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Down the Shore
Community

‘Weirdest fish in the ocean’ makes rare appearance in N.J.’s Barnegat Bay

A woman spotted what an environmental advocacy organization calls the “weirdest fish in the ocean” in New Jersey’s Barnegat Bay.

7 years ago

The site of the Revolution Pipeline explosion that occurred in September 2018. (Marcellus Air)
The Why
Politics & Policy

The Chester County DA vs. the Mariner East pipeline

Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan is threatening to sue Sunoco on behalf of residents afraid of sinkholes along the Mariner East 2 pipeline route.

Air Date: September 30, 2019

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Smog blankets the sky in Mexico City. (Marco Ugarte/AP Photo)
Science

Dark skies: UN meeting reveals a world in a really bad mood

The UN is often criticized for talking a lot and not getting much done. But when it comes to eloquent talk, particularly about the future, it has always been the strongest.

7 years ago

(Courtesy Philadelphia Parks & Recreation)
PlanPhilly
Community
Eyes on the Street

Green up this fall with a free tree paid for by the city

Registration is now open for the Philadelphia Parks & Recreation and Tree Philly Fall Yard Tree Giveaway.

7 years ago

In this file photo, Mariner East 2 pipeline construction crews work in the backyards of homes on Lisa Drive in West Whiteland Township, Chester County, on May 2, 2018 after sinkholes opened in the area. That caused one of the ME2 project's many delays. (Marie Cusick/WITF)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Sunoco still needs DEP approvals to restart pipeline work in Chester County

The lifting of the injunction at the sinkhole site isn’t a final green light for Mariner East.

7 years ago

A commercial scallop fishing boat enters the Manasquan Inlet in Point Pleasant, N.J.  (Wayne Parry/AP Photo, File)
Down the Shore
Community

From the sea to the food insecure: Seafood ‘gleaning’ program begins in N.J.

Several pantries, soup kitchens, and a women's shelter in New Jersey are the beneficiaries of fresh seafood thanks to a pilot "gleaning" program that began in August.

7 years ago

The view from the Forked River Mountains in Ocean County. (Image courtesy of JSHN contributor Kara Ann.)
Down the Shore
Urban Planning

Ocean County announces 3,100 acre open space donation adjacent to ‘Forked River Mountains’

Thousands of acres in an Ocean County, New Jersey wilderness area will never be developed thanks to a land donation, officials announced. 

7 years ago

The Horsham Air Guard Station in Bucks County, Pa. where the use of PFAS chemicals in firefighting foam has been linked with contamination of local water supplies. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science

Bucks, Montgomery counties will get $5 million to study health effects of PFAS

Residents in affected Bucks and Montgomery County communities will be eligible for blood testing as part of a national study on the effects of PFAS.

7 years ago

(AP Photo/USDA, File)
Down the Shore
Health

Mosquito found at Joint Base tests positive for dangerous disease

Military officials at a New Jersey base say a mosquito found at the installation tested positive for a dangerous disease. 

7 years ago

A coal-fired power plant in central Poland. Global greenhouse gas emissions rose in 2018, and the world is on track for potentially catastrophic climate change in the coming decades. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
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Politics & Policy

U.N. Climate Summit sets stage for new national emissions promises

Leaders from nearly 200 countries are attending a special United Nations Summit on climate change today.

7 years ago

This Sept. 20, 2019 photo shows some of the sand dunes in Stone Harbor, N.J. (Wayne Parry/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

A little off the top: N.J. may rearrange some ocean dunes

New Jersey may take the unusual step of trimming some large dunes and using the sand to widen the beach in front of them.

7 years ago

Jan. 13, 2018 file photo, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres talks to the media during a join declaration with the Colombian president, in Bogota, Colombia. (Fernando Vergara/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

World leaders feel the heat in upcoming UN climate summit

Only those with new, specific and bold plans can command the podium and the ever-warming world's attention, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.

7 years ago

TMI supporters gathered Friday to lament the plant's closure, and the loss of jobs for the area. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Politics & Policy

With TMI closed, nuclear advocates’ concern shifts to Pa.’s other plants

Those who support nuclear worry that without tax breaks, the plants will be shut out of a competitive energy market.

7 years ago

Science teacher Leigh Foy (right) couldn’t find climate education materials so she and her husband, chemistry professor Greg Foy (left) designed their own.  (Provided)
Education
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pa. has no standards for teaching climate change in the classroom — so it might not be taught at all

Pennsylvania has started to modernize its science curriculum, including a focus on climate change.

7 years ago

Protestors and city officials gather outside the DELCORA building in Chester to protest the Delaware County Regional Water Authority’s deal with Aqua America, Inc. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Delco Dems: DELCORA sale is a typical bad, backroom Republican deal

Democrats in Delaware County slammed a deal that sees the merger of DELCORA with Aqua Pennsylvania Wastewater as a deal among Republican insiders.

7 years ago

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