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Environment

In this Feb. 15, 2018 file photo, Judith Enck, (center), former regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency addresses those gathered at a protest against President Trump's plan to expand offshore drilling for oil and gas in Albany, N.Y.  A U.S. judge in Alaska says President Donald Trump exceeded his authority when he reversed a ban on offshore drilling in vast parts of the Arctic Ocean and dozens of canyons in the Atlantic Ocean. (David Klepper/AP Photo, File)
Courts & Law

Judge restores Obama-era drilling ban in Arctic

Judge Sharon Gleason in a decision late Friday threw out Trump's executive order that overturned the bans that comprised a key part of Obama's environmental legacy.

7 years ago

In this file photo taken Aug. 19, 2008, the Chevron Genesis Oil Rig Platform is seen in the Gulf of Mexico near New Orleans, La. (Mary Altaffer/AP Photo)
Down the Shore
Politics & Policy

Shore congressman introduces legislation to ban offshore oil, gas projects

A freshman Shore congressman has introduced a bill to ban offshore drilling and seismic testing off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. 

7 years ago

Smog fills Utah's Salt Lake Valley in January 2017. Winter weather in the area often traps air pollution that is bad for public health. (George Frey/Getty Images)
NPR
Science

EPA panel considering guidelines that upend basic air pollution science

At a public meeting, multiple members of the committee said they do not agree that breathing air polluted with soot can lead to an early death.

7 years ago

Croda Inc. manufacturing plant
Money

Croda fined $246,000 for Thanksgiving weekend gas leak that closed Delaware Memorial Bridge

Croda’s Atlas Point plant in Delaware violated air and water permits. More than a ton of ethylene oxide was released, stopping traffic for seven hours.

7 years ago

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The Chemours site (Chambers Works) in Salem County, New Jersey (Tim Larsen/Office of the New Jersey Attorney General)
Science
NJ Spotlight

Chemours quantifies PFAS substitute sent to South Jersey plant

On Monday, the DEP said Chemours is currently using PFAS-replacement chemicals at the Chambers Works site, and is discharging the chemical into water and air.

7 years ago

This Eastern redbud tree outside WHYY studios will bloom in a few weeks, and that thought delights Sally McCabe, associate director of community education at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

Exulting in Philly’s great treasure of blossoming trees

Pennsylvania Horticultural Society educator, Sally McCabe talks the timeline of trees as they get ready to burst into blossom.

7 years ago

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As a boy, Yuji Onuma won a contest to create the town slogan for Futaba, Japan. His phrase --
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

‘I am the witness’: Post-Fukushima, a Japanese man’s regrets mirror his country’s turn against nuclear power

In Fukushima, farmers and residents put their stock in solar.

7 years ago

Listen 6:48
In this May 22, 2017 file photo shown is the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa.. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Radio Times
Science

Three Mile Island anniversary and the future of nuclear power

On the 40th anniversary of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, we look back at the disaster and discuss the effect it had on the nuclear power industry then and now.

Air Date: March 28, 2019 10:00 am

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Capitol Building, Harrisburg. (Kevin McCorry/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Pa. House panel hosts climate change doubter, draws rebuke from scientists

Geologist Gregory Wrightstone was tapped to testify by state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, a conservative House member and chair of the Environmental Resources panel.

7 years ago

Last summer, weeds engulf a playground at housing section of the former Naval Air Warfare Center Warminster in Warminster, Pa. In Warminster and surrounding towns in eastern Pennsylvania, and at other sites around the United States, the foams once used routinely in firefighting training at military bases contained per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. EPA testing between 2013 and 2015 found significant amounts of PFAS in public water supplies in 33 U.S. states. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Wolf’s $8M to remove PFAS from Bucks water won’t solve the problem, activists say

Pennsylvania will pay to help remove unregulated toxic contaminants from 17 wells in the Bucks County communities of Warminster, Ivyland, Warwick and Warrington.

7 years ago

Cows graze in a field at Willow Run Farm in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania. Farmer Deanne Boyer uses forward-thinking farming techniques in raising her cattle in a way that she says is best for the animals, the land and the environment as a whole. (Matt Smith/ for WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

Should we stop eating meat to fight climate change?

Cut way back on red meat, say scientists, who came up with a controversial diet recommended for our health, and the planet’s.

7 years ago

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In this May 22, 2017 file photo shown is the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa.. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Community
PA Post

40 years after Three Mile Island accident, debate over safety of nuclear energy still goes back and forth

Forty years after the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island changed the trajectory of nuclear energy in this country, the debate over its safety and viability continues.

7 years ago

Cars drive past windmills on the grounds of a sewage treatment plant in Atlantic City, N.J. on Monday Jan. 4, 2016. (Wayne Parry/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy
NJ Spotlight

Despite favorable political winds, scant progress in N.J. on climate change

Environmental advocates weigh in on why pollution-control efforts in the Garden State have lagged, and on prospects for reaching the state’s goal on carbon emissions.

7 years ago

Terry Williams standing in one of Eastwick's polluted, urban renewal tracts.  (Troubled Waters Project)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Philadelphia seeks to heal old Eastwick wound with a ‘village in the city’

Philadelphia’s ‘road map’ for Eastwick development moves a process 60 years in the making forward.

7 years ago

The Allegheny Land Trust manages the Audubon Greenway northwest of Pittsburgh. The organization first acquired a piece of the land in 2003 and has since added to it with a combination of public and private dollars. (Amy Sisk/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pa. expects funding from popular conservation program this year despite 5-month lapse

Despite strong bipartisan support for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, Congress let it expire last September.

7 years ago

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