NewsWorks Tonight, March 7, 2018
Listen 18:45We have updates on the aftermath of today’s snowstorm. Scientists are concerned about road salt raising the salinity of freshwater streams and sources of drinking water. Pennsylvania’s Public Utility Commission shuts down the Mariner East One pipeline that runs through Delaware and Chester Counties. Author Alex Myers researches his ancestor, a woman who fought in the Revolutionary War. Students at a North Philadelphia elementary school take a field trip to see “Black Panther.”
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