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Tree-clearing in Delaware County to prepare for the construction of the Mariner East 2 pipeline project. The builder, Sunoco Logistics, rejected an attempt by a township in neighboring Chester County to block the installation of a valve along the line. (Emily Cohen/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
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StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pa. AG, Delco DA launch criminal investigation into Sunoco, Energy Transfer

Energy Transfer says the probe into the construction of the Mariner East pipelines "has no legitimate basis."

7 years ago

Red Whittaker stands beside an early prototype of RadPiper, a pipe-crawling robot that will help decommission uranium enrichment facilities in Ohio and Kentucky. Whittaker has worked in robotics for four decades at Carnegie Mellon University, and he developed several robots in the 1980s that helped clean up after the Three Mile Island incident. (Amy Sisk/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
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StateImpact Pennsylvania

After TMI accident in ’79, this Carnegie Mellon team pitched a novel idea for cleanup: Use robots. It was just the beginning.

The partial meltdown at Three Mile Island left areas of the facility highly radioactive and inaccessible to humans. Along came a young group of researchers and robots.

7 years ago

An abandoned well in McKean County. (Scott Detrow/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
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StateImpact Pennsylvania

State reaches $7M agreement over 1,400 abandoned oil and gas wells

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has reached an agreement with an Alabama company over the costs of plugging 1,400 abandoned wells in the state.

7 years ago

Rocks and the bay are seen along Bay Point
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NJ Spotlight

Barriers, flood walls could help protect back bays, Army Corps says

The interim report foresees a ‘massive’ construction project costing ‘several billion dollars.’

7 years ago

Army veteran Chris Riga survived multiple blast injuries in deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq. He rearranges sticky notes on his desk to assist him in remembering tasks he has to do throughout the day at his job as patient experience coordinator at the Northampton VA Medical Center in Leeds, Mass. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
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Health

‘What does war do to an entire person?’ — VA studies veterans with blast injuries

Improved battlefield medical care in the Middle East means more troops have survived with traumatic brain injury. Researchers are trying to understand the long-term effects.

7 years ago

A billboard built by sex education advocates outside Mexico’s National Population Council office, in Mexico City, warns that ‘being a mother is not child’s play.’ (Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo)
Health

Abortions rise worldwide when U.S. cuts funding to women’s health clinics, study finds

Researchers have found that the global gag rule has actually made women in sub-Saharan Africa twice as likely to have an abortion.

7 years ago

Solar panels fill a field in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France. (Panoramic Images/Getty Images)
NPR
Science

It’s 2050 and this is how we stopped climate change

Let's imagined that we've ended global warming. Humans are no longer releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Here's what life is like in a zero-carbon world.

7 years ago

Nathanial McCray (center) leads the morning mediation at the Last Stop recovery center on Feb. 19, 2019. Meditation meetings encourage the center clients to remain mindful and present. McCray was picked to lead the meeting due to the positive example that he's set in his sobriety. A different client in good standing is picked to lead the meeting each morning. (Rachel Wisniewski for WHYY)
The Why
Health

The Last Stop’s last stand? Why a Philly addiction recovery house is fighting to stay open

The Last Stop is a recovery house that offers free rehabilitation services for those suffering from addition. But it's run into conflicts with the city. Can it survive?

Air Date: March 11, 2019

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Eli Lilly and Company, based in Indianapolis, is rolling out a half-price version of its insulin Humalog that will be sold as a generic. (Darron Cummings/AP Photo)
NPR
Health

How much difference will Eli Lilly’s half-price insulin make?

Between 2009 and 2017 the wholesale price of a single vial of Humalog, the Eli Lilly and Company-manufactured insulin Gilmer uses, nearly tripled.

7 years ago

Dr. Roberto Ieraci prepares to vaccinate a child in Rome on Feb. 23, 2018. (Alessandro Tarantino/AP Photo)
Science
The Conversation

Could a booster shot of truth help scientists fight the anti-vaccine crisis?

Imagine what might happen if the government itself had embraced an official anti-vaccine policy.

7 years ago

Bebashi Prevention Navigator Keisha Gabbidon (left) helped Tamika Warren (right) protect herself against AIDS with PrEP, a medication typically only offered to gay men. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

Philadelphia wants to get the HIV prevention pill to women most at risk

A local prevention-navigation supervisor says the drug “has not been marketed to women, to African-American women, as a priority.”

7 years ago

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This Feb. 6, 2015, file photo shows a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine on a countertop at a pediatrics clinic in Greenbrae, Calif.  The U.S. has counted more measles cases in the first two months of this year than in all of 2017 — and part of the rising threat is misinformation that makes some parents balk at a crucial vaccine, federal health officials told Congress Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. (Eric Risberg/AP Photo, File)
Health

After mumps outbreak, Temple will require new students to be vaccinated

The university is preparing, in case there are more cases of the flulike illness as students return from spring break. Current policy doesn’t require them to be vaccinated.

7 years ago

Jonah Reeder prepares a special protein shake that helps him manage a metabolic condition called phenylketonuria. (Julia Ritchey/KUER)
NPR
Science

A gulp of genetically modified bacteria might someday treat a range of illnesses

Scientists hope to genetically modify microbes from the human microbiome to treat a range of diseases, including digestive disorders.

7 years ago

The spotted lanternfly is spreading through Southeast Pennsylvania. It was spotted for the first time in the United States in Berks County. (Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture)
Science

Pa. looking for new ways to fight spotted lanternfly

Pennsylvania is looking for new ways to fight the invasive spotted lanternfly, nearly five years after it was first discovered in Berks County.

7 years ago

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Some Like it Dry

The Atacama desert in Chile is one of the most arid places on the planet – averaging less than one inch of rainfall per year! High ...

Air Date: March 8, 2019

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