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Locust Walk on the University of Pennsylvania campus in West Philadelphia.
Community

Penn says it won’t invest directly in some fossil fuels. For students, that’s not enough

The university says it’s moving its investments away from carbon-intensive energy sources. Fossil Free Penn wants clarification and more details.

6 years ago

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Penn students (from left) Ben Moss-Horwitz, Ethan Kaimana, Jay Vaingankar, Jana Pugsley and Amira Chowdhury, are headed to New Hampshire to spend the weekend canvassing for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Philly-area volunteers join final New Hampshire primary blitz with extra urgency

Philly-area volunteers flocked to New Hampshire to help win over undecided primary voters, acknowledging urgency after the muddled Iowa caucus results.

6 years ago

Listen 1:34
(NBC10 Philadelphia)
Politics & Policy

Councilmember Parker wants Philadelphia voters to weigh in on ‘stop and frisk’

Councilmember Cherelle Parker quietly introduced an ordinance that would put a charter change question on the November ballot.

6 years ago

Listen 2:18
Bilal Motley
PlanPhilly
Community

Refinery shouldn’t reopen, PES worker-turned-filmmaker says

Bilal Motley’s 48-minute documentary, “Midnight Oil,” chronicles the last days of the South Philly complex. Some of his former coworkers are not pleased.

6 years ago

Listen 5:03
Rodney Everett, 61, takes a walk in his Grays Ferry neighborhood. He is worried that living near the former Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery may make him sick. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Philly has a new way to track air quality — but it won’t help in an emergency

For the first time, officials will know how air quality compares in different parts of the city. But the new system isn’t designed for real-time use.

6 years ago

Transmission tower. (Anprocházka/Flickr)
Urban Planning
NJ Spotlight

Transmission upgrades push electricity prices for residential, commercial customers

Increases projected to be modest, after most recent power auction, but BPU does raise concerns about money utilities are pumping into transmission.

6 years ago

Danielle Outlaw during a press conference where she was introduced as the new Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department at City Hall in Philadelphia on Dec. 30, 2019. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Politics & Policy

New Philadelphia police chief starts amid surge in homicides

Philadelphia's new police commissioner will start work amid a surge in homicides so far this year and allegations of racism and gender discrimination in the police force.

6 years ago

A rocket launching at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. (Wallops Flight Facility)
Down the Shore
Community

Rocket launch likely to be visible at the Jersey Shore

A rocket launch will likely dazzle sky-gazers throughout the region early Sunday evening.

6 years ago

The cruise ship Anthem of the Seas is docked at the Cape Liberty Cruise Port on Friday, Feb. 7, 2020, in Bayonne, N.J. Four passengers were screened for coronavirus and tested negative. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen)
Health

4 cruise ship passengers test negative for coronavirus

Four passengers who were taken to a hospital after their cruise ship arrived in Bayonne, New Jersey for evaluation tested negative for the novel coronavirus.

6 years ago

LED lighting can save municipalities up to 30% percent on their street lighting costs. (Flickr/CC BY-SA 4.0)
Urban Planning
NJ Spotlight

Making the case for replacing N.J.’s municipal streetlights with LED lighting

Local officials, utilities among those urging BPU to adopt the lighting, which is supposed to reduce energy costs, greenhouse gas emissions.

6 years ago

AIDS Delaware hopes a new testing van will help more people get tested for HIV. (courtesy AIDS Delaware)
Health

HIV testing hits the streets in Delaware

A new van will make it more convenient for AIDS Delaware to test for HIV.

6 years ago

Speaker Nancy Pelosi holds up three fingers in reference to H.R. 3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act in Trenton, NJ. (Becca Haydu for WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Impeachment over, Pelosi and N.J. House Dems focus on lowering prescription drug costs

The roundtable discussion was a re-promotion of the bill H.R.3, more formally known as the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Act.

6 years ago

U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-9th) said “USPS Fairness Act” could help secure the future health of the agency. (Corey Ryan Hanson/Pixabay)
Courts & Law

Lawmakers Act to ease fiscal burden of retiree benefits on USPS

All members of New Jersey delegation support move in House to go back to pay-as-you-go system for retiree health benefits

6 years ago

A child died from a gunshot wound at a house in Browns Mills, New Jersey, authorities said Friday night. (NBC 10 Philadelphia)
Community

Prosecutor: Boy, 4, dead of gunshot believed self-inflicted

Authorities say a 4-year-old boy who gained access to an unsecured handgun in a New Jersey home died after an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.

6 years ago

DEP Commissioner Catherine McCabe has set deadlines of up to two years for the department to propose regulations. (Bernd Klutsch/Unsplash)
Politics & Policy
NJ Spotlight

Business leaders fear climate-change regulations will add to costs, stunt growth

But DEP official says new rules will be about economic development as much as environmental protection.

6 years ago

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