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After hitting a record low last year, natural gas impact fee revenue is expected to rise this year.  (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Natural gas impact fee revenue expected to rise this year in Pa.

Pennsylvania is expected to bring in $46.1 million more this year from natural gas impact fees.

7 years ago

President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Trump’s speech light on energy specifics. Here’s the lowdown behind mentions of coal, exports.

While the president mentioned energy in his first State of the Union speech Tuesday night, he offered few details about his energy priorities.

7 years ago

Philadelphia Energy Solutions' Point Breeze refinery along the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. (Kellie McGinn/Philadelphia Energy Solutions)
PlanPhilly
Energy
Environment
Philadelphia

With South Philadelphia refinery in bankruptcy proceedings, neighbors see an opportunity for cleaner air

The refinery is Philadelphia’s single largest generator of particulate emission air pollution, according to city data.

7 years ago

Governor Tom Wolf (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Environmentalists want more action from Tom Wolf. More talk would be nice, too

Many environmentalists say his record, so far, has been disappointing.

7 years ago

Skytalk
Space

Countdown to the Super Bowl, and the Super Moon!

On Wednesday, January 31st, don’t miss the Super Blue Blood Total Lunar Eclipse Moon! This lunar event means that the second full m ...

Air Date: January 29, 2018

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Gov. Tom Wolf doesn't remember a campaign pledge he made to join a regional effort to cap carbon emissions. (Tom Downing/WITF)
Environment

Gov. Wolf doesn’t recall campaign pledge to join climate initiative

Gov. Wolf said Friday he never made a campaign pledge to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative —a market-based effort among northeastern states to limit carbon emissions

7 years ago

StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Coal company, watershed group reach settlement over new mine

A proposed coal mine is moving forward in southwestern Pennsylvania after its operator reached a settlement with an environmental group.

7 years ago

Close-up of brown bat with nose fungus. (Ryan von Linden/New York Department of Environmental Conservation)
Allegheny Front
NewsWorks Tonight
Environment
Pennsylvania

UV light could be a ray of hope for bats with white-nose syndrome

Scientists might have found a new way to combat white-nose syndrome, a disease caused by a fungus killing millions of bats in the U.S. and Canada.

7 years ago

On Jan. 2, the Pennsylvania environmental protection department suspended work related to permits it issued for the Mariner East 2 pipeline. This photo shows a work area off Fallbrook Lane in Glen Mills, near Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Mariner East 2: Texts raise questions about Wolf administration role in permitting process

“I don’t know if there’s a smoking gun here but there sure is a lot of smoke,” said Eric Friedman, a Delaware County landowner.

7 years ago

Cayleigh Dorsey was the youngest to stand by the podium at the DRBC hearing. She’s one year old, and was held by her grandmother Alicia Dorsey, from South Philadelphia.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Delaware River Basin fracking ban hearings center on environment, economy

7 years ago

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

Feds cite Sunoco for Mariner East 2 violation during construction in Ohio

7 years ago

(Courtesy of HoJun Yu)
The Pulse

Facing her fears to keep playing music

Chrissy Tashijan of the band Thin Lips had paralyzing agoraphobia. Music prevented her world from getting smaller and smaller.

7 years ago

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The pied butcherbird in Australia inspired composer Hollis Taylor, who says we can consider its birdsong to be music. Photo from <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/patrick_k59/14640105234/in/photolist-oiGneu-93tjUr-5a33c6-XU9v56-6sGgM7-og5p6i-mDuTfx-92PT2g-JEwVq-oeeNa7-j9dWU-bnSQTQ-q1jgQL-dTcC4c-92T6cS-JvB2q-2AVt7C-92PVWv-Ap8t7L-J6HNbv-ojpk4N-92PUp6-oZuXz5-bmF52m-4t7h4A-9rrDdz-Ap8nkS-j9dGL-pYqP4y-omemNA-pFVL7R-7yf2Mt-q7NcnS-paSHkb-8Fh5ZZ-ApfB3F-bDfrCQ-dqqZFv-xq3rba-P3evGT-Vum4j7-6PkSYh-4fEwnL-2AR4xD-dqr7oC-XcYiHE-XsNsWn-yEuexH-vRXfLq-BnuW3b' target='_blank' rel='noopener'> Flickr user patrickkavanagh</a>.
The Pulse
Biology
Music

A biological debate: is birdsong music?

Biologists and musicians are still wondering a question that goes back more than a century.

7 years ago

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Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Dunn and Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Patrick McDonnell answered questions at a House hearing Thursday. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Lawmakers question agencies’ use of special funds for environmental programs

Rep. Curtis Sonney (R- Erie) said he’d like more transparency from DEP and DCNR about how the special fund money is being committed.

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

Delaware County Council looks into risk assessment of Mariner East 2 pipeline

7 years ago

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