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In this June 2, 2017 file photo, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt speaks in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo, file)
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Watchdog to probe EPA chief’s purchase of soundproof booth

A government watchdog will examine whether the head of the EPA misused taxpayer money by purchasing a soundproof booth for making private phone calls from his office.

8 years ago

Skytalk
Space

Geminid Meteor Shower

The Geminid meteor shower peaks Wednesday and Thursday this week with upwards of 100 meteors per hour. The moon is a very thin wani ...

Air Date: December 12, 2017

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A Cabot Oil & Gas drill rig nestled into the landscape in Kingsley, Pa.  (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
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Gas driller: Make Dimock homeowner pay for disparaging us

Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. claims Dimock resident Ray Kemble and his former lawyers tried to extort the company through a frivolous federal lawsuit.

8 years ago

A natural gas well pad in Washington County, Pa.  Dec. 1, 2017. (Amy Sisk/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
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Lawmakers consider breaks for oil, gas in tax bills

As lawmakers hash out differences between the tax bills in front of Congress, they must decide whether to keep a proposed tax break for oil and gas investors.

8 years ago

The Elrama Power Plant near Pittsburgh was closed in 2012. Photo: Reid R. Frazier
StateImpact Pennsylvania
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Trump administration coal plan could have big impact on Pennsylvania

8 years ago

Roz Gitt from Warwick, New York, protests in front of the construction site for the new CPV natural gas plant in Wawayanda. The plant would run on Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale gas.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
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Pennsylvania

New York’s heralded fracking ban isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

8 years ago

FILE: Governor Tom Wolf's deputy chief of staff Yesenia Bane, speaking at natural gas industry conference in 2016.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
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Pennsylvania

Ethics complaint filed against Wolf aide

8 years ago

Chantal Pronteau has been a Kitasoo/Xai'xais Coastal Guardian Watchman since 2015. She patrols about 1,500 square miles of inlets on the Canadian coast. (Irina Zhorov/WHYY)
The Pulse
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Watching over the land in Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest

First Nations communities in British Columbia are training indigenous people to manage local natural resources.

8 years ago

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Delaware archaeologists find groundbreaking human remains

Eleven 17th century remains have been found in Rehoboth.

8 years ago

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A pile of waste coal sits abandoned in Fredericktown. Photo: Reid Frazier
StateImpact Pennsylvania
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Pennsylvania

DEP Eyes New Land For Abandoned Mine Cleanup

8 years ago

(WHYY/Mark Eichman)
Delaware
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Delaware's ecological task force is attempting to eliminate non-native and invasive plant species.

The snowy white Bradford Pear, the vibrant Burning Bush, the ascending English Ivy—they may be eye-catching, but they’re destroying the ecosystem.

8 years ago

Princeton scientists (from left) Lyman Page, David Spergel and Norman Jarosik
NewsWorks Tonight
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Princeton scientists win $3 million for early pictures of the universe

The research uses billion-year-old radiation to confirm the universe's age and how quickly it expanded after the Big Bang.

8 years ago

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SUSAN PHILLIPS / STATEIMPACT A Cabot Oil and Gas well site in Susquehanna County.
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Cabot Oil and Gas to pay $99,000 for air quality violations in Susquehanna County

8 years ago

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Earliest Sunset

Sunset comes at 4:35pm this week, then gradually later and later, though it won’t be until early January before we really start to ...

Air Date: December 4, 2017

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3d rendering of human brain on technology background represent artificial intelligence and cyber space concept
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‘The Fear Factor,’ altruism and psychopathy

Guest: Abigail Marsh An heroic act by a stranger during car accident started ...

Air Date: December 4, 2017

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