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Energy

The Danish company Ørsted plans to place wind turbines like this 853-foot tall GE Haliade X-12 turbine in the Skipjack Wind Farm east of the Delaware’s southern beaches. (GE photo)
Community

Skyscrapers in the sea: Massive wind turbines planned off Delaware coast

The latest plans to harness the power of the wind feature massive sea skyscrapers installed east of the state’s beaches in the Skipjack Wind Farm.

6 years ago

Smoke billows from the Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining Complex in Philadelphia, Wednesday, June 26, 2019. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

City to issue recommendations for developers eyeing PES refinery

While the report, due out in November, will explore strategies for shaping the site’s future, it won’t prescribe a favored outcome.

6 years ago

In this file photo, Mariner East 2 pipeline construction crews work in the backyards of homes on Lisa Drive in West Whiteland Township, Chester County, on May 2, 2018 after sinkholes opened in the area. That caused one of the ME2 project's many delays. (Marie Cusick/WITF)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Sunoco still needs DEP approvals to restart pipeline work in Chester County

The lifting of the injunction at the sinkhole site isn’t a final green light for Mariner East.

6 years ago

Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery on August 8, 2019. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Community

Philly Fire Department personnel no longer at PES refinery site 24/7

Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel said only trace amounts of dangerous hydrofluoric acid remain at the damaged Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery.

6 years ago

A coal-fired power plant in central Poland. Global greenhouse gas emissions rose in 2018, and the world is on track for potentially catastrophic climate change in the coming decades. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

U.N. Climate Summit sets stage for new national emissions promises

Leaders from nearly 200 countries are attending a special United Nations Summit on climate change today.

6 years ago

TMI supporters gathered Friday to lament the plant's closure, and the loss of jobs for the area. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Politics & Policy

With TMI closed, nuclear advocates’ concern shifts to Pa.’s other plants

Those who support nuclear worry that without tax breaks, the plants will be shut out of a competitive energy market.

6 years ago

Three Mile Island
Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

As Three Mile Island stops producing electricity, one local community braces for change

For those who live nearby, the possibility of the plant’s closure loomed for years.

6 years ago

Scientists have been studying the link between climate change and extreme weather events such as Hurricane Sandy, shown here in a NASA image, which left more than 1.3 million Pennsylvanians in the dark in 2012. (Getty Images)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Five climate change science misconceptions, debunked

Here are five commonly used myths and the real science that debunks them.

6 years ago

(Mark Henninger for Billy Penn)
Money
Broke in Philly

PUC votes to make utility bills more affordable for low-income Pennsylvanians

In a 3-2 vote, Pa.’s Public Utility Commission amended its policy statement to reduce the burden on low-income customers in assistance programs.

6 years ago

Cooling towers at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Community

Three Mile Island nuclear power plant’s shutdown is imminent

The shutdown of Three Mile Island, site of the United States' worst commercial nuclear power accident, is imminent.

6 years ago

House Republicans assembled Wednesday to announce plans for a concerted push to pass a package of pro-energy industry bills.
(Katie Meyer/WITF)
Politics & Policy

Pa. GOP members begin moving priority, pro-natural gas package

The raft of proposals serves as a rejection of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s own energy plan.

6 years ago

Members of the Roofers Local 130 attend the Worker’s Presidential Summit. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Philadelphia union workers split on Medicare for All

Moderate candidates tried to sway Philadelphia workers away from public health care, arguing it would strip them of their hard earned benefits.

6 years ago

Listen 3:08
(Katie Meyer/WITF)
Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Environmentalists pressure Wolf to act faster on methane emissions

Their call for action comes as the Trump administration works to loosen federal regulations on the powerful greenhouse gas.

6 years ago

The map shows the Mariner East 2 pipeline’s path across 17 Pennsylvania counties on its way to the Marcus Hook industrial complex in Delaware County, where the natural gas liquids it carries will be shipped overseas to make plastics. The map was built using state Department of Environmental Protection shapefiles of the route for which DEP issued permits. The line extends west into Ohio. (Scott Blanchard/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Courts & Law
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Court ruling clears way for Mariner East construction to restart in Chester County

PUC will have to lift injunction that blocked work at Chester County site, lawyers say.

6 years ago

Oyster Creek was New Jersey's first nuclear generation station, opened in 1967. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Down the Shore
Community

Offshore wind farm developer secures approval to connect to Oyster Creek

A proposed offshore wind farm could revive the closed Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Ocean County.

6 years ago

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