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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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The spotted lanternfly is spreading through Southeast Pennsylvania. It was spotted for the first time in the United States in Berks County. (Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture)
Economy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Invasive insect spreads beyond Pennsylvania farms and orchards to backyards

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will send $17.5 million in emergency funds to Pennsylvania to prevent the spotted lanternfly from spreading further.

8 years ago

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Building in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Media

EPA restores funding to news outlet covering Chesapeake Bay

The EPA agreed to restore $325,000 in funding to the Bay Journal, a print and online news outlet covering environmental issues related to the Chesapeake Bay.

8 years ago

A natural gas power plant under construction in Bradford County, Pa. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Proposed natural gas power plant in Berks County gets set of permits from DEP

The Department of Environmental Protection has OK’d several permits for a proposed natural gas power plant in Berks County.

8 years ago

Ryan Zinke in East Bethlehem Township, Washington County. (Reid Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
NewsWorks Tonight
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Zinke comes to Pa. to talk abandoned mine cleanup

Ryan Zinke, President Trump’s Interior Secretary, came to Western Pennsylvania to tout the federal government’s abandoned mine cleanup program. It was an appropriate setting.

8 years ago

Stained glass windows depicting biologist Alexander Fleming in the church of St James, in London. (Wikimedia Commons)
The Pulse

Science and Religion

What happens when a Buddhist environmentalist, a Muslim astronomer … a rabbi and a priest walk into our studio? On this episode, we exp ...

Air Date: March 2, 2018

Listen 49:20
(U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Technology

How this reporter’s #NoDAPL photo wound up in the Russia investigations

Never did I imagine a photo I took would be used by Russian trolls to try to manipulate the pipeline debate.

8 years ago

Daniel Raimi, author of the newly released book
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Books
Energy
Environment

Author answers hot-button questions on fracking, including climate impact

As Pennsylvania’s gas boom helps propel the United States away from coal-fired power, one energy researcher says the impact on climate change will be a wash.

8 years ago

This image provided by the National Science Foundation shows a rendering of how the first stars in the universe might have looked. Scientists have detected a signal from 180 million years after the Big Bang when the earliest stars began glowing. The findings were published on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018 in the journal Nature. (N.R.Fuller/National Science Foundation via AP)
Space

Astronomers glimpse cosmic dawn, when the stars switched on

The signal showed unexpectedly cold temperatures and an unusually pronounced wave.

8 years ago

A backhoe clears land for construction of the Mariner East 2 pipeline in Delaware County in early 2017. (Emily Cohen/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Environmental groups seek injunction to halt Mariner East 2 pipeline construction

Several environmental groups have asked the Commonwealth Court for an injunction to halt Sunoco/Energy Transfer Partners Mariner East 2 pipeline construction.

8 years ago


The tick Haemaphysalis longicornis. (Tadhgh Rainey)
NPR
Biology
International
New Jersey

Asian ticks (mysteriously) turned up on a New Jersey sheep

Investigators found hundreds on the sheep and collected nearly a thousand more from the one-acre paddock.

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
Space

Exit Earth

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

Air Date: February 26, 2018

Listen 49:26
This image was taken with Opportunity's navigation camera of a large dune on the way to Victoria
Skytalk
Space

Rover Still Rovin’

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has returned images that clearly show thick layers of water ice just beneath the surface and ext ...

Air Date: February 26, 2018

Listen 05:08
Hibernating toads are making their annual leap to breeding grounds — a bit ahead of schedule (WHYY, file)
Environment
New Jersey
Pennsylvania

Early spring peepers might be trouble for rest of food chain

Recent unseasonably warm weather has lured some frogs out of hibernation early. Herpetologists worry what that might mean for them — and other animals.

8 years ago

Listen 2:14
A sign protesting the proposed PennEast Pipeline route in Carbon County, Pa. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

FERC order effectively denies appeals of PennEast approval, critics say

Federal regulators have effectively denied a request to reconsider their approval of the planned PennEast Pipeline, the agency’s critics say.

8 years ago

This photo provided by the US Fish and Wildlife Service shows a red knot in Mispillion Harbor, Delaware.  (Gregory Breese, USFWS/AP Photo)
Delaware
Environment

Delaware Bay’s crabs contributing to dip in already threatened red knot population

The red knots stop for nourishment along the Delaware Bay on their annual journey from Chile to the Arctic.

8 years ago

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