were...
View ArticleThe Long Road From Lancaster To Buy the Harrisburg Incinerator
In their own words: How a $45 million deal morphed into a $150 million crap shoot Lancaster Authority minutes shed light on $100 + million trash burner purchase: • The original purchase price of the...
View ArticleLancaster Waste Authority’s Mysterious Offshore Cayman Islands Account
Lancaster paradise: Risky business in the Caymans? Funds from offshore account used to pay previous bond issue LCSWMA’s unusual practices seem to be a ’creative-finance fund,’ rather than the prudent...
View ArticleTop Ten Dirtiest Cities in America
1. Fresno, California 2. Bakersfield, California 3. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 4. Bridgeport, Conn. 5. Modesto, California 6. Riverside, California 7. New Haven, Connecticut 8. San Jose, California 9....
View ArticleNew NRC Study Shows Benefits of Transferring Spent Fuel to Dry Casks
by David Wright The study released Monday by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on the potential consequences of an earthquake on spent fuel pools reinforces our concerns about spent fuel pool...
View ArticleNuclear Watchdog Group Says the Results of a Hostile Action Drill at Three...
For Immediate Release: 7/31/2013 Contact: Scott Portzline – Three Mile Island Alert 717-232-8863 Nuclear Watchdog Group Says the Results of a Hostile Action Drill at Three Mile Island are Grievously...
View Article‘Putting People over Profits’: The Fight Against Fracking
Pennsylvanians want to put a moratorium on fracking. And it’s not just a few thousand, but a majority of the state’s residents. Pennsylvania lies in the heart of the Marcellus Shale, possibly the most...
View ArticleParties at center of Attorney General investigation of Harrisburg incinerator...
Pennsylvanians for whatever reason have a lot of problems calling the cops. Some of our biggest criminal cases, past and present, involve the startling question: Why didn’t they call the cops? This was...
View ArticleTom Corbett’s Sizzle has Fizzled
With his popularity about the same as a hairy wart, Gov. Tom Corbett (R-Pa.) had to make some critical changes in his administration if he has any hope of winning a second term in 2014. There are many...
View ArticleIncinerator Sale: Testimony of Eric Epstein Before the Harrisburg City Council
Since 1987 I have document noncompliance issues afflicting the Harrisburg Steam Generating Faculty (“HSGF”), renamed the Harrisburg Materials, Energy, Recycling and Resource Recovery Facility...
View ArticleTake It or Leave It: LCSWMA’s Jim Warner Bristles at Tough Questions From...
Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority (LCSWMA) CEO Jim Warner faced tough questions at Harrisburg city council meeting Thursday night. The council meeting was held to consider the city...
View ArticleStanding in the Sunshine, The Answer is Blowin’ in the Wind
Tokelau, an independent territory of New Zealand, is a small three island archipelago of about 1,400 residents about 300 miles north of American Samoa in the South Pacific. In October 2012, the...
View ArticleJumping Aboard Fracking’s Fossil Fuel Carousel
Two Pennsylvania legislators who have taken money from—and enthusiastically supported—the natural gas industry have teamed up to now praise coal. State Sen. Gene Yaw (R-Williamsport), chair of the...
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