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Atlantic City seeks ‘microgrid’ to reduce impact of citywide power outages

Although it was spared the devastation Superstorm Sandy wrought on other seaside towns further north, Atlantic City still lost power for ...

8 years ago

 View of Arkema's Texas plant. (Bing Maps)
Health

King of Prussia company responds to chemical fire, explosions at its Texas plant

Following the flood brought in by Hurricane Harvey in Texas, a chemical silo belonging to the company Arkema exploded early Thursday morn ...

8 years ago

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Harvey-level damage probably won’t happen in Philadelphia, but intense flooding already does

8 years ago

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Money

Impact from Harvey to be felt as higher gas prices in the Mid-Atlantic region

Get ready for a big jump in gasoline prices because of the flooding in Texas. Tom Kloza, global energy analyst at the Oil Price In ...

8 years ago

Protesters armed with signs fill the bleachers at Pine Belt Arena in Toms River, where the New Jersey Pinelands Commission held a public hearing on the Southern Reliability pipeline through Burlington and Ocean counties. (Emma Lee/WHYY, file)
Urban Planning

Proposed natural gas pipeline in South Jersey receives key approval

A proposed natural gas pipeline denounced by environmentalists is one step closer to becoming a reality in South Jersey. On Tuesda ...

8 years ago

 Gov. Carney signed an executive order to create a working group to examine the possibility of offshore wind in Delaware.(Zoë Read/WHYY)
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Delaware takes another try at offshore wind [video]

Gov. Carney signed an executive order to explore the possibility of offshore wind in Delaware.  Gov. John Carney, D-Delaware, ...

8 years ago

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Politics & Policy

Congressman Frank Pallone warns that ocean drilling could lead to an oil spill

New Jersey officials are standing up against President Donald Trump’s offshore oil drilling proposal. Congressman Frank Pall ...

8 years ago

 Gov. Chris Christie is telling the Trump administration New Jersey opposes  proposed natural gas and oil exploration off the state's nearly 130-mile coast. (AP file photo)
Politics & Policy

Christie tells Trump White House ‘no’ on coastal energy

Gov. Chris Christie is telling the Trump administration that New Jersey is opposed to proposed natural gas and oil exploration off the st ...

8 years ago

 Monday's eclipse will cut solar panel's power-generating ability. Regional transmission company PJM is getting ready for interruption.(Lilac Mountain Photography/Bigstock)
Urban Planning

Eclipse to dim regional grid’s solar energy supply

When the total solar eclipse darkens skies in the Philadelphia region Monday, it will interrupt the power-generating capacity of solar pa ...

8 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)
Science

Group forms to block subsidies for N.J.’s aging nuclear power plans

A newly-formed coalition of consumer, business, and environmental groups is opposing ratepayer-funded subsidies for nuclear power plants. ...

8 years ago

Researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab in New Jersey put up a picture of the nuclear fusion drive they’re building in their workspace. (Alan Yu/WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

Inside the NASA program that makes science fiction technology real

Physicists and engineers in New Jersey are working on a power source that can take humans far out into our solar system. We have l ...

8 years ago

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The Pulse
Science

Fuel, oxygen, and ignition: the science of fireworks

A childhood pyromaniac grows up, becomes a chemist and makes sparks fly in the lab. Matt Cline, 43, is a chemical engineering lab ...

8 years ago

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What's the future of power in our country? (Eilís O'Neill/for WHYY)
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Power Struggle

What should fuel America? Wind? Sun? Cow dung? We’re having a power struggle over that – it’s political, but it’s ...

Air Date: April 13, 2017

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Sal Fede displays his new solar panels mounted on the roof of his Philadelphia home. (Joel Wolfram/for WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

Solar co-ops help homeowners harness the sun’s energy

Neighbors are teaming up to tackle the challenge of switching to sun-sourced electricty. Sal Fede’s house isn’t much t ...

8 years ago

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The Wanapum Dam on Washington State's Columbia River. (Eilís O'Neill/for WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

This Washington state dam is trying to be fish-friendly

The people at Wanapum Dam are trying to balance the interests of fish and clean power. The Wanapum Dam is massive. It̵ ...

8 years ago

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