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In this April 23, 2010 photo, a Chesapeake Energy natural gas well site is seen near Burlington, Pa., in Bradford County. (Ralph Wilson/AP Photo)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
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Pennsylvania

StateImpact Pennsylvania invites public to forum in Towanda on natural gas royalties

Join StateImpact Pennsylvania for an educational forum to learn how other states handle natural gas royalty payments and what’s being done about the controversy.

8 years ago

A smoke stack at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

PES likely to resolve growing objections to its bankruptcy plan, analysts say

Philadelphia Energy Solutions is meeting more resistance to its plan to reorganize while in Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

8 years ago

This photo made available by NASA shows Hurricane Harvey over Texas on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, seen from the International Space Station. (Jack Fischer/NASA via AP)
Radio Times
Environment
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Exit Earth

Guests: Michio Kaku Physicist and futurist MICHIO KAKU theorizes ...

Air Date: March 21, 2018 10:00 am

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From left to right: Melissa DiBernadino, Goshen United for Public Safety, Rebecca Britton, Uwchlan Safety Coalition, and Andrew Williams, Environmental Defense Fund, testified Tuesday at a joint senate hearing on pipeline safety.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Mariner East pipeline problems take center stage at state Senate hearing

8 years ago

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Space

Serious Signs of Water on Ceres

The Dwarf planet Ceres is showing signs of cryoactivity and…water(ice)! Sodium carbonate, a mineral seen by the Dawn spacecraft in ...

Air Date: March 20, 2018

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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

State says PES owes $3.8 billion in back taxes, urges court hold up bankruptcy plan

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro is urging a federal bankruptcy court to withhold approval of a bankruptcy petition by Philadelphia Energy Solutions

8 years ago

A large offshore drilling rig located off of Rehoboth Beach for test borings and underwater surveys for the sewage outfall pipe. (Chuck Snyder for Newsworks)
Energy
Environment

Back-door ban: States fight Trump drill plan with local bans

Some coastal states opposed to President Donald Trump's plan to allow oil and gas drilling off most of the nation's coastline are fighting back with proposed state laws design

8 years ago

JON HURDLE / STATEIMPACT PA Construction of Mariner East 2 in West Cornwall Township, Lebanon County.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Sunoco spills drilling fluid into Lebanon County creek for third time

8 years ago

Sunset over Lago de Atitlán in Guatemala
Speak Easy

An elegy for Stephen Hawking and the worthy pursuit of wonder

A few months ago, I went paragliding with my friend Christian above Lago de Atitlán in Guatemala. He was ...

8 years ago

A trolley in West Philadelphia crosses potholes on a bumpy street. (Malcolm Burnley for WHYY)
The Pulse
Infrastructure
Streets & Roads

Is nanotech the new pothole killer?

Scientists are adding tiny particles of clay, wool and other materials to asphalt — to create more durable pavement.

8 years ago

Companies are making it harder for you to repair your own appliances, like this iPhone X, and a growing repair movement is trying to change that.
The Pulse
Economy
Innovation
Technology

It’s harder to fix our stuff these days. Maybe that’s a problem.

When a high-tech appliance breaks, some manufacturers discourage people from doing their own repairs. But a growing “right to repair” movement wants to change that.

8 years ago

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This picture shows the different kinds of devices that use OLED displays (Universal Display Corporation)
Business
Higher Education
Technology

How Princeton research from the ’90s made it to the new iPhone

It’s part of an an increasing trend of universities partnering with companies to turn research into new patents and products.

8 years ago

Hawking, shown in Chicago in 1986, was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a post once held by Sir Isaac Newton.
NPR

Stephen Hawking, who awed both scientists and the public, dies

8 years ago

Philadelphia Energy Solutions, the largest refiner on the East Coast, was relieved of some of its obligations to buy renewable fuel credits in an agreement with the EPA. (Peter DeCarlo)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

EPA deal gives PES, in bankruptcy, some relief from renewable fuel credits

Philadelphia Energy Solutions reached an agreement with the federal government to reduce its liability for buying renewable fuel credits.

8 years ago

Bob Hoffman of Edgmont Township, Delaware County, says he's OK with a water 'buffalo' that Sunoco installed outside his home. It's to ensure a supply of clean water in case his private well is disrupted by drilling for the Mariner East pipelines. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

On pipeline route, some well owners OK with Sunoco’s water; others are wary

The temporary water supply is being provided to owners of private water wells along the pipeline route because of concerns that water could turn cloudy or become contaminated

8 years ago

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