Environment
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
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
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 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.
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Listen 0:49Chemours 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.
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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.
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Listen 6:09In Fukushima, farmers and residents put their stock in solar.
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Listen 6:48Three 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
Listen 49:44Pa. 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.
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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.
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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.
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Listen 08:32Forty 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.
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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.
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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
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.
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