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Sports in America explores stories that shape athletes and fans alike. Each week, David Greene hosts in-depth conversations with people across the world of sports  – from the star who hits the game winner to the millions of us whose lives are touched by the game.
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Sports in America

Sports in America explores stories that shape athletes and fans alike. Each week, David Greene hosts in-depth conversations with people across the world of sports – from the star who hits the game winner to the millions of us whose lives are touched by the game.

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Environment

Residue from tobacco smoke can end up in indoor air even in nonsmoking spaces. (Prawitr Sae Wa Ni/EyeEm/Getty Images)
NPR
Science

Tobacco smoke residue can become airborne again indoors

Drexel researchers suggest that after becoming gaseous again, smoke residue compounds can attach themselves to tiny air particles that come inside through an HVAC system.

8 years ago

Mariner East 2 pipeline construction crews work in the backyards of homes on Lisa Drive in West Whiteland Township, Chester County, on May 2. (Marie Cusick/WITF)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Courts & Law

Sunoco at PUC hearing: No alternative to building ME2 in Chesco

Sunoco rejected a state senator’s demand that it halt construction of the Mariner East 2 pipeline in Chester County.

8 years ago

Patrick McDonnell, secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection, announces
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Courts & Law

Pa.’s Volkswagen settlement money to go toward cleaner vehicles, engines

Pennsylvania will use the $118 million it received in a settlement with Volkswagen to fund grants and rebates for cleaner vehicles and engines.

8 years ago

Stoneleigh Gardens is the newest preserve from Natural Lands. Formally the estate of the Haas Family, the gardens and grounds will open to the public in May 2018. Many of the structures are over 100 years old. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Finding Natural Lands in the suburbs with opening of Main Line garden

For more than 60 years, the Natural Lands organization has worked to preserve open space and connect people to the natural world.

8 years ago

Listen 3:47
An environmental group says it will sue Cheswick Generating Station in Springdale, Pa., accusing it of violating its air pollution permit. In a letter to the plant’s owner, the Sierra Club says Cheswick is allowing soot and coal ash to fall on the surrounding community. (Reid Frazier/State Impact)
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Sierra Club says it will sue Cheswick power plant over air pollution

8 years ago

Three Mile Island nuclear plant is scheduled to be dismantled between 2034 and 2044. (Joanne Casarro/WITF)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Community

As nuclear power loses ground to natural gas, environmentalists are torn: Are the risks worth saving it for climate’s sake?

8 years ago

Woodlands fire (NJ Forest Fire Service)
Politics & Policy

Risk of wildfires is high in New Jersey

Wildfire danger usually remains high until around Memorial Day.

8 years ago

First
Science

Preserving Our Water: How We Use the Delaware Watershed

Farm to faucet Welcome to the Riverwalk along the Christina River in Wilmington. It’s one of many rivers, cr ...

Air Date: May 4, 2018

Members of the Newport Rowing Club make their way down the Christina River near Wilmington. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
First
Community

Delaware rowers see urban river in a different light

Spend an afternoon on the Christina River with the Newport Rowing Club, and you'll see how these students see the water in a different light.

8 years ago

Tree clearing for construction of the Mariner East 2 natural gas liquids pipeline at site in Delaware County. DEP has issued more than 50 violations to Sunoco during the past year of construction. The agency recently fined the company for additional drilling mud spills. (Emily Cohen for StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Courts & Law

DEP hits Sunoco with another fine for Mariner East 2 pipeline construction

The Department of Environmental Protection fined Sunoco/Energy Transfer Partners an additional $355,622.

8 years ago

Canadian glaciologist Roy (Fritz) Koerner working on a glacier in April, 1983. (Image courtesy of Mark Serreze)
The Pulse
Science

Looking for climate change answers in the melting north

As Arctic ice caps warmed, scientists — believers and skeptics — came together to seek answers.

8 years ago

Listen 5:23
Chris Bolden-Newsome puts new seedlings into a row. (Alan Yu/WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

Indigenous traditions get science backing

Scientists are learning from farmers and traditional healers — and documenting what powers their success.

8 years ago

Listen 8:22
Mariner East 2 pipeline construction crews work in the backyards of homes on Lisa Drive in West Whiteland Township, Chester County, on May 2. Sinkholes that opened in the area prompted the state's Public Utility Commission to order that an existing pipeline nearby, the Mariner East 1, be shut down until it could be determined that the sinkholes didn't threaten its safety. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Community

PUC safety officials recommend restart of Mariner East 1 after inspection

Safety inspectors are recommending that Sunoco’s Mariner East 1 pipeline be restarted.

8 years ago

An Alewife Mussel expells its larva, known as Glochidia, which looks like a combination of air bubbles and cloudy milk. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Science

With nation’s first city-owned mussel hatchery, Philly employing bivalves in battle to improve water quality

Freshwater mussels function as nature’s water treatment plants. Each animal can filter up to 600 gallons of water per month. And when w ...

8 years ago

Listen 4:57
Scott Reynolds, owner of Express Transmission in Beaver County, shows an array of gas cap adapters. The adapters are used as a part of Pennsylvania's vehicle emission testing program. (Amy Sisk/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Courts & Law

Pa. N.J., Del., join suit over plan to scrap car emission standards

California and 16 other states sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its plans to scrap standards on vehicle greenhouse gas emissions.

8 years ago

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