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 Philadelphia Energy Solutions is the largest oil refining complex on the Eastern seaboard. (Nathaniel Hamilton/for NewsWorks)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Philadelphia Energy Solutions files Chapter 11, citing renewable fuels program

The largest refiner on the east coast says its operations will not be disrupted by its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings aimed at restructuring its debt.

7 years ago

Ornithologist Drew Lanham. (Courtesy of Drew Lanham)
The Pulse
Environment
Race & Ethnicity

Enjoying the wild while acknowledging its past

Ornithologist Drew Lanham says wilderness offers beauty and freedom — but also holds our painful past.

7 years ago

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Roy Christman (left) and William Kellner protested plans to build the PennEast natural gas pipeline at a FERC ‘listening session’ near Jim Thorpe, Pa. in 2016. FERC has now approved the project. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact Pa.)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

FERC approves PennEast, saying it would supply needed natural gas

7 years ago

This view of the north polar region of the Moon was obtained by NASA's Galileo's camera during the spacecraft's flyby of the Earth-Moon system on December 7 and 8, 1992.
Skytalk
Space

Forecast Calls for Dust

Continue your lunation observations: The first quarter moon is on Wednesday Jan. 24. Here’s what to look for: a. The line th ...

Air Date: January 22, 2018

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 Three Mile Island's Unit 1 reactor is still operational and provides enough power for 800,000 homes. Unit 2 partially melted down in 1979. (Joanne Cassaro/WITF)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

TMI’s future, federal policy in spotlight on Smart Talk program

7 years ago

The Delaware River flows along the Pennsylvania side at the Delaware Water Gap.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Hearings for proposed ban on fracking in the Delaware basin start this week

7 years ago

Treated oil and gas wastewater flows into a western Pennsylvania stream. (Avner Vengosh/Duke)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Study: Conventional drilling waste responsible for radioactivity spike in rivers

Treatment plants that handle conventional oil and gas waste water are causing a buildup of radioactive materials at the bottom of three Western Pennsylvania waterways.

7 years ago

Polen Run in Ryerson Station State Park, Greene County. Photo: Reid R. Frazier
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Settlement: No longwall mining beneath state park stream in Greene County

7 years ago

Protesters blocked pipeline construction equipment on the property of The Adorers of the Blood of Christ, an order of Catholic nuns, in Lancaster County in October. On Friday, the nuns asked an appeals court to allow them to make their religious objections to the pipeline in a lower court.  (MARIE CUSICK / STATEIMPACT PENNSYLVANIA)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Nuns want court to hear their religious objections to Atlantic Sunrise pipeline

7 years ago

Sita and cub, Bandhavgarh National Park, 1996; from A Wild Life (Aperture, 2017)
The Pulse

Braving the wild for the perfect shot

Wildlife photographer Nick Nichols remembers a close call with a tigress.

7 years ago

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Elk graze at dawn on reclaimed mine land in Kentucky's designated elk zone. The animals were reintroduced to the state in 1997 and have flourished. (Irina Zhorov/The Pulse)
The Pulse
Environment

Returning wild animals to wild-ish places

We reintroduce animals to their native habitat as part of an impulse to re-create “wilderness” — a place untouched by man. The result is more like the feeling of wilderness.

7 years ago

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(Courtesy of Adam Ford)
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Architecture & Design
Biology
Environment

In Banff, design helps critters safely cross the highway

A hidden world of pathways leads wild animals safely across busy roads, keeping ecosystems connected even as human use fragments and disturbs them.

7 years ago

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Tommy Fisk cuts down a black oak outside Eminence, Missouri on Dec. 14, 2017
The Pulse
Environment

Did logging help reclaim Missouri wilderness?

Since the 1950s, a timber company has used conservation-driven logging to balance productive use and wild forests.

7 years ago

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In this 1918 photo made available by the Library of Congress, volunteer nurses from the American Red Cross tend to influenza patients in the Oakland Municipal Auditorium, used as a temporary hospital. (Edward A.
Medicine

Century after pandemic, science takes its best shot at flu

There's no way to predict what strain of the shape-shifting flu virus could trigger another pandemic or, given modern medical tools, how bad it might be.

7 years ago

StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

DEP fines natural gas company $1.7M for drilling violations

7 years ago

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