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Environment

A field of corn is seen on a farm, Wednesday, July 11, 2018, Lancaster County, Pa. (Matt Slocum/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Gov. Wolf wants Pa. to lead the country in organic. What would that take?

Pennsylvania is already ranked second in the country in sales value of organic products. Data from the USDA shows 2016's sales exceeded $659 million.

7 years ago

US Steel's Clairton Coke Works.
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

U.S. Steel ordered to clean up sulfur emissions following fire

The Allegheny County Health Department gave the company five days to respond with a plan to reduce emissions at Clairton Coke Works and its Edgar Thompson and Irvin plants.

7 years ago

Barnegat Bay on a normal day is almost at the street level in Seaside Heights, NJ. (Alan Tu/WHYY, file)
Politics & Policy

Without protection, N.J.’s flood-prone back bay towns risk $1.5 billion damage annually

Study suggests a variety of ways to reduce back bay flooding: storm surge barriers, levees, floodwalls, building lifts, living shorelines, and reefs.

7 years ago

Protesters armed with signs fill the bleachers at Pine Belt Arena in Toms River, where the New Jersey Pinelands Commission held a public hearing on the Southern Reliability pipeline through Burlington and Ocean counties. (Emma Lee/WHYY, file)
Community
NJ Spotlight

BL England decision may doom N.J. pipeline but natural gas projects still on

The demise of the B.L. England power plant appears to doom a 22-mile gas pipeline through the Pinelands to the facility.

7 years ago

William Happer speaks with attendees at the 2018 Young Americans for Liberty New York City Spring Summit at the Teaneck Marriott at Glenpointe in Teaneck, N.J. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)
NPR
Science

Meet the White House’s new chief climate change skeptic

Over the past decade, William Happer has waged a fierce campaign aimed at debunking fears of global warming caused by emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

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
Courts & Law

Coalition asks federal judge to stop offshore seismic airgun blasting

A coalition of environmental advocacy organizations has asked a federal judge to block the commencement of seismic airgun blasting.

7 years ago

Recycling bins on Cuthbert Street in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Radio Times
Health

Burning plastic recyclables

Since China has stopped accepting America's plastic recyclables, one solution to dealing with the excess material has been to burn it in already-existing trash incinerators.

Air Date: March 1, 2019 10:00 am

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Tidal flooding in West Wildwood in late January 2016. (North Wildwood Police Department)
Down the Shore
Money

Study: Ocean City’s property values ‘hardest hit’ by sea level rise

Property values in Ocean City have eroded by more than a half-billion dollars because of sea level rise, a study by First Street Foundation and Columbia University has found.

7 years ago

A thermosolar power plant is pictured at Noor II Ouarzazate, Morocco, November 4, 2016. Picture taken November 4, 2016. (Reuters/Youssef Boudlal)
Politics & Policy
The Conversation

How a Green New Deal could exploit developing countries

Should this legislative concept be transformed from the hypothetical framework into actual policies, some of the solutions it engenders could make global inequality worse.

7 years ago

New Sunrise Movement student activists Abby Leddy (left) and Xavier Thomas outside Congressman Dwight Evan’s office. They spoke to him about his supporting the Green New Deal. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Science
PlanPhilly

Philly students call for Green New Deal citing spike in ‘heat days’

The only member of Pennsylvania’s delegation to support the resolution to date is Democratic Rep. Brendan Boyle from Northeast Philly.

7 years ago

Wardens from the New Jersey Forest Fire Service District B3 check the progress on a March 2013 prescribed burn in the Warren Grove Gunnery Range. Pictured from left: Chad Bozoski, George Jackson III and Steve Pratt. (Photo courtesy of George Gerber III, NJFFS)
Down the Shore
Community

Prescribed burning season underway in N.J.

A seasonal program that aims to mitigate forest fire risk is now underway throughout New Jersey.

7 years ago

The CDC will test residents around the New Castle Air National Guard Base who may have been exposed to PFAS, a group of chemicals that that may increase the risk of cancer.

(U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Robin Meredith)
Health

Possible chemical contamination near Delaware military installation

The CDC will test residents around the New Castle Air National Guard Base who may have been exposed to PFAS, a group of chemicals that that may increase the risk of cancer.

7 years ago

Cooling towers at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Read a draft of Pennsylvania’s nuclear bailout bill

The draft, obtained by StateImpact Pennsylvania, is being actively worked on by state lawmakers, and the specifics could change.

7 years ago

Energy Transfer, the parent company of Mariner East 2 pipeline builder, Sunoco, works at Snitz Creek in West Cornwall Township, Lebanon County after a drilling mud spill during the summer. (Marie Cusick / StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Energy Transfer CEO: ‘We’ve made mistakes’ in building Mariner East

Critics say promises won’t make the cross-state pipeline project any safer.

7 years ago

Physicist William Happer arrives for a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York, NY, USA on January 13, 2017.  (Albin Lohr-Jones/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images
National Interest
Politics & Policy

The Trump regime wants to believe the Earth is flat

The Trump regime intends to challenge the scientific consensus that climate change is a dire international emergency.

7 years ago

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