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StateImpact Pennsylvania

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TMI’s future, federal policy in spotlight on Smart Talk program

9 years ago

The Delaware River flows along the Pennsylvania side at the Delaware Water Gap.

StateImpact Pennsylvania

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Hearings for proposed ban on fracking in the Delaware basin start this week

9 years ago

Treated oil and gas wastewater flows into a western Pennsylvania stream. (Avner Vengosh/Duke)

StateImpact Pennsylvania

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Study: Conventional drilling waste responsible for radioactivity spike in rivers

Treatment plants that handle conventional oil and gas waste water are causing a buildup of radioactive materials at the bottom of three Western Pennsylvania waterways.

9 years ago

Polen Run in Ryerson Station State Park, Greene County. Photo: Reid R. Frazier

StateImpact Pennsylvania

Science

Settlement: No longwall mining beneath state park stream in Greene County

9 years ago

Protesters blocked pipeline construction equipment on the property of The Adorers of the Blood of Christ, an order of Catholic nuns, in Lancaster County in October. On Friday, the nuns asked an appeals court to allow them to make their religious objections to the pipeline in a lower court. (MARIE CUSICK / STATEIMPACT PENNSYLVANIA)

StateImpact Pennsylvania

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Nuns want court to hear their religious objections to Atlantic Sunrise pipeline

9 years ago

At a public information session in Dover, Delaware, Thursday, Charlotte Reid looks over information about the Trump administration's plan to expand oil and gas drilling along the Atlantic coastline. She fears that could put Delaware at risk of a spill.

Politics & Policy

Delaware residents tell Washington they oppose offshore drilling

The goal of a public meeting in Dover was to listen to local experts and residents.

9 years ago

StateImpact Pennsylvania

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DEP fines natural gas company $1.7M for drilling violations

9 years ago

StateImpact Pennsylvania

Politics & Policy

Hearing will scrutinize use of money in special environmental funds

9 years ago

Trees cut on a Susquehanna County property in March 2016 to make way for the proposed Constitution Pipeline. The company says it will fight a FERC order upholding New York State's denial of a permit for the project.

StateImpact Pennsylvania

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After new setback, Constitution Pipeline says it will fight FERC order

9 years ago

Jerome Shabazz runs the Overbook Environmental Education Center in Philadelphia. Shabazz says he has used federal dollars from the EPA's environmental justice office to raise awareness about water quality and toxins like lead.

StateImpact Pennsylvania

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MLK’s environmental justice legacy threatened by Trump administration cuts

9 years ago

Pennsylvania's wind industry boomed through 2012, but development of new wind farms has slowed in the years since. (vaxomatic via Flickr)

StateImpact Pennsylvania

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A surge, then a fade for Pennsylvania’s wind industry

More than two dozen wind farms popped up across the state leading up to 2012, but only one in the years since.

9 years ago

StateImpact Pennsylvania

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Judge fines environmental attorneys $52,000 for ‘frivolous’ injection well suit

The case is centered on a 2014 ban and a subsequent municipal charter adopted by Grant Township that banned fracking wastewater injection projects.

9 years ago

StateImpact Pennsylvania

Science

Settlement requires coal plants to get permits with tighter pollution controls

The settlement pertains to 10 coal-fired power plants around the state that have been operating on expired water pollution permits for years — in one case for 17 years.

9 years ago

FILE - In this Friday, May 9, 2003 file photo, angler Andy Hails, of Montgomery, Ala., checks the fishing lines on his boat as he trolls the Gulf of Mexico near a natural gas well off the Alabama coast near Gulf Shores, Ala. President Obama announced his new offshore drilling policy Wednesday, March 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

Politics & Policy

Delaware threatens legal action against offshore drilling plan

State Attorney General Matt Denn sent a letter to U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to formally object to the federal plan to allow oil drilling off Delaware’s coast.

9 years ago

U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey wants the state to be exempted from a Trump administration plan for expanded offshore oil and gas drilling. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Politics & Policy

N.J. wants out of Trump plan for offshore drilling

U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has removed Florida’s waters from consideration for expanded offshore oil and gas drilling — and New Jersey wants the same exemption.

9 years ago

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