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Environment

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

N.J. fishing industry among country’s strongest

The New Jersey fishing industry is among the country’s most robust, generating billions in sales in 2016. That’s accor ...

8 years ago

Every summer, downy mildew spreads from Florida northward, adapting to nearly every defense pickle growers have in their arsenals and destroying their crops. (Bernd Settnik/Picture Alliance via Getty Images)
NPR
Science

Scientists are fighting for the stricken pickle against this tricky disease

With failed harvests, fewer growers are taking a chance on cucumbers.

8 years ago

Floods in Ellicott City, Maryland, pushed cars into a pile last May. This year has been a year of record rainfall for cities throughout the mid-Atlantic and Carolinas. (The Washington Post/Getty Images)
NPR
Science

2018 is now the wettest year on record for Washington and other cities

Dozens of other locations have reported record-breaking precipitation, including the cities of Baltimore, Philadelphia and Wilmington, North Carolina.

8 years ago

Nuisance tidal flooding in Seaside Park, N.J. (Dominick Solazzo)
Down the Shore
Community

Minor tidal flooding likely in some N.J. areas Sunday

Spotty to minor tidal flooding is likely in portions of the Jersey Shore Sunday, forecasters say.

8 years ago

Tuna, seen on display last year at a fish market in Mexico City. The World Trade Organization dealt Mexico a defeat on appeal Friday, dismissing the country's argument that labeling regulations in the U.S. violated WTO rules.
(Henry Romero/Reuters)
NPR
Politics & Policy

U.S. gets a big win in its long fight with Mexico over ‘dolphin safe’ labels

Authorities north of the border reject Mexican tuna products because they generally reject Mexican fishing techniques in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

8 years ago

A massive fire roars through a neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif., after a PG&E gas pipeline ruptured, killing eight people, in 2010. (Paul Sakuma/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

PG&E falsified gas pipeline safety records, regulators say

The investigation followed the gas pipeline explosion in 2010 that incinerated a neighborhood in San Bruno, just south of San Francisco.

8 years ago

Yellow markers show the right of way for the Mariner East pipeline in Lebanon County. (Marie Cusick/ StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

PUC panel sees ‘statewide concern’ with pipeline corrosion after ME1 leak

Investigators propose a ‘remaining life study’ for the aging pipeline.

8 years ago

Participants leave before the end of the final session of the COP24 summit on climate change in Katowice, Poland on Friday, Dec. 14. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
Politics & Policy

Nations at UN climate talks back universal emissions rules

One major sticking point during the talks was how to create a functioning market in carbon credits.

8 years ago

Collette Williams and her son SaVaughn, 13, live a few blocks from the Clairton Coke Works. (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Health
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Teen’s asthma frames town’s struggle with dirty air

Though it’s cleaner than in the 1970s, the plant is still one of the biggest sources of air pollution in all of Western Pennsylvania.

8 years ago

Downed trees mark the route of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline in Deerfield, Va., in February. A federal appeals court has blocked development of portions of the pipeline. (Steve Helber/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

Quoting ‘The Lorax,’ court pulls permit for pipeline crossing Appalachian Trail

The judges cited Dr. Seuss' The Lorax: "We trust the United States Forest Service to 'speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.'"

8 years ago

Natural gas wells in Springville Township, Pa.
(Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

DEP unveils proposal to reduce emissions from existing oil, gas wells

Pennsylvania environmental officials have come out with a plan to reduce leaks from thousands of the state’s oil and gas wells.

8 years ago

U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick has asked Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf for a thorough review of the environmental impact of renewed mining at the Rockhill Quarry in Upper Bucks County. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

Asbestos discovery at Upper Bucks quarry halts operations

U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick wrote to Gov. Tom Wolf, applauding the state government for ceasing operations at the site and asking for a “more thorough environmental review."

8 years ago

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Members of Philadelphia City Council listen to testimony at hearing of the Health and Human Services Committee. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

City Council hears concerns over impact of pollutants in at-risk neighborhoods

Philadelphia City Council held a hearing Wednesday on how environmental issues can disproportionately impact minority communities in at-risk neighborhoods in the city.

8 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

Retiring Shore congressman co-leads charge against airgun ocean blasting

A bipartisan group of federal legislators is opposing the Trump administration's recent decision to permit seismic airgun surveying off the Eastern seaboard. 

8 years ago

Honey bees at the entrance of a beehive. The bees fetch fresh air into the beehive. Thuringia, Germany, Europe Date: April 22, 2018 | usage worldwide Photo by: Klaus Nowottnick/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images
Radio Times
Science

Insect Armageddon

Guests: David Wagner, Thor Hanson Populations of insects are plummeting around the globe. Bugs are in such steep ...

Air Date: December 12, 2018 10:00 am

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