The control room at Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station is seen on Feb. 19, 2019.
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Nuclear bailout deadline a few months away
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The control room at Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station is seen on Feb. 19, 2019.
From The Context, PA Post’s weekday email newsletter:
State police respond to 30,000 incidents per year in the city of Philadelphia. That might sound like Philly’s getting a lot of state help — but it actually only represents one-third of a single day’s policing activity there. State Sen. Sharif Street, D-Philadelphia, made sure to supply the stats to give everyone perspective on the raw number after it was quoted at a budget hearing I attended yesterday. -Emily Previti, Newsletter Producer/Reporter
Tick tock
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The control room at Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station in York County.
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As Three Mile Island faces decommissioning, Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station in Delta, York County, 50 miles south, is among the small group of nuclear plants going for a new operating license. PA Post’s Ed Mahon took a look inside Peach Bottom (which has a rich history of problems, particularly in its early years, though not at the TMI-accident level) for this story.
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If Pa. lawmakers want to prop up the industry, they have until June 1 to approve the bill, or one like it. Marc Levy of the Associated Press lays out the full scenario in Harrisburg here.
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With five nuclear plants still humming, Pennsylvania generates more nuclear power than any other state but Illinois — one of three that have approved bailout packages. One such measure is pending in Harrisburg and could affect TMI’s fate.
Best of the rest
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Students at Lansdale Catholic High School in a 2017 file photo.
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The state could end up losing hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue under a bill kicking around in the state Senate. Sponsored by Republican Mike Regan, who represents Cumberland and York counties, the measure would expand Pa.’s Education Investment Tax Credit program, which gives tax breaks to people who donate to scholarship organizations. Avi Wolfman-Arent has more details for Keystone Crossroads.
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Day 2 of the trial over the Pa. Department of Corrections mail policy featured not testimony but lawyers for both sides negotiating a possible settlement. WITF’s Katie Meyer reports that news of an agreement could come as early as today.
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Two state lawmakers are trying again to create a fund to help paramedics and emergency medical technicians deal with post traumatic stress disorder. The proposals, which died last session, would increase traffic ticket fines to generate money to help pay for related workers’ compensation and mental health/stress management programs. The full story from Transforming Health’s Brett Sholtis is here.
