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Each week Science Friday, hosted by Ira Flatow, focuses on science topics that are in the news and brings an educated, balanced discussion to bear on the scientific issues at hand.

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Environment

A large cooling tower and other buildings at the nuclear power site in Salem County can be seen near a farm in Lower Alloways Creek Township, N.J., in rural Salem County Nov. 13, 2007.  (Mel Evans, AP, file)
Money
NJ Spotlight

PSEG drives home vow to shutter nuclear plants unless public subsidizes them

The company maintains new filings with state demonstrate the case for up to $300 million in annual aid for three years, but most financial information has been redacted.

7 years ago

Solar panels on the roof of the building supplying energy to the AirTrain at Newark Liberty International Airport soak up the rays. A New Jersey lawmaker wants the state to aim for 80 percent renewable energy use by 2050. (AP file photo)
Money
NJ Spotlight

Will its own success sabotage the garden state’s solar sector?

Add up solar installations — deployed and in the pipeline — and New Jersey has reached the point which current subsidies expire — before a new program has been put in place.

7 years ago

In this June 30, 2018, file photo, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, (left), discusses his state budget deal with Democratic legislative leaders, as state Senate President Stephen Sweeney, (right), listens during a news conference in Trenton, N.J. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo, File)
Politics & Policy
NJ Spotlight

N.J. governor nominates two conservationists to Pinelands Commission

Murphy addresses concerns of leading environmentalists who had wanted Christie-era holdovers to be replaced.

7 years ago

A group of year old mussels that were grown in the team's lab inside the Philadelphia Water Works Mussel Hatchery. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Freshwater mussel hatchery at Bartram’s Gardens aims to provide natural filter for Pa. rivers, streams

Pennvest will invest $7.9 million into the mid-Atlantic hatchery.

7 years ago

In this July 25, 2018 photo US EPAs Peter Grevatt, Director of the Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water and Cosmo Servidio, Regional Administrator for the Mid-Atlantic Region, listen to members of the public comment during a PFAS Community Stakeholder Meeting, on in Horsham, Pa. In Horsham 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. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

New Jersey proposes PFAS regulations for groundwater; EPA regulations delayed by shutdown

New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection has taken a step toward cleaning up water contamination from an unregulated class of perfluorinated chemicals known as PFAs

7 years ago

Crews worked on Monday Jan. 21 to stabilize a new sinkhole that opened up at Lisa Drive, a suburban development in West Whiteland Township, Chester County where Sunoco operates its Mariner East pipelines. (Jon Hurdle / StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Mariner East pipelines: New sinkhole opens at Chester County site; Sunoco shuts line

A new sinkhole appeared late Sunday at a Sunoco pipeline site in Chester Co. where several earlier sinkholes led officials to halt construction because of safety concerns.

7 years ago

U.S. Steel's Clairton Coke Works (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh-area legislators want hearing on Clairton Coke Works

Officials want answers on Allegheny County’s response to pollution at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works after a Christmas Eve fire damaged air pollution controls at the plant.

7 years ago

US Steel's Clairton Coke Works (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Health
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Students report problems breathing after U.S. Steel fire

More kids in Clairton have reported problems with their breathing after a fire damaged pollution controls at a U.S. Steel plant there in December.

7 years ago

Mariner East 2 pipeline construction crews work in the backyards of homes on Lisa Drive in West Whiteland Township, Chester County, on May 2. (Marie Cusick/WITF)
Community

Chesco DA blasts Mariner East contractor’s crass threats directed at pipeline opponent

Complaint one of many district attorney has heard regarding bullying or harassment of residents by pipeline workers during the troubled cross-state project.

7 years ago

A Jersey Shore community is undertaking an innovation solution to a problem that has long plagued beaches: cigarette butts. (Big Stock photo)
Down the Shore
Politics & Policy

Butt out: N.J. beach, park smoking ban goes into effect

The law, which went into effect Wednesday, permits a designated smoking area of 15 percent at beaches. Smoking is still permitted in parking lots.

7 years ago

Public domain image.
Down the Shore
Science

No tsunami alert after earthquake off Maryland coast

A 4.7 magnitude earthquake struck off the Maryland coast Tuesday evening, according to the United States Geological Survey. 

7 years ago

A photo circa 1965 showing an outfall pier being built on the Schuylkill River, where it flows into the Delaware River. Prior to the Clean Water Act, little regulation existed to halt industrial pollution and raw sewage from flowing into the nation's waterways. (PWD archival photo)
Science

The death of the Delaware River

Industrial growth and raw sewage in the region in the 20th century killed aquatic life in much of the Delaware River and surrounding streams.

7 years ago

Listen 7:08
The Clean Water Act helped transform Philadelphia’s southwest sewage treatment plant near the airport. Before regulations, sewage discharges into the Delaware river represented some of the worst pollutants, leading to a lack of oxygen and fish in the river. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

How the Clean Water Act fixed the Delaware River’s pollution problem

A grassroots environmental effort in the '60s resulted in The Clean Water Act and major federal dollars were provided for the upgrades we see today.

7 years ago

Listen 6:36
People now use the Delaware for recreation, like these visitors to Spruce Street Harbor Park. Prior to the Clean Water Act, the Delaware River was so polluted no one would have considered basking so close to it. But the regulation has not been updated for decades, and scientists say hidden dangers to fish and wildlife still exist. (Brandon Eastwood for WHYY)
Science

The Delaware River’s invisible threats

Hidden beneath what looks, and smells, like much cleaner water are potential new dangers like plastics, pharmaceuticals and the impacts of climate change.

7 years ago

Listen 7:25
A view of the Ben Franklin Bridge and Delaware River (Ashley Hahn/PlanPhilly, file)
Politics & Policy

Timeline: The Delaware River and the Clean Water Act

Reviving the Delaware River took decades and came about through a combination of social need, public outcry, and political will. Here, we look at the river's history.

7 years ago

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