A new policy framework supports “enhanced bond financing incentives that can be used to improve water quality and reduce other environmental stressors.”
Control-room alerts repeatedly rang out at Florida Power and Light s Turkey Point nuclear plant near Homestead as a reactor underwent three unplanned shutdowns during a four-day period this past August. FPL struggled to get the reactor back online; at one point inexperienced operators ramped up the power rate so quickly that a safety system kicked in and killed the process.
A special inspection by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has since blamed the shutdowns on faulty equipment and lapses in training. (The NRC s inspection report is embedded at the bottom of this story.)
Though the nuclear power plant averted disaster, industry watchdogs question why so many things went wrong at Turkey Point in such a short span of time and whether the feds let FPL off with a slap on the wrist.
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The Revolutionary Fight Over California s Hidden Oil and Gas Wells
An oil well extracts light sweet crude from the ground beneath newly imported cars at the Port of Long Beach.
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Audrey Carleton
At the corner of West Pico Blvd. and South Genesee Ave. in west
Los Angeles sits a tan, six-story building. It’s nothing much to look at: It’s set back from the street by a manicured lawn, lined by a row of trees on each side. An American flag flies out front.
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At a quick glance, it appears no different from any other office building; it looks like it could be home to medical practitioners, accounting firms, or insurance agencies. But sit outside of it for long enough, and you won’t spot many white collar workers coming in or out. Nor would you catch glance of any workers through office windows. That’s because the windows on this building are fake. In fact, the whole building is a facade; its top is open and inside of it is an acti