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Energy

In this Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019 photo, Brendan Shaughnessy, (left), with the Nuclear Issues Study Group, protests with other activists ahead of a meeting of a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission panel in Albuquerque, N.M. (Susan Montoya Bryan/AP Photo)
Money

Holtec defends plans for nuclear waste storage facility

A New Jersey-based company is defending plans to build a multibillion-dollar facility in the New Mexico desert to store spent fuel from commercial nuclear reactors.

7 years ago

A large cooling tower and other buildings at the nuclear power site in Salem County can be seen near a farm in Lower Alloways Creek Township, N.J., in rural Salem County Nov. 13, 2007.  (Mel Evans, AP, file)
Money
NJ Spotlight

PSEG drives home vow to shutter nuclear plants unless public subsidizes them

The company maintains new filings with state demonstrate the case for up to $300 million in annual aid for three years, but most financial information has been redacted.

7 years ago

Crews worked on Monday Jan. 21 to stabilize a new sinkhole that opened up at Lisa Drive, a suburban development in West Whiteland Township, Chester County where Sunoco operates its Mariner East pipelines. (Jon Hurdle / StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Mariner East pipelines: New sinkhole opens at Chester County site; Sunoco shuts line

A new sinkhole appeared late Sunday at a Sunoco pipeline site in Chester Co. where several earlier sinkholes led officials to halt construction because of safety concerns.

7 years ago

Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Judges say DEP unlawfully issued air-quality permits to Sunoco at Marcus Hook

The DEP said Sunoco can continue to operate at Marcus Hook while the DEP review takes place.

7 years ago

A Peoples Gas vehicle is equipped with an advanced leak detection system to find places where methane is escaping from pipelines.
(Sabrina Bodon / WESA)
Health
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Peoples Gas unveils high-tech methane leak detection system

Utilities across Pennsylvania are required by law to look for leaks.

7 years ago

In this May 2018 photo, workers and contractors for Sunoco Pipeline investigate sink holes behind homes at Lisa Drive, West Whiteland Township, Chester County where the company has been drilling for construction of the Mariner East 2 and 2X pipelines. The company offered to relocate residents of the five homes whose yards are crossed by the pipeline right of way. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Courts & Law
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Chester County DA names former federal prosecutor to beef up pipeline probe

Tom Hogan says the investigation will proceed even if there are talks with Sunoco.

7 years ago

A natural gas drilling pad in Pennsylvania.(Lindsay Lazarski/for WHYY)
Courts & Law
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pa. drillers must pay millions in outstanding impact fees, court rules

Natural gas companies must pay millions of dollars in outstanding impact fees to the state, following a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling.

7 years ago

A sign on Riegelsville Road in Holland Township, New Jersey, shows local opposition to the PennEast pipeline. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Courts & Law
StateImpact Pennsylvania

New Jersey Attorney General says federal judge erred in PennEast Pipeline ruling

New Jersey’s attorney general says PennEast Pipeline Co. can’t legally sue the state for access to more than 40 parcels of protected land.

7 years ago

Cars drive past windmills on the grounds of a sewage treatment plant in Atlantic City, N.J. on Monday Jan. 4, 2016. (Wayne Parry/AP Photo)
Community
NJ Spotlight

Offshore-wind developers, N.J. officials won’t reveal key details of proposals

Three developers are vying to build offshore-wind farms aimed at achieving the Murphy administration’s goal of building 1,100 megawatts of capacity off the Jersey coast.

7 years ago

The Andover estate in Thornbury Township, Delaware County, along the route of the Mariner East 2 pipeline which began operating on Dec. 29. A valve site for the pipeline is in the center of the picture.
(Eric Friedman/Submitted)
Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Mariner East startup renews safety fears for some residents in Delaware County

Homeowners are focused on the integrity of a repurposed 12-inch pipeline first built in 1930s.

7 years ago

wind farm offshore
Down the Shore
Politics & Policy

Danish company seeks to build offshore wind farm 15 miles from Atlantic City

A Danish energy firm has submitted a bid to build New Jersey's first offshore wind farm.

7 years ago

Methane leaks throughout the entire process of developing natural gas — from well sites, to storage and processing facilities and pipelines. (Joe Ulrich/WITF)
Community
ProPublica

Powerless: What it sounds and looks like when a gas driller overruns your land

For some residents, gas operations aren’t down the road or up the hollow, but right on their farm, forest or driveway.

7 years ago

File photo: Energy Transfer, the parent company of Mariner East 2 pipeline builder, Sunoco, works at Snitz Creek in West Cornwall Township, Lebanon County after a drilling mud spill during the summer. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Mariner East 2 pipeline is up and running, Sunoco says

The company said in a notice that the 350-mile line, which spans Pennsylvania, will be carrying ethane, butane and propane to the Marcus Hook industrial complex.

7 years ago

The Trump administration EPA says regulations to reduce power plant emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants are too costly and should no longer be considered legally
NPR
Politics & Policy

Trump EPA says mercury limits on coal plants too costly, not ‘necessary’

The National Mining Association welcomed the move, calling the mercury limits "punitive" and "massively unbalanced."

7 years ago

Natural gas wells in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Efficiencies, pipelines help propel Pa. gas production in 2018

Natural gas production in Pennsylvania is expected to reach a new high by year’s end: 6 trillion cubic feet.

7 years ago

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