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Environment

You Bet Your Garden

Beneficial Bugs? Or Filthy Flies?

A listener wants to attract beneficial insects, but instead is beset by flies! On the latest You Bet Your Garden, Mike McGrath d ...

Air Date: August 3, 2018

Listen 48:50
Composer and educator Alfonso Fuentes plays a black Steinway grand piano under a spotlight in a dark and empty auditorium at Princeton University
NewsWorks Tonight
Education

Princeton University hosts artists, scholars from Puerto Rico

Princeton invited artist and scholars from Puerto Rico to work on their projects at the university campus during the summer.

7 years ago

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Transfer pipes carry liquified natural gas to and from a holding tank, seen in background, at Dominion Energy's Cove Point LNG Terminal in Lusby, Md., Thursday, June 12, 2014. Federal regulators concluded that Dominion Energy's proposal to export liquefied natural gas from its Cove Point terminal on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland would pose
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Trump’s plan for LNG exports to Europe may not have much impact in Pennsylvania

Liquified natural gas plays a significant role in the trade deal with the European Union, and the president wants Europe to buy less from Russia.

7 years ago

Oyster Creek was New Jersey's first nuclear generation station, opened in 1967. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community
NJ Spotlight

Sale of Oyster Creek could speed up decommissioning by decades

Environmentalists are happy that the nuclear power facility could be cleaned up faster than originally planned but are concerned about details.

7 years ago

Listen 4:32
Gregorio Pac Cojulun (left), and Dan Schupsky, an outreach specialist, stroll along one of the new sidewalks. (Meir Rinde/PlanPhilly)
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

Rain, rain flows away, no longer puddles at Malcolm X Park

As happens on many blocks around the city, heavy rains used to turn the southeast corner of Malcolm X Memorial Park in West Philadelphia into a deep puddle.

7 years ago

Heavy machinery on the beach in South Seaside Park in mid-July. (Image: Dominick Solazzo)
Down the Shore
Community

Community leader says he’s outraged after bulldozer plows through dune

Heavy machinery was captured on video expanding an existing access at the entrance to Midway Beach.

7 years ago

Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline construction in Lancaster County. (Marie Cusick / StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Wolf administration criticizes federal pipeline approval process

Tom Wolf’s administration is calling for more federal oversight on the buildout of new natural gas pipelines, including how they can facilitate greenhouse gas emissions.

7 years ago

Archaeology students from West Virginia University at a dig near a shale gas site in Marianna, Pa. (Reid R. Frazier/SateImpact Pennsylvania)
Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Family’s fight with driller illustrates legal loophole that exposes Native American, historical sites

Companies don't have to check for archaeological importance. One study showed dozens of sites were damaged or destroyed.

7 years ago

Listen 6:46
Elise Gerhart (left) reads a 2017 ruling about the environment from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court outside of the Huntingdon County Courthouse with her mother Ellen. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Ellen Gerhart, fighting pipeline on family’s land, jailed for allegedly violating court order

Sunoco says she interfered with workers. The 63-year-old's daughter said that isn't true.

7 years ago

A Cal Fire firefighter mops up hot spots after the Carr Fire moved through the area on Saturday in Redding, Calif. The fire is 5 percent contained. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
NPR
Community

Death toll in Northern California’s Carr Fire rises to 5

Firefighters continue to battle a massive wildfire in Northern California that's displaced at least 38,000 people since it started Monday.

7 years ago

American Littoral Society image.
Down the Shore
Community

Boat parade ferries ‘oyster babies’ to new bay home

A new batch of oyster babies are adjusting to life in the Barnegat Bay.

7 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight
Community

NewsWorks Tonight, July 27, 2018

Philadelphia ends a controversial contact with ICE. A family’s long fight to keep a natural gas pipeline off of their land. Analyst ...

Air Date: July 27, 2018

Listen 25:35
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You Bet Your Garden

Using Grass Clippings for Mulch

Is it ever right to use your grass clippings as a garden mulch?? On the latest You Bet Your Garden, we’ll bend ...

Air Date: July 27, 2018

Listen 48:09
A volunteer hauls a hose past flooded homes as he and others help pump water out Wednesday, July 25, 2018, in Tremont, Pa. Days of drenching rains are closing roads, sending creeks and streams over their banks and prompting some evacuations in central Pennsylvania. (Jacqueline Larma/AP Photo)
Community

Pa. officials preach caution, but say worst of flood likely over

One hundred and twenty five state roads are still flooded, and 2,900 people remain without power.

7 years ago

The Trump administration has indicated it intends to issue a proposal to halt Obama-era emissions targets. (David Goldman/AP Photo, File)
Courts & Law

Pa. prepares to sue over expected Trump vehicle emission changes

State Attorney General Josh Shapiro said if emissions standards are indeed rolled back, he plans to file suit against the federal government.

7 years ago

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