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Environment

Exelon Corporation Three Mile Island nuclear generating station Unit 1 cooling towers in Londonderry Township, Dauphin County. May 22, 2017. (Dan Gleiter/PennLive)
Community

Public will never know truth behind Three Mile Island, anti-nuclear energy advocates say

"Three Mile Island is an accident without an ending," TMI Alert’s Eric Epstein said.

7 years ago

A drill worker covered in Marcellus shale, and drill cuttings seals off a well and cleans the blowout preventer at a Cabot Oil & Gas natural gas drill site in Kingsley, Pa. Washington County has nearly 1,700 Marcellus shale gas wells. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Health

State investigating potential cancer cluster in western Pa.; some residents fear an environmental cause

The health department says there have been four cases of Ewing sarcoma in the past decade in the Canon-McMillan School District.

7 years ago

A spiny dogfish. (NOAA image)
Down the Shore
Science

Spiny dogfish wash ashore at N.J. beaches

Authorities say dozens of spiny dogfish sharks washed up on beaches across southern New Jersey last weekend.

7 years ago

Freshmen Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has provoked a new debate over climate change with her Green New Deal. (Kevin Hagen/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Green New Deal vote sets up climate change as key 2020 issue

Senate Republicans will force a vote on the Green New Deal this week as part of an effort to turn the provocative climate change resolution into a wedge issue for 2020.

7 years ago

This Jan. 6, 2014 photo shows a section of the Pinelands region in Lakehurst N.J. On March 25, 2019, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection ordered five companies that make chemicals used to stain-proof clothing and make non-stick cookware to fund a plan to clean up contamination of the state's environment, including waterways, that have been tainted by the presence of the chemicals. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
Politics & Policy

New Jersey orders cleanup of clothing, cookware chemical manufacturers

The state Department of Environmental Protection ordered the manufacturers Monday to provide a detailed account of their use and discharge of so-called PFAS substances.

7 years ago

Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia, the Navy’s largest base, is endangered by sea level rise. (Courtesy of Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ernest R. Scott)
Politics & Policy
The Conversation

Veterans are concerned about climate change, and that matters

In addition to its potential effect on military infrastructure, climate change could pose threats to global security.

7 years ago

Artwork by Christina Chung. (Christina Chung for NPR)
NPR
Community

What makes people heed a weather warning … or not?

Even an unprecedented twister can be predicted. The issue is how people interpret these warnings.

7 years ago

Conservation groups hope to use $4.1 million to preserve and protect areas of the Delaware River Watershed similar to what’s been done here along the Wilmington Riverfront and the Christina River. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Money

25 Delaware River-area water quality projects get $4.1 million in federal funds

Water quality improvement projects in the Delaware River Watershed get $4.1 million under the new Delaware River Basin Conservation Act.

7 years ago

A waste site stretches toward a line of trees under a partly cloudy sky.
Community

Invasive species speeds up closure of popular Delaware yard waste site

Frequenters of the free-of-charge drop-off site must look for other options as the state prepares to return the Polly Drummond property to its natural state.

7 years ago

Gov. Tom Wolf visits Taggart Elementary School in South Philadelphia to stump for legislation that would tax natural gas extraction to pay for school improvements. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Gov. Wolf highlights Philly school conditions in severance tax push

Gov. Tom Wolf is once again pushing for a severance tax on Pennsylvania’s natural gas producers — this time by focusing on how the money could be used for schools.

7 years ago

File photo of minor tidal flooding in Seaside Park. (Courtesy of Dominick Solazzo)
Down the Shore
Community

Tidal flooding alerts up for the Shore

Widespread minor to locally moderate tidal flooding is likely along the Jersey Shore Thursday evening, forecasters say.

7 years ago

In this May 22, 2017, file photo shows the control room at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa. Forty years after Three Mile Island became synonymous with America's worst commercial nuclear power accident, the prospect of bailing out nuclear power plants is stirring debate at the highest levels of Pennsylvania and the federal government. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Science
PA Post

What will become of Three Mile Island’s nuclear waste if the plant closes?

"Nobody wants the spent fuel near them," said Don Hudson, who lives downstream from the defunct Maine Yankee plant.

7 years ago

A man throws a snapper onto a pile in a fish market in East Java, Indonesia. For certain snappers, a market preference for plate-size whole fillets is driving fishermen to target smaller fish. For some wild fish populations, this is a recipe for collapse. (Ed Wray)
NPR
Science

Why restaurant demand for smaller fish fillets is bad news for oceans

For certain snappers, in fact, a market preference for plate-size whole fillets is driving fishermen to target smaller fish. For some wild fish populations, this can be dire.

7 years ago

A railroad crossing is flooded with water from the Platte River in Plattsmouth, Neb. Record high floodwaters inundated regions of the Midwest following an intense winter storm and rapid snowmelt.
(Nati Harnik/AP Photo)
NPR
Community

Nebraska floods: 74 cities, 65 counties declare a state of emergency

Vice President Mike Pence visited Nebraska Tuesday to survey the damage caused by Midwest floods that have killed at least four and displaced hundreds.

7 years ago

In this Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016 photo, thousands of dead and decaying fish are washing ashore as they float up Waackaack Creek on the morning tide in Keansburg, N.J. State environmental officials say the scores of dead peanut bunker fish were likely chased into the Raritan Bay by other fish. Once there, they apparently were killed off by low levels of dissolved oxygen in the water. (Robert Sciarrino/NJ Advance Media via AP) (The Associated Press)(Robert Sciarrino/NJ Advance Media via AP)
Down the Shore
Science

Thousands of dead fish wash up in Shore town

State environmental officials say thousands of dead fish have washed up in a New Jersey shore community.

7 years ago

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