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Environment

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

This illustration provided by Carbon Engineering in October 2018 shows one of the designs of the company's air contactor assemblies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Carbon Engineering acting chief scientist David Keith, a Harvard University professor, said “in the long-term, carbon removal will make sense to reduce atmospheric carbon burden, but only once emissions have been brought near zero. (Carbon Engineering via AP)
Science

Report: Efforts to suck carbon from air must be ramped up

Last year the world put nearly 37 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the air, and emissions have been rising.

7 years ago

Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidates Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf, (left), and Republican Scott Wagner have not made addressing climate change a top priority. (Matt Rourke/ AP Photo)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Climate change: A crisis for humanity, but not a big deal in the Pa. governor’s race

Although Pennsylvania has a small share of the global population, it is an energy powerhouse that's a major source of harmful emissions.

7 years ago

Devin Puckett, along with Clyde and Saheir Beatty, empty a bucket of apples into a fruit grinder during the East Park Apple Festival at Woodford Mansion in Fairmount Park. (Kriston Jae Bethel for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

A rainy 2018 yielded soggy fall harvest, Philly growers say

2018 has been one of the wettest years on record for Philadelphia.

7 years ago

 Parker Preserve area in the Pinelands. (Photo courtesy of Pinelands Preservation Alliance)
Politics & Policy

DEP turns down plan for massive development in Pinelands

‘The struggle is not over,’ cautions one opponent of project for commercial space and thousands of houses in Barnegat Bay watershed

7 years ago

Beach Sweeps volunteers in South Seaside Park in 2011. (Photo: Dominick Solazzo)
Down the Shore
Community

Decoy owl, ‘strange metal lump’ among items found during massive beach trash sweep

More than 3,000 volunteers swept beaches from the Bayshore to Cape May County on Saturday as part of an New Jersey-based organization’s annual program.

7 years ago

A message displayed on a window of a motel room in Panama City, Fla., where survivors continue to live amid the damage from Hurricane Michael. Family and friends are still trying to locate loved ones who survived the storm. (David Goldman/AP)
NPR
Community

Crowdsourcing to find survivors of Hurricane Michael

CrowdSource Rescue allows people to report someone who is unaccounted for or needs help. It lists them on a map that rescuers can use for deployment purposes.

7 years ago

New Jersey officials are seeking to dredge nine navigation channels in the Barnegat Bay. (Courtesy of U.S. Army Corps)
Down the Shore
Community

Bay channel dredging is latest in N.J.’s safe navigation initiative

Crews will soon begin dredging channels in Ocean County to ensure safe navigation, the latest in a series of projects that began in 2014, state officials announced. 

7 years ago

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