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Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.

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Environment

A new sinkhole that opened up on Sunday was surrounded by orange plastic fencing outside a suburban home at Lisa Drive in West Whiteland Township, Chester County.
(Eric Friedman/Provided)
Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Sunoco empties pipeline to deal with Chester County sinkhole

No natural gas liquids are flowing in Mariner East 1 anywhere in Pennsylvania, the PUC says.

8 years ago

Artist Diane Burko poses in front of an unfinished work at her Center City studio.
Arts & Entertainment

Environmental artist rediscovers Jewish roots of activism

Artwork depicting melting glaciers and dying coral reefs is on exhibit in a Philadelphia synagogue. It centers on the concept of tikkun olam, Hebrew for “repair the world.”

8 years ago

Listen 2:06
Salem Nuclear Power Plant as seen from the Blackbird Creek
Science

New Jersey looks to rejoin RGGI to tackle greenhouse gas emissions

The state Department of Environmental Protection is having an open hearing on two proposals that would allow New Jersey to rejoin the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

8 years ago

Listen 1:44
A naturally occurring ice disk that gained international fame appears to be freezing in place following a stretch of frigid weather, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019, in Westbrook, Maine. The giant ice disk on the Presumpscot River now has its own webcam. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Down the Shore
Community

Ice disk freezes out Shore man’s attempt to hack peace sign into it

A giant disk of river ice has proved too much for a Jersey Shore attention-seeker who tried to carve a peace sign on it.

8 years ago

A former GMO researcher explains how class plays into flawed perceptions of genetically engineered crops. (Image courtesy of Bigstock)
The Pulse
Science

Why opposition to GMOs is a First World privilege

How public mistrust in GMOs destroyed one scientist's dream of helping farmers in developing countries produce sturdier, higher-yield crops.

8 years ago

Listen 06:49
The Horsham Air Guard Station in Bucks County, Pa. where the use of PFAS chemicals in firefighting foam has been linked with contamination of local water supplies. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pa. might set maximum limits on a toxic chemical in drinking water. Some ask: What’s there to decide?

Activists want a new panel to regulate the chemicals in the absence of federal standards.

8 years ago

An iceberg melts in Kulusuk Bay, eastern Greenland, in this July 17, 2007, file photo.  The melting of the Greenland ice cap and its effect on the area around Greenland is one of the more immediate effects of climate change. (AP Photo/John McConnico, File)
Radio Times
Science

Climate change is real…now what?

Today, we'll talk about how an increasing number of Americans are worried about climate change, as well as a couple of small changes being proposed to stem it.

Air Date: January 24, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
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.

8 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.

8 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.

8 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.

8 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

8 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.

8 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.

8 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.

8 years ago

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