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It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.

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Energy

Crews stand at the scene of a gas explosion at a South Philly home
Community
6abc

South Philadelphia house explosion leaves 3 family members injured

The gas explosion blew out the windows and led to the evacuation of six other homes on the block.

4 years ago

A gas well pad in the Tiadaghton State Forest. (Marie Cusick / StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

State report shows strong natural gas production growth in 2021

After a bruising year in 2020, natural gas production and prices in Pennsylvania are on the rise this year.

4 years ago

A sign reads Philadelphia Gas works
Politics & Policy

PGW emails show involvement in drafting bill that runs counter to climate goals

The city opposes the measure, now making its way through Harrisburg, that would tie the hands of Pennsylvania municipalities regarding electrification.

4 years ago

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Storage is shown at the Marathon Petroleum Corp. refinery in Detroit, Tuesday, April 21, 2020. The world is awash in oil, there's little demand for it and we're running out of places to put it. That in a nutshell explains this week's strange and unprecedented action in the market for crude oil futures contracts, where traders essentially offered to pay someone else to deal with the oil they were due to have delivered next month.(AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Politics & Policy

U.S. to release 50 million barrels of oil to ease energy costs

The move is aimed at global energy markets, but also at U.S. voters who are coping with higher inflation and rising prices ahead of Thanksgiving and winter holiday travel.

4 years ago

Electrical power generation lines are seen below storm clouds in a rural field near Newtown, Pa. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
Money
State Impact Pennsylvania

With energy prices high, Pennsylvanians urged to review utility options

The U.S. Energy Information Administration expects households that use natural gas for heat will spend 30 percent more than they spent last winter on average.

4 years ago

A man wears a face mark as he fishes near docked oil drilling platforms
Politics & Policy

Coming off climate talks, U.S. to hold huge crude oil sale in Gulf

Under the yet-developed leases, companies could keep producing long past 2030, when scientists say the world needs to be well on the way to cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

4 years ago

President Alok Sharma (C) speaks at a table at a UN conference
NPR
Politics & Policy

Here’s what world leaders agreed to — and what they didn’t — at the U.N. climate summit

Intense climate negotiations in Glasgow, Scotland, brought about major breakthroughs and compromises, as world leaders sought to avert extreme climate change.

4 years ago

Independence National Historic Park, also known as Independence Hall. (National Park Service)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Why is the National Parks Service teaming up with PGW on a fossil fuel project in Philly?

The government’s ambitious rhetoric around climate is too often dangerously out of step with its own actions.

4 years ago

United States Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm toured the ECA (Energy Coordinating Agency), an energy efficiency job training facility in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood, with Jackie Robinson, ECA’s lead trainer
Politics & Policy

Energy Secretary Granholm, visiting Philly, touts infrastructure bill and expected job creation

In Kensington, Granholm said some of the new $3.5B in funds for weatherization will likely go to the Energy Coordinating Agency.

4 years ago

Superintendent William Hite, Mayor Jim Kenney, Solis-Cohen principal Michelina Serianni, and school district officials celebrate the new building with a ribbon cutting ceremony. (Emily Rizzo WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Solis-Cohen Elementary celebrates its brighter and greener new home

The building was made with sustainability and clean energy in mind. There’s a new air filtration system, a rooftop garden, and solar panels covering the roofs.

4 years ago

A wind turbine in front of a steaming coal power plant
NPR
Science

Glasgow climate pledges are ‘lip service’ without far more aggressive plans

A new analysis finds that of the many pledges to zero out climate emissions, just four — Chile, Costa Rica, the E.U. and the U.K. — have concrete plans to achieve that.

4 years ago

Offshore wind farm
Community
NJ Spotlight

Offshore wind farm builder tries to calm worries

Some residents fear turbines will damage tourism, but Ørsted says they will be barely visible.

4 years ago

Activists dressed as the Pokemon character Pikachu hold a sign that says,
Politics & Policy

U.S., China, and India absent from countries pledging to phase out coal

Existing targets for curbing global warming require countries to stop burning coal, but many major economies including the U.S., China, and India have set no formal dates.

5 years ago

Artists paint a mural on a a wall next to the Clydeside Expressway that reads
NPR
Politics & Policy

The COP26 summit to fight climate change is about to start. Here’s what to expect

Biden will address the COP26 climate change conference. He will speak about the United States strategy to reach its climate goals, but he doesn't have any commitments.

5 years ago

In this May 15, 2011 photo, hundreds of drilling pipes are stacked at a rail center in Gardendale, Texas. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)
Urban Planning

$6 billion plant turning natural gas to fuel planned in Pennsylvania

A Texas-based company has announced plans to build a multibillion-dollar plant on the site of a former coal mine in northeastern Pennsylvania.

5 years ago

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