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Environment

Three Mile Island
Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

As Three Mile Island stops producing electricity, one local community braces for change

For those who live nearby, the possibility of the plant’s closure loomed for years.

7 years ago

Waves in South Seaside Park on Sept. 20, 2019. (Justin Auciello/WHYY)
Down the Shore
Community

N.J. officials urge extreme caution as dangerous rip currents persist

Dangerous rip currents continue to impact New Jersey due to large swells from now dissipated Hurricane Humberto.

7 years ago

Masterman High School seniors Iman Acharya and Alina Kilcullen cheer for speakers at Philadelphia's climate strike on Sept. 20, 2019. (Jonathan Wilson for WHYY)
Community

‘If you don’t act like adults, we will’: Hundreds of youth climate strikers surround City Hall

Many school students and teachers attended the march disregarding the School District of Philadelphia’s announcement that they would be marked as an unexcused absence.

7 years ago

Climate activist Rafe Pomerance speaks at an event at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy in Philadelphia on Sept. 12. (Photo courtesy of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

What longtime climate activist Rafe Pomerance wants you to know

StateImpact Pennsylvania’s Susan Phillips sat down with Pomerance and asked him what he wants people to know right now.

7 years ago

Listen 5:34
Migrating shorebirds at Kimbles Beach, N.J. Researchers estimate that the population of North American shorebirds alone has fallen by more than a third since 1970. (Jacqueline Larma/AP Photo)
NPR
Science

North America has lost 3 billion birds, scientists say

More than 90% of the loss can be attributed to just a dozen bird families, including sparrows, blackbirds and finches.

7 years ago

Scientists have been studying the link between climate change and extreme weather events such as Hurricane Sandy, shown here in a NASA image, which left more than 1.3 million Pennsylvanians in the dark in 2012. (Getty Images)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Five climate change science misconceptions, debunked

Here are five commonly used myths and the real science that debunks them.

7 years ago

Erica Baugh of Upstream Alliance floats on the Delaware River in Pyne  Poynt Park in Camden, N.J. (Miguel Martinez for WHYY)
Science

Floatopia promotes a swimmable (and tube-worthy) urban Delaware River

Upstream Alliance, an environmental group, organized last weekend’s event to show that the stretch between Philly and Camden is safe to float in — sometimes.

7 years ago

Cooling towers at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Community

Three Mile Island nuclear power plant’s shutdown is imminent

The shutdown of Three Mile Island, site of the United States' worst commercial nuclear power accident, is imminent.

7 years ago

House Republicans assembled Wednesday to announce plans for a concerted push to pass a package of pro-energy industry bills.
(Katie Meyer/WITF)
Politics & Policy

Pa. GOP members begin moving priority, pro-natural gas package

The raft of proposals serves as a rejection of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s own energy plan.

7 years ago

Peter Bosak, superintendent of the Cape May County Department of Mosquito Control, explains how mosquitos are trapped. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Science

Climate change brings mosquito whack-a-mole to New Jersey

The salt marsh mosquito was once nicknamed the “New Jersey state bird.” But changing conditions are shifting concern from that mosquito to others.

7 years ago

Listen 4:37
Philadelphia students cut class on Friday, May 3, 2019 to participate in a rally at Thomas Paine Plaza to protest inaction on climate change issues. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Education

Philly students will be marked absent if they join climate strike

The School District of Philadelphia says students attending the climate strike on Friday will be marked as absent, unlike in New York.

7 years ago

(Katie Meyer/WITF)
Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Environmentalists pressure Wolf to act faster on methane emissions

Their call for action comes as the Trump administration works to loosen federal regulations on the powerful greenhouse gas.

7 years ago

The map shows the Mariner East 2 pipeline’s path across 17 Pennsylvania counties on its way to the Marcus Hook industrial complex in Delaware County, where the natural gas liquids it carries will be shipped overseas to make plastics. The map was built using state Department of Environmental Protection shapefiles of the route for which DEP issued permits. The line extends west into Ohio. (Scott Blanchard/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Courts & Law
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Court ruling clears way for Mariner East construction to restart in Chester County

PUC will have to lift injunction that blocked work at Chester County site, lawyers say.

7 years ago

Route 18 in New Brunswick. (Image: Shaun Baines/NOAA)
Down the Shore
Community

It’s been 20 years since Tropical Storm Floyd dumped excessive rainfall, spurring record flooding in N.J.

20 years ago today, Tropical Storm Floyd moved along the New Jersey coastline, dropping over a foot of rain in inland locations but only had moderate impacts at the Shore.

7 years ago

The Svínafellsjökull glacier in Iceland. Glacial retreat is among the most visible impacts of climate change. Since the early 20th century, with few exceptions, glaciers around the world have been retreating at unprecedented rates. (Marie Cusick / StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Going carbon neutral: Pa.’s key role in fight against climate change

StateImpact Pa. signed on to “Covering Climate Now,” an effort that describes itself as “aimed at strengthening the media’s focus on the climate crisis.”

7 years ago

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