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Energy

Mayor Jim Kenney signs a bill Tuesday authorizing the Philadelphia Energy Authority — an independent municipal authority set up specifically to reduce the city's energy's consumption — to enter into a contract to purchase 22 percent of its power from solar provider Community Energy. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Philly signs agreement to buy solar energy

The city of Philadelphia plans to fulfill 22 percent of its energy demand with solar power.

8 years ago

(Image from PennEast Pipeline Company
Courts & Law

PennEast now faces tough scrutiny from DEP after winning court battle

Federal judge grants eminent domain in New Jersey, but pipeline company must still meet many environmental standards.

8 years ago

Tieyuan Zhu, (left), and Eugene Morgan of Pennsylvania State University are part of a research team studying carbon storage. They are pictured here with a model that helps explain how carbon dioxide moves through rock underground.
(Amy Sisk/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

At Penn State, researchers push for answers on carbon capture: Will it stay where we put it?

Technology is seen as key to lessening the effects of climate change.

8 years ago

A massive fire roars through a neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif., after a PG&E gas pipeline ruptured, killing eight people, in 2010. (Paul Sakuma/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

PG&E falsified gas pipeline safety records, regulators say

The investigation followed the gas pipeline explosion in 2010 that incinerated a neighborhood in San Bruno, just south of San Francisco.

8 years ago

Yellow markers show the right of way for the Mariner East pipeline in Lebanon County. (Marie Cusick/ StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

PUC panel sees ‘statewide concern’ with pipeline corrosion after ME1 leak

Investigators propose a ‘remaining life study’ for the aging pipeline.

8 years ago

MarkWest's Houston gas processing plant in Washington County, Pa. (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Four workers injured at gas plant blast near Pittsburgh

The blast happened shortly after 6 p.m. at MarkWest’s Houston Processing and Fractionation Facility at 800 Western Avenue in Chartiers Township.

8 years ago

Downed trees mark the route of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline in Deerfield, Va., in February. A federal appeals court has blocked development of portions of the pipeline. (Steve Helber/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

Quoting ‘The Lorax,’ court pulls permit for pipeline crossing Appalachian Trail

The judges cited Dr. Seuss' The Lorax: "We trust the United States Forest Service to 'speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.'"

8 years ago

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

PennEast pipeline can take New Jersey lands using eminent domain, judge rules

The PennEast Pipeline Co. can take private land through eminent domain to build a natural gas pipeline, a New Jersey federal judge ruled on Friday.

8 years ago

Natural gas wells in Springville Township, Pa.
(Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

DEP unveils proposal to reduce emissions from existing oil, gas wells

Pennsylvania environmental officials have come out with a plan to reduce leaks from thousands of the state’s oil and gas wells.

8 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

Retiring Shore congressman co-leads charge against airgun ocean blasting

A bipartisan group of federal legislators is opposing the Trump administration's recent decision to permit seismic airgun surveying off the Eastern seaboard. 

8 years ago

Construction on the Mariner East 2 pipeline has faced myriad problems, including damaged water supplies and sinkholes in a residential neighborhood in Chester County. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Courts & Law
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Judge denies emergency petition for Mariner East shutdown

A suit brought by seven residents fails on all four requirements.

8 years ago

A sign protesting the proposed PennEast Pipeline route in Carbon County, Pa. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Courts & Law
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Judge grants first eminent domain case to PennEast in Pennsylvania

Company says ruling will allow it to complete surveys. New Jersey landowners await ruling from different judge

8 years ago

(Amy Sisk/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Two hurt in construction accident along Mariner East 2 near Pittsburgh

Contractors were struck by equipment.

8 years ago

(From left) WITF Smart Talk host Scott LaMar speaks with Gov. Tom Wolf and first lady Frances Wolf during a live broadcast from the Governors Residence in Harrisburg on Dec. 7, 2018. (Lisa Wardle/WITF)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Gov. Wolf on climate change: ‘We are having real problems’

Wolf spoke Friday morning at the Governor’s Residence with Scott LaMar, host of WITF’s Smart Talk.

8 years ago

In this photo from May 2018, pipeline workers probe the ground on Lisa Drive in West Whiteland Township where sinkholes have developed as a result of the Mariner East 2 construction. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Delco study: Pipeline blast could be devastating, but risk is low

A flammable vapor cloud could spread as far as 1.3 miles downwind of a rupture, a consultant says.

8 years ago

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