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Environment

The walls of a scorched antique shop stand on Skyway after a wildfire burned through Paradise, Calif., on Friday, Nov. 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Community

Deadly fire leveled a California town in less than a day

Not a single resident of Paradise can be seen anywhere in town after most of them fled the burning Northern California community that may be lost forever.

7 years ago

Mariner East 2 pipeline construction along Zinns Mill Road in Lebanon County August 24, 2018. (StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Sunoco expects hybrid Mariner East 2 to start operating by year’s end

Construction and hydrotesting are ‘100 percent’ done, officials tell financial analysts.

7 years ago

Shawnee Rae, age 8, among a group of Native American activists from the Sisseton-Wahpeton tribe protesting the Keystone XL Pipeline in Watertown, S.D. in 2015.
NPR
Courts & Law

In a setback for Trump, judge blocks Keystone Pipeline construction

A U.S. district judge has issued an order blocking construction of the controversial transnational Keystone XL Pipeline until the State Department conducts further study

7 years ago

Down the Shore
Community

Monarch butterfly counts decrease in Cape May

Officials say they counted fewer numbers of monarch butterflies during their annual migration through Cape May in New Jersey this year.

7 years ago

One of the BillerudKorsnäs packaging redesign projects replaced the plastic casing around camping gear with cardboard. (Cassandra Profita/OPB)
NPR
Science

Beyond plastic bans: Creating products to replace it

The growing number of campaigns to ban plastic waste are putting pressure on companies to find alternatives – not just for straws, but for all kinds of plastic packaging.

7 years ago

Two young people speak at a rally Monday in Seattle. The Supreme Court said it would not stop the lawsuit that inspired this rally, along with others in Portland and Eugene, Ore.
(Elaine Thompson/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

Young activists can sue government over climate change, Supreme Court says

The trial could start as early as mid-November.

7 years ago

(Courtesy: Allen Harim)
Community

Agreement reached over Delaware poultry company wastewater violations

State environmental officials have reached an agreement with a southern Delaware poultry processing company over wastewater violations. ...

7 years ago

Three workers were burned, one critically, in an accident at the Delaware City oil refinery. (WHYY, file)
Community

3 workers suffer burns in latest accident at Delaware City refinery

One worker is in critical condition after the “release of a heated product under pressure.”

7 years ago

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Philadelphia's downtown skyline is visible above the Eastwick tree line. (Eastwick Friends & Neighbors Coalition)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

City to survey land in flood-prone Eastwick before soliciting developer bids

The vacant land in question sits in a 100-year-floodplain.

7 years ago

A year after Hurricane Maria touched down in September 2017, the island is still recovering. On Tuesday lawyers for the government admitted they had not yet overhauled the island's emergency response plans for the next major hurricane. (Angel Valentin/Getty Images)
NPR
Community

Government lawyer says Puerto Rico’s hurricane response plan ‘does not exist’

It was a stunning admission given that, early last month, officials announced that their newly overhauled plan was finally complete.

7 years ago

The site of the Revolution Pipeline explosion that occurred in September 2018. (Marcellus Air)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

DEP orders ETP to fix Revolution Pipeline erosion problems

Orders call for the company to cease some earth disturbance activity

7 years ago

Oregon State University oceanographer Jack Barth deploys a glider that will spend weeks at sea collecting data on everything from dissolved oxygen levels to temperature.
NPR
Science

Coastal pacific oxygen levels now plummet once a year

Hypoxia is a condition in which the ocean water close to the seafloor has such low levels of dissolved oxygen that the organisms living down there die.

7 years ago

Plastic garbage lying on the Aegean sea beach in Greece. (Milos Bicanski/Getty Images)
NPR
Community

European Parliament approves ban on some single-use plastics, reduction on others

The European Parliament voted on Wednesday to enact a complete ban on plastic drinking straws and disposable cutlery.

7 years ago

U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry answers questions during a media availability following a tour of Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018. (Susan Montoya Bryan/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Energy Sec. Perry stumps for ‘all of the above’ energy in Philadelphia, Camden

Perry spoke at a water conference and toured the Holtec International plant on the Camden waterfront.

7 years ago

Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, at the Shale Insight Conference in Pittsburgh. (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

EPA head says rollbacks will keep environment clean, economy up

Wheeler: Fed action not needed to lower CO2

7 years ago

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