The group wants federal regulators to analyze a “potentially dangerous and risky condition” with new steam generator tubes at the Three Mile Island power plant.
The bill calls nuclear energy 'zero emission' and creates new requirements for how utilities purchase power. The bill is opposed by the gas industry and consumer and environmental groups.
A new report finds coal ash pollution is leaking into groundwater at nine power plants around Pennsylvania and over 200 nationwide. One western Pa. site has arsenic 372 times the 'safe' level.