by Rep. Tom Mehaffie
Published October 23, 2024
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Three Mile Island has been a cornerstone of my life since childhood. As a proud member of IBEW 143, my father provided for our family through the wages he earned at TMI. Thanks to his job, we never had to worry about making ends meet. He was able to retire with dignity, supported by a pension and benefits that ensured our family’s well-being.

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by Seth Kaplan
Published October 16, 2024
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DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — They gave tours like this one back in the 1970s, when the reactor was new, and the visuals aren’t too different: lots of big analog dials in the main control room of Three Mile Island’s Unit One, with a smattering of touchscreens and other newer technology.

And the vintage technology — or what passed for technology in 1974 — is just fine with the people who run the place. For one thing, no risk of hacking for equipment not networked with cyber-anything. For another?

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by Tom Lehman
Published October 16, 2024
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LONDONDERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — With plans to reopen the nuclear power plant at Three Mile Island revealed last month, WGAL was able to tour the facility on Wednesday as the operator embarks on a years-long plan to restart one of the reactor units in Dauphin County.

Constellation Energy says it wants to restart Reactor Unit 1 at Three Mile Island, which was the site of the worst commercial nuclear disaster in U.S. history after the adjacent reactor experienced a partial meltdown in 1979.

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by Joe Gusler
Published October 4, 2024
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Reopening TMI Unit 1 is huge shot in the arm for PA Building Trades

News that Constellation Energy, the owner of Three Mile Island Unit 1, will be reopening the nuclear power plant is a huge shot in the arm for the 130,000 building and construction trades workers I am privileged to represent in Pennsylvania. Constellation is calling it the Crane Clean Energy Center; I call it some of the best news I’ve heard in a long time.

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by Rep. Tom Mehaffie
Published October 1, 2024
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When PJM Interconnection updated its projections to say the regional power grid will need an additional 300,000 gigawatt hours of electricity to meet annual demand by 2039, alarm bells sounded in my mind. That figure exceeds the total of what is already produced in Pennsylvania each year.

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by Flora Cardoni
Published January 11, 2024
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As Pennsylvanians are taking stock of 2023 and setting resolutions for 2024, our elected officials should be setting some resolutions of their own to more rapidly transition the Keystone State to clean energy. Data shows that as states across the country tap into the clean energy economy, Pennsylvania has fallen behind.

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by Rachel McDevitt
Published January 3, 2024
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A bill in the state House would increase the amount of electricity Pennsylvania gets from renewable sources. The proposal would up Pennsylvania’s renewable energy goals from 8% now to 30% by 2030.

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by Jeaneen Zappa
Published December 14, 2023
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Small businesses are the lifeblood of the American economy. Nowhere is this more evident than in Pennsylvania, where they constitute a staggering 99.6% of all businesses, and employ nearly half of the private workforce.

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by Cassie Miller
Published November 29, 2023
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Four Pennsylvania environmental groups — PennFuture, Clean Air Council, Sierra Club, and Environmental Defense Fund — have filed an appeal of the Nov. 1 Commonwealth Court ruling that bars Pennsylvania from joining a multi-state carbon credit program known as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative or RGGI.

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