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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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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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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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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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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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