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Energy

Austin Turner, 19, of Gladesville, W. Va. is one of 370 miners getting laid off at the 4 West Mine in Mt. Morris, Pa. (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

At Greene County coal mine, dwindling production means 370 lost jobs

In January, Morgantown, W.Va.-based Mepco LLC notified the state that it would begin idling the mine in early March.

7 years ago

Pennsylvania environmental regulators are investigating health complaints after the Invenergy natural gas power plant in Jessup Pa. began spewing plumes of smoke this week. The company says the emissions are temporary and part of a planned commissioning process. (Kim Crinella)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Yellow smoke, health complaints prompt state investigation at new gas power plant

Regulators are looking into health complaints after residents say a natural gas power plant being built near Scranton started emitting noxious, greenish-yellow smoke.

7 years ago

A pedestrian trudges through the storm in Philadelphia Wednesday afternoon. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

More than 110,000 without power in Pennsylvania after storm

Pennsylvania utility companies say more than 110,000 customers are without power following the state's second major snowstorm in less than a week.

7 years ago

StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Sinkholes in Chester County prompt PUC to ask for Mariner East 1 shutdown

7 years ago

Robert Taylor, (center), speaks at a St. John the Baptist Parish council meeting in 2017. He and the other members of the citizens' group around him wear T-shirts that reference the safety limit for the chemical chloroprene. (Julie Dermansky)
NPR
Health

After decades of air pollution, a Louisiana town rebels against a chemical giant

The company recently installed technology it promised would reduce chloroprene emissions by 85 percent. So far, public air monitors suggest levels are still trending upward.

7 years ago

Bruce Mansfield Power Station in Shippingport, Pa. (Reid Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Fatal gas leak at Pittsburgh-area power plant draws OSHA fines

Kevin Patrick Bachner, 34, and John Michael Gorchock, 42, both of Pittsburgh, died Aug. 29 at FirstEnergy’s Bruce Mansfield Power Station after inhaling toxic gas.

7 years ago

Heavy wet snow falls in West Philadelphia Wednesday morning. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Winter storm: Take two

What you need to know about the latest winter storm to hit our region.

7 years ago

Listen 2:09
PECO truck in the foreground, PECO worker in the background
Community

Philly region braces for another storm while thousands remain without power

The National Weather Service has declared several winter storm warnings in the region for “significant” heavy snow in eastern Pennsylvania and northern and central New Jersey.

7 years ago

Listen 5:11
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Building in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

EPA restores funding to news outlet covering Chesapeake Bay

The EPA agreed to restore $325,000 in funding to the Bay Journal, a print and online news outlet covering environmental issues related to the Chesapeake Bay.

7 years ago

Salem Nuclear Power Plant as seen from the Blackbird Creek. (Brian Drouin/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

PSEG canceling nuclear plant spending due to stalled bailout

New Jersey's largest utility is canceling spending on capital projects at a nuclear plant because a $300M financial bailout has stalled in the Legislature.

7 years ago

A natural gas power plant under construction in Bradford County, Pa. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Proposed natural gas power plant in Berks County gets set of permits from DEP

The Department of Environmental Protection has OK’d several permits for a proposed natural gas power plant in Berks County.

7 years ago

Ryan Zinke in East Bethlehem Township, Washington County. (Reid Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
NewsWorks Tonight
Science

Zinke comes to Pa. to talk abandoned mine cleanup

Ryan Zinke, President Trump’s Interior Secretary, came to Western Pennsylvania to tout the federal government’s abandoned mine cleanup program. It was an appropriate setting.

7 years ago

(U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

How this reporter’s #NoDAPL photo wound up in the Russia investigations

Never did I imagine a photo I took would be used by Russian trolls to try to manipulate the pipeline debate.

7 years ago

Daniel Raimi, author of the newly released book
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Author answers hot-button questions on fracking, including climate impact

As Pennsylvania’s gas boom helps propel the United States away from coal-fired power, one energy researcher says the impact on climate change will be a wash.

7 years ago

A backhoe clears land for construction of the Mariner East 2 pipeline in Delaware County in early 2017. (Emily Cohen/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Environmental groups seek injunction to halt Mariner East 2 pipeline construction

Several environmental groups have asked the Commonwealth Court for an injunction to halt Sunoco/Energy Transfer Partners Mariner East 2 pipeline construction.

7 years ago

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