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enemy_of_your_enema t1_j51el9l wrote

It wasn't clear to me after reading the article if the homeowner or the company did it. This line suggests it could have been the homeowner. Why would the company leave their bucket and "oil contaminated household items?"

" Oil contaminated household items and a bucket of heating oil was outside the residence at 111 Minnesota Street,” DEP said."

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enemy_of_your_enema t1_j2ev34w wrote

Reply to comment by Antique-Low3985 in It is 65 degrees by MaryOutside

Interesting data! It makes you wonder if the frequency of hot December days has changed over time. Let's get more data!

We'd need to include temperatures from a longer time period - well before 1926 - to see if these temperatures are actually unusual and look for a trend. And to make our conclusions stronger, we should expand our scope to include average temperatures from all over the world, not just Pittsburgh. When you do that, you get something like this.

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enemy_of_your_enema t1_j23voyk wrote

Such a bummer. I have very few opportunities to go out to eat, but had 2 in the last year. Unfortunately, one time Apteka was closed for "fall break" and the other was a Thursday. I don't understand how they can pay rent adequately if they are open so rarely. Please, let me eat your food, Apteka!

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enemy_of_your_enema t1_j1n9kr1 wrote

Technically First Energy doesn't own power generation since deregulation separated distribution and generation companies. They have spun off companies like First Energy Solutions that actually are generators.

The coal and nuke plants keep shutting down because they are aging, expensive and can't compete with cheaper gas and renewables in the wholesale markets.

We could solve this shortage problem by incentivizing people to install battery storage and solar and giving them a way to share their stored power with the grid in exchange for money.

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enemy_of_your_enema OP t1_j19o9of wrote

From the, ahem, article:

“The time savings was a lot on the front end,” she said, when the agency
and the contractor designed a bridge with “the material that was
available.” She added that Fern Hollow has “a higher factor of safety,”
than it strictly needs; in order to keep the process moving as quickly
as possible, they designed and built with “some conservative engineering
guesses … so we wouldn't have to go back.”

The speed of Fern Hollow’s restoration can not — and will not — become
PennDOT’s new normal, Moon-Sirianni stressed. It was an emergency.

“There’s a lot of folks that work very, very quickly when something is
an emergency,” she said, reeling off as examples PennDOT’s central
office, PennDOT’s bridge specialist and the Federal Highway
Administration. “You can only have so many emergencies.”

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