A Perfect Storm for Maritime Policy: The Jones Act Five Years after Hurricane Maria

A Perfect Storm for Maritime Policy: The Jones Act Five Years after Hurricane Maria

ByJosh Marcinik

Atmospheric pressure readings plummeted. At 5:00 AM, the National Hurricane Center issued a bulletin: Hurricane Maria, transformed from a Saharan dust storm into a major Category 4 hurricane careening across the Caribbean Sea, would make landfall in Puerto Rico within the hour. It was September 20th, 2017. Separated by nearly a thousand miles of blue…

Nuclear Energy is Critical

Nuclear Energy is Critical

ByJosh Marcinik

If we’re serious about a secure, habitable future in Pennsylvania, we should embrace atomic power generation. By closing a block valve early on March 28, 1979, engineers narrowly averted a reactor meltdown at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. Such a meltdown might have stopped unaided, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission later reported, or continued…