EP Podcast #18 – Rail mayhem, sexual harassment, bats battling back (casinos too) and a cleric with no shame

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Pa coal-energy plant affecting downwind infants in NJ?

Coal-fired Portland Generating Station in Pa. NJDEP photo

Scott Fallon reports for The Record:

Environmental officials said for years that a coal-fired power plant on the Delaware River in Pennsylvania harmed New Jersey residents by spewing air pollution across state lines.

Now it appears they have proof.

A study published this week by a team of scientists shows New Jersey mothers living as far as 20 to 30 miles downwind from the Portland Generating Station had a greater chance of having babies with low birth weight.

The study said babies born in Morris, Sussex, Hunterdon and Warren counties from 1990 to 2006 were 17 percent more likely to be born with very low birth weight – under 3⅓ pounds – and 6.5 percent more likely to be born with low birth weight – under 5½ pounds.



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DuPont worker charged in theft of 20k trade secret files

Jessica Mazzola reports for NJ.com:

An East Brunswick man was arrested Friday on charges he stole about 20,000 confidential files from his employer to open a consulting business after his retirement, federal authorities said.

Anchi Hou, 61, a retired employee of DuPont, was charged was theft of trade secrets after allegedly copying and stealing the files from the company’s Parlin manufacturing facility, acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick said.

Hou is accused of stealing the proprietary information during the fall and summer of 2016, in advance of his December retirement, authorities said.

The files included formulas, data, and customer information related to developments in flexographic printing plate technology, an advanced form of printing, authorities said.

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At White House meeting, Trump tells Wall Street execs that he will ‘absolutely destroy’ regulations they hate

Prez promises “major haircut” for Dodd-Frank as NYC business leaders seek infrastructure funding and path to citizenship for immigrants Email

Bill de Blasio

President Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up as he arrives for a town hall with business
leaders in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington.

Rosa Goldensohn writes for Crains:

The city’s top business executives bent the ears of President Donald Trump and his advisers Tuesday, pushing policies they say are key to the city and country’s economic growth.

More than 50 members of the Partnership for New York City, the town’s leading business group, had four morning meetings at the White House and were to spend the afternoon with the city’s congressional delegation. The theme of their meeting with the president was the business climate.
Trump told chief executives from financial institutions including Citigroup, Deloitte and HSBC that they would see a rollback of industry regulations cumbersome to Wall Street.
“We are absolutely destroying these horrible regulations that have been placed on your heads over not eight years, over the last 20 and 25 years,” Trump said, promising “things that are going to be very good for the banking industry” and “a very major haircut on Dodd-Frank.”
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Best keep this one off the president’s daily briefing list

Ironic?  Bigly.

Karen Yoder files this story for Grist:

A coal museum in Kentucky is switching to solar power.

EKB-TV
The Kentucky Coal Mining Museum, nestled in the heart of coal country, might seem like an odd place for a solar project. But the solar panels currently being installed on its roof will ultimately save thousands in electricity costs.


The museum is located in the small town of Benham, a former coal camp. Now, the town will partially run on solar: The excess power from the museum’s solar project will feed into the town’s grid.

Solar panels are being installed on the roof of the museumEKB-TV

“It is a little ironic,” Brandon Robinson, communications director at Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College, which owns the museum, told WYMT. “But you know, coal and solar and all the different energy sources work hand-in-hand. And, of course, coal is still king around here.”

In the 2016 election, 85 percent of Harlan County, where Benham is located, voted for Donald Trump — likely in part because of his promise to bring back coal jobs, a promise that experts say is unrealistic.

Maybe those coal miners should be looking to get into the solar business.

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County by county listing of Superfund sites in New Jersey

S.P. Sullilvan reports for NJ Advance Media:

Click the link below for a listing, county by county, of Superfund
sites in New Jersey. Many of them have been cleaned up but require long-term treatment and
monitoring.

With the
EPA’s budget on the chopping block under President
Donald Trump’s administration, advocates worry things will backslide for the
Superfund, which has
already been near-broke for decades

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