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Almost a year after lines opened, residents will say the project remains a risk to public safety

Resolves 2018 order involving more than 1,000 wells.

“This is not 1970, where we can have the concept that because of economic reasons, we can have acceptable levels of materials like this in our drinking water.”

Rafe Pomerance has been a climate activist for 40 years. As an environmental lobbyist for Friends of the Earth, he was one of the first people to agitate for bi-partisan action after reading a 1978 EPA report on coal.

Last Friday around noon, Three Mile Island nuclear power plant stopped producing electricity, part of Exelon Corp.’s plan to close and decommission the plant over the next 60 years.

Those people who support nuclear worry that without tax breaks, the plants will be shut out of a competitive energy market

Owners of existing clean energy power plants in New York say they’d like the same support from the state for their businesses that new ones get.

Strike organizers are calling on their fellow young people to skip school Friday and rally to demand greater action against climate change.

"When you’re looking down on something rather than at ground level, you certainly get to see more of what’s going on."

The Commonwealth Court said last week that the Democratic senator, an outspoken critic of Sunoco, did not have personal or legislative standing to bring a complaint