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Energy

A power plant near Katowice, Poland, the host city for a major global climate conference that began on Sunday. It is the most important climate meeting since the 2015 Paris climate agreement was signed. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
NPR
Science

High stakes as International Climate Conference begins

A major international climate conference kicked off Sunday in Poland.

7 years ago

Scott Keogh, president of Volkswagen of America Inc., speaks during AutoMobility LA ahead of the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, Calif., on Wednesday. (Dania Maxwell/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
NPR
Community

Volkswagen planning a new North American factory for electric cars

At $30,000 to $40,000, Volkswagen's electric car would be able to compete with an upcoming $35,000 make of the Tesla Model 3.

7 years ago

An aerial view of Mariner East 2 pipeline construction, adjacent to the Fairview Golf Course in Lebanon County August 24, 2018. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Courts & Law
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Mariner East pipelines: Judge reviews request for immediate shutdown

Residents want the lines stopped while judge considers whether to halt them permanently.

7 years ago

Little Blue Run coal ash pond, on the Pennsylvania-West Virginia border. (Google Earth)
Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Leaky coal ash pond seeks new pollution permit from DEP

The largest coal ash pond east of the Mississippi is asking the state for a new pollution discharge permit. Little Blue Run, is on the Pennsylvania–West Virginia border.

7 years ago

Exelon's Three Mile Island plant is scheduled to prematurely close in September 2019. The company has been lobbying for help from the state to keep it open. (Exelon/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania nuclear plants could be saved, report says, if lawmakers act

The 42-page report published Thursday by Pennsylvania’s bipartisan Nuclear Energy Caucus was nearly two years in the making.

7 years ago

In this file photo taken Aug. 19, 2008, the Chevron Genesis Oil Rig Platform is seen in the Gulf of Mexico near New Orleans, La. (Mary Altaffer/AP Photo)
Down the Shore
Politics & Policy

Feds authorize seismic surveys for Atlantic Ocean drilling

The Trump administration is authorizing the use of seismic air guns to find oil and gas formations deep underneath the Atlantic Ocean floor.

7 years ago

(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
Radio Times
Science

Climate change: the talks, the costs, and the consequences

Guests: Jean Chemnick, Robert Kopp, Stephen Pacala The UN climate change conference in Katowice, Poland starts Mo ...

Air Date: November 30, 2018 10:00 am

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Law enforcement and protesters clash near the site of the Dakota Access pipeline in Cannon Ball, N.D., in November 2016.
(Morton County Sheriff's Department/AP)
NPR
Community

2 years after Standing Rock protests, tensions remain but oil business booms

North Dakota's oil production is growing so fast the state likely will run out of pipeline capacity next year.

7 years ago

The London skyline, shown in March 2017, is still shining bright. But the U.K. is using noticeably less energy than it did more than a decade ago. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

The U.K. economy is growing — but its energy use is shrinking

In the global fight against climate change, the United Kingdom has quietly notched an unusual — and somewhat mystifying — victory.

7 years ago

Fire investigators search the debris at a home where an explosion occurred following a gas line failure in September in Lawrence, Mass. (Charles Krupa/AP)
NPR
Community

Federal investigators pinpoint what caused string of gas explosions in Mass.

At least five homes were destroyed and a person was killed. More than 20 others were injured.

7 years ago

One analysis has found that joining the nation’s separate power grids could have significant benefits. (StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Wolf joins governors calling for unified, national power grid

A bipartisan group of governors, including Pennsylvania’s Tom Wolf, is calling on federal regulators to look at unifying the nation’s power grids.

7 years ago

Solar panels
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

New plan calls for 10 percent solar power in Pa. by 2030

Pennsylvania could lower its greenhouse gas emissions, create jobs, and improve public health if it got more power from the sun. That’s ...

7 years ago

In this Sunday, July 8, 2018, photograph, 2018 Model 3 sedans charge while on display outside a Tesla showroom in Littleton, Colo. (David Zalubowski/AP Photo)
Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pa. regulators adopt new policy, clearing confusion over electric vehicle charging stations

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission began looking into the issue earlier this year.

7 years ago

Keystone XL pipeline sections sit on a train near Glendive, Mont. (Nate Hegyi/Yellowstone Public Radio)
NPR
Community

As construction of Keystone XL is paused, tribes brace for what’s next

This week a federal judge in Montana temporarily blocked TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry oil over 1,000 miles from the Alberta tar sands to Nebraska.

7 years ago

Mariner East 2 pipeline construction along Zinns Mill Road in Lebanon County August 24, 2018. (StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Sunoco expects hybrid Mariner East 2 to start operating by year’s end

Construction and hydrotesting are ‘100 percent’ done, officials tell financial analysts.

7 years ago

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