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Health & Science

Advocates for Pennsylvania mineral owners are criticizing a comment by one of Gov. Wolf's senior aides, who says complaints over royalty payments have subsided. (Joe Ulrich/ WITF)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

‘People are furious’: Wolf aide criticized after downplaying royalty problems

Advocates for Pennsylvania landowners are challenging a statement made recently by one of Governor Tom Wolf’s top aides, after saying complaints over gas royalties subsided.

8 years ago

Activists in Lancaster County offered pipeline workers a pancake breakfast Friday morning, but the invitation was declined. (Marie Cusick / StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Activists offer pancakes to pipeline workers, are rebuffed

Activists set up a pancake breakfast picnic on an Amish farm in Conestoga adjacent to a construction site and invited the pipeline workers to share a meal.

8 years ago

A natural gas power plant in Masontown, Pa. (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
NewsWorks Tonight
Science

Natural gas plant proposed for coal-rich Greene County

A New York company is planning to build a natural gas plant in Pennsylvania’s biggest coal county.

8 years ago

In this June 2, 2017 file photo, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt speaks in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo, file)
Science

EPA bars scientists with agency funding from advisory boards

The Environmental Protection Agency's Administrator, Scott Pruitt, has issued a new policy restricting who can serve on the agency's advisory boards.

8 years ago

The Pulse
Science

Abandoned

What happens when we step away from people and places?

Air Date: November 3, 2017

Listen 48:50
Nancy Quinn stands in front of the bakery she works at in Philadelphia's Northern Liberties neighborhood. (Joel Wolfram/for WHYY)
Health

ACA enrollees confused by letters estimating higher rate hikes than expected

Many enrollees received letters from their insurance company noting increased premiums for 2018 but they didn't include updated subsidy amounts.

8 years ago

José, Nelly and Gloria Guity in the cafeteria of Miami Edison Senior High School the day before Irma hit Miami. (Kate Stein/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

During Irma, some Miami evacuees felt left behind in their own city

As the hurricane threatened, Miami-Dade County opened more than 40 shelters for people who needed a safe place to go. Some low-income, vulnerable people needed more support.

8 years ago

Listen 4:48
Coal Hill, a pile of coal on the outskirts of Trevorton, in Central Pennsylvania, is a testament to the old industry here and a reminder that companies didn't clean up when they finished mining. (Irina Zhorov/WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

New ideas for abandoned mine lands

A bill aims to address abandoned mine lands with a focus on economic development. Proponents see it as a way to imagine a more sustainable future for old coal country.

8 years ago

Listen 8:06
 The Delaware Water Gap on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River in Pahaquarry Township. (Warren Westura/AP Photo, file)
Science

N.J. DEP sets nation’s strictest limit on chemical in drinking water

PFOA has been linked to cancer, high cholesterol, and developmental problems in young children

8 years ago

Delaware Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro speaks at an event launching the 2018 ACA enrollment. (Zoë Read/WHYY)
Health

Delaware launches 'challenging' ACA enrollment

With an enrollment period that’s been cut in half and calls from the GOP to end Obamacare, the call for enrollment in the ACA has been more pressing than ever.

8 years ago

Workers in an AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals Research lab in Boston. (photo courtesy AstraZeneca)
Delaware Business Now
Science

AstraZeneca gets fast-track FDA approval process for promising blood cancer drug

AstraZeneca gets FDA approval to move forward with Calquence (acalabrutinib), a drug used to fight an aggressive form of blood cancer.

8 years ago

A registered nurse treats an inmate at San Quentin State Prison
Health

Time in maximum security prisons helps nurses learn non-biased, compassionate care

Nursing students go through several rotations, and, at Jefferson College of Nursing in Philadelphia, that can include time at a maximum security prison.

8 years ago

Hurricane Maria smashed poles and snarled power lines in Puerto Rico. Belinda Pastrana, a chemistry professor at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, says devastation from September’s powerful storm is making it impossible to continue her work on the island. 
Science

Forced out of Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria, Rutgers grad looks for new home for her lab

The devastation left by last month’s powerful storm is making it impossible to continue her work on Puerto Rico.

8 years ago

Listen 0:00
Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel is shown speaking at the American Medical Association's annual conference in 2009.
Speak Easy
Health

Who in his right mind wants to die at 75?

He claims, though, that he won't actively end his life — he's always been opposed to euthanasia, and to "death with dignity" — he will not try to prolong it either.

8 years ago

Construction of the Mariner East 2 pipeline in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. Environmental groups have asked a judge to revoke the permits issued by DEP to Sunoco.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Plaintiffs ask judge to revoke ‘illegal’ Mariner East 2 permits

8 years ago

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