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StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

13,500 Pa. homes still without safe heating source this winter

Data released Wednesday by Pennsylvania’s Public Utility Commission shows there are fewer homes without a utility heating service this winter compared to last year.

7 years ago

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Space

Planets, Planets A-Plenty

Planets have been observed for the first time orbiting stars in a distant galaxy 3.8 billion light years away. Einstein suggested that th ...

Air Date: February 14, 2018

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Ed Guinan, a professor of astrophysics and planetary sciences at Villanova University, holds two kale plants grown by his undergraduate students, one grown in Earth soil (left) an the other in a 50 percent mix with Martian soil (right). The kale attempted in 100 percent Martian soil perished.
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Mars bar won’t have beer, but dandelion wine is a possibility

Villanova students participating in “Red Thumbs Mars Garden Project” have been nurturing plants that might someday thrive in greenhouses 34 million miles from Earth.

7 years ago

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Mariner East 2 construction site on Shepherd Road in Edgemont Township, Delaware County. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

What will Sunoco’s $12.6 million Mariner East 2 penalty be spent on?

The Department of Environmental Protection’s penalty for dozens of permit violations over the last year was among the largest ever handed out by the agency.

7 years ago

Huntley & Huntley's Midas Well pad, the first Marcellus shale gas well in the Pittsburgh suburb of Plum. Photo: Reid R. Frazier
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh suburbs decide as fracking comes near: Welcome it, or resist?

7 years ago

Sunoco/ETP's Mariner East 2 construction continues this week in West Whiteland Township, Chester County. Despite DEP ordering construction to stop, Sunoco can continue to work on welding pipes. That work is regulated by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, not DEP.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Mariner East 2 critics don’t trust DEP, Sunoco agreement to improve company’s record

7 years ago

JON HURDLE / STATEIMPACT PA Construction of Mariner East 2 in West Cornwall Township, Lebanon County.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Sunoco to resume work, pay $12.6 million for Mariner East 2 pipeline violations

7 years ago

A landowner rips up an offer of compensation from PennEast at a rally February 2, 2018.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

PennEast pipeline seeks eminent domain, plus U.S. marshals to protect workers

7 years ago

(The Nature Conservancy)
Environment

Conservationists acquire 477 acres for Cape May Wildlife Refuge

The largest privately owned piece of land remaining on the Cape May Peninsula has been added to the Cape May Wildlife Refuge after more than 10 years of negotiations.

7 years ago

Environmentalists gather on Asbury Park's boardwalk to speak out against the Trump administration plan for expanded offshore drilling. (Phil Gregory/WHYY)
Energy
Environment
New Jersey

N.J. environmental groups band together to oppose expanded offshore drilling

The possibility of a spill is too great a risk, say environmentalist who fear jeopardizing marine life and New Jersey's tourism industry.

7 years ago

The Mariner East 2 pipeline has officially broken ground in the Delaware County town of Aston. The beginning stages of the pipeline includes clear cutting trees and preparing makeshift roads for the heavy machinery to traverse. (Emily Cohen for StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Sunoco appeals DEP’s stop work order

Sunoco is appealing the Department of Environmental Protection’s January 3 order to halt construction on the Mariner East 2 natural gas liquids pipeline.

7 years ago

A Falcon 9 SpaceX heavy rocket stands ready for launch on pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, Feb. 5, 2018. The Falcon Heavy scheduled to launch Tuesday afternoon, has three first-stage boosters, strapped together with 27 engines in all. (Terry Renna/AP Photo)
Space

SpaceX’s big new rocket blasts off with sports car on top

SpaceX's big new rocket blasted off Tuesday on its first test flight, carrying a red sports car aiming for an endless road trip past Mars.

7 years ago

The proposed route of the PennEast pipeline stretches from upper Luzerne County, Pa. to Mercer County, near Trenton, New Jersey (Courtesy of PennEast Pipeline Company)
Energy
Environment
New Jersey

AG rejects PennEast offers for easements on protected lands

Pipeline company says it will begin eminent domain actions if landowners hold out after deadline.

7 years ago

A broken pipe that leaks water in all directions.
Environment
Infrastructure
New Jersey

Conservation could curb future N.J. water demands

A Rutgers University study says New Jersey’s water needs could actually diminish, despite population growth, if citizens and utility systems invest in conservation.

7 years ago

A landowner rips up an offer of compensation from PennEast at a rally February 2, 2018. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
New Jersey
Pennsylvania

Landowners tear up PennEast leases as New Jersey shelves permit application

They will not agree to the company’s plans to build the pipeline on their land — at the price offered, or in some cases at any price.

7 years ago

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