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Environment

In this photo made on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013, a worker walks on top of a container of chemicals used in the making of a brine water that is then pumped below the surface in a hydraulic fracturing process to release natural gas from shale deposits at a gas well site in Zelienople, Pa. (Keith Srakocic/AP Photo)
Courts & Law
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Judge says Grant Township must pay $100,000 in legal bills after injection well dispute

This is a new setback to the Indiana County municipality in efforts to control oil and gas development in the region.

7 years ago

Crews in the middle of the Brandywine River work to remove a 115-year-old dam that was built to allow Wilmington water pipes to cross the river. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Community

115-year-old Brandywine Creek dam removed to upgrade water pipes, restore fish migration

Work to demolish a 115-year-old dam in the Brandywine Creek in Wilmington should help restore the habitat of the American shad fish.

7 years ago

Flames from a massive wildfire that consumed hundreds of wooded acres in Beachwood and Berkeley in April 2014. (Image: courtesy Jessica Bonelli via JSHN)
Down the Shore
Community

‘Critical’ wildfire danger in N.J. for Wednesday

Any fires that spark in New Jersey on Wednesday could quickly get out of control, forecasters warn.

7 years ago

Huntley & Huntley Energy Exploration's Midas Well pad, the first Marcellus shale gas well in the Pittsburgh suburb of Plum. (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Health
StateImpact Pennsylvania

DEP investigating gas well for water supply complaint in Pittsburgh suburb

It would be the first water supply impacted by drilling in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

7 years ago

US Steel's Clairton Coke Works.
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Officials fine U.S. Steel for Clairton emissions from 2018, note situation has been improving

It comes after two other significant fines last year for similar problems after inspectors noted an uptick in leaks of coke oven gas.

7 years ago

The New Jersey Forest Fire Service says the wildfire in a remote area near Spring Hill Road in Burlington County's Penn State Forest broke out early Saturday afternoon. (Courtesy of Amy Miller Shaman)
Community

N.J. fire that burned 11,000 acres in Pine Barrens ‘started by humans’

No injuries were reported in the weekend blaze in South Jersey, but massive clouds of smoke visible for miles put communities in the Pine Barrens and beyond on edge.

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. Sinkholes that opened in the area prompted the state's Public Utility Commission to order that an existing pipeline nearby, the Mariner East 1, be shut down until it could be determined that the sinkholes didn't threaten its safety. PUC on May 3 approved a re-start of Mariner East 1. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Chester County plaintiffs settle class-action suit with Sunoco over Mariner East

Sunoco denied the claims of negligence during Mariner East pipeline construction on Lisa Drive in West Whiteland Township, Chester County.

7 years ago

Crews are shown welding a pipeline connecting to a natural gas well in northern Pennsylvania. The Mariner East 2 plan would build two natural gas pipelines across southern Pennsylvania. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY
Politics & Policy
NJ Spotlight

N.J. Natural Gas wants to spend big on pipeline, other projects

New Jersey Natural Gas is seeking approval for investments that would increase residential customers’ monthly bills.

7 years ago

Climate scientists say the Pennsylvania can expect more precipitation as global warming continues. 2018 was the wettest year on record for Pennsylvania. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Poll shows Pennsylvanians’ concerns about climate change are increasing

The survey found 68 percent of respondents “definitely” or “probably” want the state to do more to address climate change.

7 years ago

Rendering of the Fusion Arena. (Courtesy of Comcast Spectator)
Radio Times
Lifestyle

Regional Roundup 4/1

On today's regional roundup: Philly's plan for an "Esports arena;" Camden program pays homeless people to make public art; microplastics in the Delaware River.

Air Date: April 1, 2019 10:00 am

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Gary Steinberg raises a hand to ask a question following a presentation by the Pennsylvania Department of Health on the findings of an initial study on the presence of chemicals found in local drinking water. (Kriston Jae Bethel for WHYY)
The Why
Health

Why researchers and regulators have more questions than answers about PFAS

PFAS, a class of toxic chemicals, are found in lots of everyday products from pizza boxes to dental floss. Why don't scientists know if they're safe?

Air Date: April 1, 2019

Listen 13:39
In this Aug. 1, 2018 photo 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. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Company reveals amount of toxic PFAS substitute it sent to plant in South Jersey

The company’s newly released report, which it sent to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, raises fresh concerns over the possible contamination of local drinking water.

7 years ago

A smoke plume over Toms River, New Jersey. (Courtesy of Michael Ocello)
Down the Shore
Community

South Jersey forest fire 75 percent contained, spreads across 10,000 acres

It is New Jersey’s biggest forest fire since 2007, according to a spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection.

7 years ago

The New Jersey Forest Fire Service says the wildfire in a remote area near Spring Hill Road in Burlington County's Penn State Forest broke out early Saturday afternoon. (Courtesy of Amy Miller Shaman)
Down the Shore
Community

Forest fire closes Route 72 in Burlington County, N.J.

A major forest fire has closed a state highway that links to the Jersey Shore, authorities say. 

7 years ago

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

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