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StateImpact Pennsylvania
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Environment
Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania’s biggest environmental group is getting a new CEO

Jacquelyn Bonomo is succeeding Larry Schweiger as the leader of PennFuture. Schweiger is retiring.

8 years ago

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StateImpact Pennsylvania
Economic Development
Food & Drink
International

Costa Rica banks on low-carbon coffee

The low-carbon coffee that Costa Rica is pushing is part of an overall plan by the country to become the first carbon neutral nation.

8 years ago

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StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania’s environmental rights amendment is back from the dead

John Dernbach, director of the Environmental Law and Sustainability Center at Widener University sat down with StateImpact to discuss.

8 years ago

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StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

PUC’s West Goshen ruling cheers advocates for local control over pipelines

The commission voted unanimously on Thursday to uphold a judge’s ruling that prevented Sunoco from building the valve and associated equipment on private land.

8 years ago

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StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Marcellus Shale boom cuts costs for Pennsylvania ratepayers

Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale gas boom has significantly cut energy costs for consumers across the state, according to a new study released Friday.

8 years ago

First
Delaware
Economic Development
Technology

First Person: Delaware’s tech scene

The growing presence of a tech scene here in Delaware.

8 years ago

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The Pulse
Behavioral Health
Biology
National

Horror movie sounds evoke primal fear

Sound designers have a bag of acoustic “scares” to frighten and unnerve an audience.

8 years ago

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Environment
New Jersey

NRDC: Global warming making heatwaves hotter and more common

If it seems as if summers are getting hotter, they are — at least from the perspective of more days when people are exposed to extreme ...

8 years ago

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StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Future in limbo for coal ash site

A Greene County coal ash landfill won’t be receiving any more coal waste until December, at the earliest.

8 years ago

A Norfolk Southern freight train hauling coal makes it way through downtown Pittsburgh Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017.
StateImpact
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

PJM says plan to subsidize coal, nukes, ‘not workable’

8 years ago

Skytalk
Space

Pluto: The non-ringed non-planet

We begin with the story of Spitz Laboratories, based in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. In the 1960s, the space race kicked off a nationwide s ...

Air Date: October 23, 2017

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Medicine
National
Race & Ethnicity

Black women at higher risk for pregnancy-related heart failure, prolonged recovery

A new study suggests that African-American women are more likely to suffer from Peripartum Cardiomyopathy and are more likely to worsen before getting better.

8 years ago

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The Pulse
Biology
Environment
Medicine

Politics on Your Plate

What we eat and how we feed ourselves is inherently cultural and political in nature.

Air Date: October 20, 2017

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The Pulse
Biology
Food & Drink

From soup on the table to a bill in congress: a look inside the shark fin debate

Shark fin is the main ingredient in a much-prized soup. Fishermen commonly cut off the fins and throw the rest of the shark overboard to drown.

8 years ago

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The Pulse
Environment
Food & Drink
Race & Ethnicity

Black farmers work to cultivate diversity

Farming is the second-whitest job in the United States.

8 years ago

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