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Hurricane Maria smashed poles and snarled power lines in Puerto Rico. Belinda Pastrana, a chemistry professor at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, says devastation from September’s powerful storm is making it impossible to continue her work on the island. 
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Forced out of Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria, Rutgers grad looks for new home for her lab

The devastation left by last month’s powerful storm is making it impossible to continue her work on Puerto Rico.

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Construction of the Mariner East 2 pipeline in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. Environmental groups have asked a judge to revoke the permits issued by DEP to Sunoco.
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Plaintiffs ask judge to revoke ‘illegal’ Mariner East 2 permits

8 years ago

Workers excavate coffins from a construction site in the Old City neighborhood March 9 in Philadelphia.   (Matt Slocum/AP Photo)
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Archaeologist claims hundreds of 18th-century Philly remains may have been dumped in landfill

The hundreds of remains in question would have been found between March and June at a Center City location under construction for condos.

8 years ago

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Rogue Comet Comes a-Calling

Not merely out-of-this-world, a comet from beyond our solar system came and went earlier this month. Cross-quarter-day approaches ...

Air Date: October 30, 2017

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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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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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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
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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

An oil rig rises up from green grass into a clouded blue sky
StateImpact Pennsylvania
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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

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First Person: Delaware’s tech scene

The growing presence of a tech scene here in Delaware.

8 years ago

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

8 years ago

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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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