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From the porch of her Palmerton farmhouse, Albertine Anthony looks out on the rolling hills of lower Carbon County. She believes the PennEast pipeline's proposed route through her 124-acre farm threatens her water supply.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Landowners brace for eminent domain loss in PennEast pipeline cases

Despite her alarm at the prospect of losing her spring water, Anthony says she’s not moving even if the pipeline is built on her land.

8 years ago

The diorama featuring gorillas will be one of two to get a fresh cleaning. This week, glaziers took the glass off the display for the first time in 80 years to allow workers to access it. (Irina Zhorov/WHYY)
Environment
Philadelphia

After more than 80 years, dioramas at the Academy of Natural Sciences get a cleaning

A team of glaziers recently lifted the glass off the gorilla display for renovations — to a round of applause from museum employees.

8 years ago

A sign marks the path of the Mariner East 1 pipeline through Chester County. (Kim Paynter/WHYY)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Chester County township adds to local challenges on Mariner East 2 siting

The new board determined that the natural gas liquids pipeline is being built well within a “pipeline impact radius.”

8 years ago

Environmental groups at a rally against Shell's Beaver County petrochemical complex in Pittsburgh. (Reid Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

DEP extends comment period for Shell’s ethane pipeline

The DEP will also hold public hearings in each of the three counties the pipeline route traverses: Washington, Allegheny, and Beaver counties.

8 years ago

Robert Brown, a cancer patient, meets with Dr. Van De Beek at the Keystone Shops. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Business
Medicine
Pennsylvania

Southeast Pennsylvania’s first medical marijuana dispensary opens

Chief medical officer of new Pennsylvania dispensary is hoping doctors will begin recommending medical marijuana for patients instead of more addictive opioids.

8 years ago

Listen 1:55
As part of a research effort in 2016, scientists from Carnegie Mellon use mobile labs to detect methane leaks from the natural gas industry. (Reid Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Environmental group: Methane pollution higher than Pa. thinks

Scientists at the Environmental Defense Fund calculated Pennsylvania’s Marcellus shale industry is emitting twice as much methane as companies are reporting.

8 years ago

PPL's Brunner Island coal-fired plant, on the west bank of Susquehanna River, plans to stop burning coal by 2029. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment

York County plant will move from coal to natural gas

The Brunner Island Power Plant had come under fire by environmentalists for air and water pollution.

8 years ago

This shows part of the PennEast Pipeline route. (PennEast Pipeline)
NewsWorks Tonight
Energy
Environment
New Jersey

Pipeline showdown: PennEast files for eminent domain against 130 landowners

By far the biggest hit is coming in Hunterdon County, a wealthy rural area of rolling hills and Delaware River-side towns.

8 years ago

Fisherman Jim Lovgren says drilling off the Jersey coast is not worth the risk. The Trump administration has proposed opening up the entire eastern seaboard to offshore drilling. (Susan Phillips/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
New Jersey

In New Jersey, opponents of offshore drilling gear up for a fight

Fishermen, environmentalists, realtors, and local business owners, descended on a hotel near Trenton voicing their unified opposition to drilling off the coast of N.J.

8 years ago

StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

13,500 Pa. homes still without safe heating source this winter

Data released Wednesday by Pennsylvania’s Public Utility Commission shows there are fewer homes without a utility heating service this winter compared to last year.

8 years ago

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Space

Planets, Planets A-Plenty

Planets have been observed for the first time orbiting stars in a distant galaxy 3.8 billion light years away. Einstein suggested that th ...

Air Date: February 14, 2018

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Ed Guinan, a professor of astrophysics and planetary sciences at Villanova University, holds two kale plants grown by his undergraduate students, one grown in Earth soil (left) an the other in a 50 percent mix with Martian soil (right). The kale attempted in 100 percent Martian soil perished.
NewsWorks Tonight
Food & Drink
Higher Education
Space

Mars bar won’t have beer, but dandelion wine is a possibility

Villanova students participating in “Red Thumbs Mars Garden Project” have been nurturing plants that might someday thrive in greenhouses 34 million miles from Earth.

8 years ago

Listen 1:58
Mariner East 2 construction site on Shepherd Road in Edgemont Township, Delaware County. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

What will Sunoco’s $12.6 million Mariner East 2 penalty be spent on?

The Department of Environmental Protection’s penalty for dozens of permit violations over the last year was among the largest ever handed out by the agency.

8 years ago

Huntley & Huntley's Midas Well pad, the first Marcellus shale gas well in the Pittsburgh suburb of Plum. Photo: Reid R. Frazier
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh suburbs decide as fracking comes near: Welcome it, or resist?

8 years ago

Sunoco/ETP's Mariner East 2 construction continues this week in West Whiteland Township, Chester County. Despite DEP ordering construction to stop, Sunoco can continue to work on welding pipes. That work is regulated by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, not DEP.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Mariner East 2 critics don’t trust DEP, Sunoco agreement to improve company’s record

8 years ago

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