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People now use the Delaware for recreation, like these visitors to Spruce Street Harbor Park. Prior to the Clean Water Act, the Delaware River was so polluted no one would have considered basking so close to it. But the regulation has not been updated for decades, and scientists say hidden dangers to fish and wildlife still exist. (Brandon Eastwood for WHYY)
The Why
Environment
Philadelphia

Keeping the river rolling: How the Clean Water Act helped revive the Delaware

The Clean Water Act helped turn the Delaware River and its waterfront into a place many people enjoy today. But can the river be protected from future pollution?

Air Date: January 30, 2019

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People bundled up against the cold in downtown Chicago on Sunday. Forecasters warned of dangerous weather conditions across a swath of the U.S. over the next several days. (Nam Y. Huh/AP Photo)
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Environment
Public Safety

‘Life-threatening arctic blast’ surges into Midwest, barreling toward Eastern U.S.

Record-shattering cold, heavy snow and howling winds are descending on a broad swath of the U.S., the National Weather Service says.

7 years ago

The Milky Way's Galactic Center in the night sky above the Paranal Observatory (the laser creates a guide-star for the telescope). ESO/Y. Beletsky
Skytalk
Space

Strolling Our Galactic Neighborhood

Our Milky Way is one of some forty galaxies that comprise what is known as our “local group.” Two of our nearest galact ...

Air Date: January 29, 2019

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 The front of the former Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove and present day Horsham Air Guard Station. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Environment
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
NJ Spotlight

N.J. landfill agrees to accept PFAS-contaminated soil from Pa. military base

Some New Jersey environmental groups oppose the planned dumping of material from the former Willow Grove Naval Air Station.

7 years ago

Toyota demonstrates its
NPR
Public Safety
Transportation

A safety feature by any other name can really be confusing, AAA finds

AAA examined 34 vehicle brands for model year 2018 and found a confusing morass of terms for driver assistance systems.

7 years ago

Annie Dookhan, (center), pictured with her family in a Boston courtroom Nov. 22, 2013, after she pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence. Dookhan was a state chemist. (David L. Ryan/AP/The Boston Globe)
Speak Easy
Criminal Justice
Law
The Conversation

How corruption in forensic science is harming the criminal justice system

There are plenty of reasons for forensic misconduct. But there is also the reality that many crime labs lack proper oversight.

7 years ago

This Sept. 6, 2012, file photo, shows the Amazon logo. A new study says Amazon’s facial-detection technology often misidentifies women, particularly those with darker skin. (Reed Saxon/AP Photo, File)
Gender
Race & Ethnicity
Technology

Researchers say Amazon face-detection technology shows bias

Facial-detection technology that Amazon is marketing to law enforcement often misidentifies women with darker skin, researchers from MIT and the University of Toronto say.

7 years ago

wind farm offshore
Down the Shore
Energy
New Jersey
Technology

Wind farm surveying begins off N.J. coast

The surveying off the coast of Atlantic and Cape May counties is the first phase of the "Ocean Wind Project" situated 15 miles east of Atlantic City.

7 years ago

The Pulse
Behavioral Health
Biology
Public Health

In Science We Trust

From anti-vaxxers to climate change deniers and even flat-Earthers, there’s a lot of mistrust in science. But how did we get here in th ...

Air Date: January 25, 2019

Listen 48:12
Salem Nuclear Power Plant as seen from the Blackbird Creek. (Brian Drouin/WHYY)
Energy
Environment

New Jersey looks to rejoin RGGI to tackle greenhouse gas emissions

The state Department of Environmental Protection is having an open hearing on two proposals that would allow New Jersey to rejoin the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

7 years ago

Listen 1:44
A former GMO researcher explains how class plays into flawed perceptions of genetically engineered crops. (Image courtesy of Bigstock)
The Pulse
Environment
Income Inequality
International
Public Health
Technology

Why opposition to GMOs is a First World privilege

How public mistrust in GMOs destroyed one scientist's dream of helping farmers in developing countries produce sturdier, higher-yield crops.

7 years ago

Listen 06:49
The Horsham Air Guard Station in Bucks County, Pa. where the use of PFAS chemicals in firefighting foam has been linked with contamination of local water supplies. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pa. might set maximum limits on a toxic chemical in drinking water. Some ask: What’s there to decide?

Activists want a new panel to regulate the chemicals in the absence of federal standards.

7 years ago

An iceberg melts in Kulusuk Bay, eastern Greenland, in this July 17, 2007, file photo.  The melting of the Greenland ice cap and its effect on the area around Greenland is one of the more immediate effects of climate change. (AP Photo/John McConnico, File)
Radio Times
Environment
Politics

Climate change is real…now what?

Today, we'll talk about how an increasing number of Americans are worried about climate change, as well as a couple of small changes being proposed to stem it.

Air Date: January 24, 2019 10:00 am

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A group of year old mussels that were grown in the team's lab inside the Philadelphia Water Works Mussel Hatchery. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Environment
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Freshwater mussel hatchery at Bartram’s Gardens aims to provide natural filter for Pa. rivers, streams

Pennvest will invest $7.9 million into the mid-Atlantic hatchery.

7 years ago

In this July 25, 2018 photo US EPAs Peter Grevatt, Director of the Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water and Cosmo Servidio, Regional Administrator for the Mid-Atlantic Region, listen to members of the public comment during a PFAS Community Stakeholder Meeting, on in Horsham, Pa. In Horsham and surrounding towns in eastern Pennsylvania, and at other sites around the United States, the foams once used routinely in firefighting training at military bases contained per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. EPA testing between 2013 and 2015 found significant amounts of PFAS in public water supplies in 33 U.S. states. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Environment
Public Health
StateImpact Pennsylvania

New Jersey proposes PFAS regulations for groundwater; EPA regulations delayed by shutdown

New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection has taken a step toward cleaning up water contamination from an unregulated class of perfluorinated chemicals known as PFAs

7 years ago

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