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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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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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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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A doctor holds a stethoscope on a pregnant person's belly.
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

Shark fin soup with crab cream. (Wikimedia Commons)
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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A pile of shark fins. (Courtesy of Oceana/Ricardo Roberto Fernandez Martinez)
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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Farmers pick crops at Soul Fire Farm in New York state.
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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Al Gore, grey suit, at a podium, black background
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Al Gore: We’re getting close to bipartisan action on climate

Al Gore says he’s optimistic the U.S. will break its political standoff over climate change, and that the U.S. is “not that far” from a bipartisan consensus on climate change.

8 years ago

Delaware Gov. John Carney attends ribbon-cutting ceremony for new Croda chemical manufacturing plant in New Castle (Zoe Read/WHYY)
Delaware
Economic Development
Energy
Environment

Ribbon-cutting for first-of-its-kind chemical manufacturer in Delaware

Chemical company, Croda, said its Delaware plant can now make a key chemical bonding agent from 100 percent renewable resources.

8 years ago

A half dozen monkeys sit on a stony shore watching a boat come in
Environment
Infrastructure
National

After hurricane hits 'Island of Monkeys,' Penn researcher helps macaques' minders

An island colony of wild rhesus macaque monkeys — the oldest primate research site in the world — suffered major storm damage, but no deaths.

8 years ago

Al Gore at the Climate Reality Workshop in PIttsburgh, Pa. October 17, 2017 (Reid R. Frazier / StateImpact)
StateImpact
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Gore tells climate activists: ‘We’re going to win this’

Gore’s presentation was part of his Climate Reality Project, which the former vice president and Nobel laureate founded 10 years ago.

8 years ago

Protesters blocked equipment and sang hymns for about half an hour before police asked them to leave. Nearly 30 people were charged with defiant trespassing.
StateImpact
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
Public Spaces

Nearly 30 arrested protesting Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline

Nearly 30 people were arrested and charged with defiant trespassing Monday after blocking construction equipment for the Atlantic Sunrise natural gas pipeline in Lancaster Co.

8 years ago

Image courtesy of the Franklin Institute.
Skytalk
History
Space

Out-of-this-world show

This Saturday marks the 94th anniversary of the first public planetarium show given at the German model for The Franklin Institute, the D ...

Air Date: October 16, 2017

Listen 06:04
A scientist in a white lab coat works in a Spark Therapeutics lab.
Biology
Medicine
Philadelphia

FDA panel backs gene therapy from Philly's Spark Therapeutics

The therapy can help children with a rare genetic eye disorder see better. It comes after two other recent significant developments in gene therapy.

8 years ago

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A backhoe digs a path for a pipeline in Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Water problems persist along Mariner East pipeline route despite court intervention

Water impacts continue at numerous Pennsylvania sites where Sunoco is building the Mariner East 2 pipeline two months after a court-brokered agreement.

8 years ago

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