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Environment

In this Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018 file photo, plumes of smoke rise from Europe's largest lignite power plant in Belchatow, central Poland. After several years of little growth, global emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide surged in 2018 with the largest jump in seven years, discouraged scientists announced Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP Photo)
Science

Climate reality check: Global carbon pollution up in 2018

The Global Carbon Project uses government and industry reports to come up with final emission figures.

7 years ago

Kensington Avenue and F streets is rated a “4” on Philadelphia’s Litter Index.
Radio Times
Community

Philly’s litter problem

Guests: Ryan Briggs, Nic Esposito, Mike Newall, Leonard Stewart Philadelphia has a litter problem. Neighborhoods ...

Air Date: December 5, 2018 10:00 am

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The first snowfall of 2015 in Ocean Beach 2 on January 6. (Photo: JSHN contributor Shane Skwarek‎)
Down the Shore
Community

Light snow on tap for a portion of the Shore

A quick hitting system will deliver light snow to a portion of the Jersey Shore on Wednesday, forecasters say. The National Weathe ...

7 years ago

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

U.S. Steel claims air pollution order could cost it $400 million

Allegheny County says the order is necessary to get the region's air within federal pollution limits.

7 years ago

Crabs like these, caught off the coast of Alaska, have been affected by the neurotoxin domoic acid because of algae blooms in recent years, which makes them unsafe to eat (Michael Melford/Getty Image).
NPR
Courts & Law

Fishermen sue big oil for its role in climate change

Fishermen are suing oil companies for allegedly concealing from the public the knowledge that burning fossil fuels could have catastrophic impacts on the biosphere.

7 years ago

Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale  (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Money
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania’s top fiscal watchdog to look at state response to climate change

State Auditor General Eugene DePasquale is planning a special report examining Pennsylvania’s response to climate change.

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)
Politics & Policy

Delaware opposes U.S. effort to search for oil beneath ocean surface

The National Marine Fisheries Service has awarded permits to five marine contractors to conduct the tests in the Atlantic Ocean between Delaware and Central Florida.

7 years ago

A power plant near Katowice, Poland, the host city for a major global climate conference that began on Sunday. It is the most important climate meeting since the 2015 Paris climate agreement was signed. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
NPR
Science

High stakes as International Climate Conference begins

A major international climate conference kicked off Sunday in Poland.

7 years ago

Aegean Rebreath founder George Sarelakos (center) hands a netted bag of marine litter to volunteers on the main pier of the Greek island of Poros. (Joanna Kakissis for NPR)
NPR
Science

Meet Greece’s marine trash collectors diving to keep their sea beautiful

Marine litter is a global problem that can seem overwhelming.

7 years ago

An aerial view of Mariner East 2 pipeline construction, adjacent to the Fairview Golf Course in Lebanon County August 24, 2018. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Courts & Law
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Mariner East pipelines: Judge reviews request for immediate shutdown

Residents want the lines stopped while judge considers whether to halt them permanently.

7 years ago

Little Blue Run coal ash pond, on the Pennsylvania-West Virginia border. (Google Earth)
Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Leaky coal ash pond seeks new pollution permit from DEP

The largest coal ash pond east of the Mississippi is asking the state for a new pollution discharge permit. Little Blue Run, is on the Pennsylvania–West Virginia border.

7 years ago

After an earthquake on Friday, a car is trapped in a crumbled section of off-ramp from Minnesota Drive, a major road in Anchorage, Alaska.
(Nathaniel Herz/Alaska Public)
NPR
Community

Magnitude 7.0 earthquake shakes Alaska, damaging roads

A tsunami warning was temporarily issued for coastal regions of Cook Inlet and the Southern Kenai Peninsula, but it has since been canceled.

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
Politics & Policy

Feds authorize seismic surveys for Atlantic Ocean drilling

The Trump administration is authorizing the use of seismic air guns to find oil and gas formations deep underneath the Atlantic Ocean floor.

7 years ago

(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
Radio Times
Science

Climate change: the talks, the costs, and the consequences

Guests: Jean Chemnick, Robert Kopp, Stephen Pacala The UN climate change conference in Katowice, Poland starts Mo ...

Air Date: November 30, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 48:58
A commercial scallop fishing boat enters the Manasquan Inlet in Point Pleasant, N.J.  (Wayne Parry/AP Photo, File)
Down the Shore
Health

Movement grows to establish seafood ‘gleaning’ program in N.J.

The Cape May County Board of Freeholders is the latest legislative body to support a program that would allow the New Jersey fishing indu ...

7 years ago

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