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Environment

In this June 2, 2017 file photo, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt speaks in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo, file)
PBS
Politics & Policy

Trump tells embattled EPA head: ‘We’ve got your back’

8 years ago

In this April 23, 2010 photo, a Chesapeake Energy natural gas well site is seen near Burlington, Pa., in Bradford County. (Ralph Wilson/AP Photo)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Poll: Public concern grows over natural gas industry’s environmental impact

8 years ago

Gas is pumped into vehicles at a BP gas station in Hoboken, N.J. in 2016.The Obama administration moved to nearly double fuel-economy standards by 2025, but the EPA now is moving to weaken them.
NPR
Politics & Policy

EPA moves to weaken landmark fuel efficiency rules

The Trump Administration today moved to weaken fuel economy standards for automobiles, saying the current ones are inappropriate and wrong.

8 years ago

Workers and contractors for Sunoco Pipeline begin an ‘additional investigation’ of geological conditions behind homes at Lisa Drive, West Whiteland Township, Chester County where the company has been drilling for construction of the Mariner East 2 and 2X pipelines. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Community

Sunoco to residents near sinkholes: We’ll pay to relocate you during investigation

Sunoco is offering to relocate residents at a Chester County site where drilling for the Mariner East pipelines has caused sink holes to open up in recent weeks.

8 years ago

The female Anopheles mosquito is a spreader of malaria. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)
NPR
Science

What if a drug could make your blood deadly to mosquitoes?

Imagine this: A pesky mosquito sips some of your blood. Hours later, the blood-sucker drops dead, poisoned by the very blood it just slurped down.

8 years ago

The Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River at the Delaware Water Gap. (Catalina Jaramillo/WHYY)
Community

Pa. group calls for higher penalties for Clean Water Act violators

A report by PennEnvironment ranks Pennsylvania second in violations nationwide.

8 years ago

This Feb. 10, 2009 file photo shows some of the more than 1,100 old fuses and small anti-aircraft shells that have been found as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers searches for any remaining World War I era munitions along the Atlantic Ocean in Surf City, N.J. A century after World War I ended, munitions from that and other wars continue to surface on beaches around the United States, usually during beach replenishment projects when they are sucked from the ocean floor and pumped ashore onto the sand, or exposed by strong storms. (Mel Evans/AP Photo, File)
Community

A century after WWI, munitions still making way onto beaches

Items ranging from tiny fuses to full-scale mines are displaced by beach replenishment projects, sucked from the ocean floor and pumped ashore, or by strong storms.

8 years ago

Tom Paino's house has been called the ugliest house in Queens. (Courtesy of Tom Paino)
The Pulse
Science

Rising above flood risk

For houses vulnerable to flooding, elevation can be a solution. But how do you raise a home that’s connected to others?

8 years ago

Listen 12:58
A natural gas worker on a rig in Susquehanna County in 2012. A StateImpact/Franklin & Marshall poll out Thursday shows a majority of registered voters, 69 percent, favor policies that would promote renewable wind and solar power over fossil fuel sources like coal and natural gas. (Susan Phillips/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Politics & Policy

How perceptions about natural gas production, climate change have changed

New polling finds most Pennsylvanians are concerned about climate change.

8 years ago

Listen 4:00
The Svínafellsjökull glacier in Iceland has retreated dramatically in recent years, revealing a visible sign of the changing climate. Since the early twentieth century, with few exceptions, glaciers around the world have been retreating at unprecedented rates. The melting ice contributes to global sea level rise. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Poll: Most Pennsylvania voters say climate change causing problems now

Party affiliation and political ideology continue to play a big role in people’s views.

8 years ago

Protesters outside the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Washington, DC. The agency has announced plans to limit public comments on pipeline projects if the comments are submitted outside the deadline. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Politics & Policy

FERC’s critics, and two commissioners, say new comment policy will hurt landowners

FERC says it will limit public interventions in its pipeline review process if they are submitted outside the prescribed time.

8 years ago

At the Steamfitters Union Local 449 near Pittsburgh, apprentices practice pipe welding in the union's new training facility. Photo: Reid R. Frazier

At the Steamfitters Union Local 449 near Pittsburgh, apprentices practice pipe welding in the union's new training facility. (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
NewsWorks Tonight
Politics & Policy

In Pennsylvania, unions throw political weight behind natural gas

Nationwide, fewer than 5 percent of workers in oil, gas, and mining are unionized, about half the national average.

8 years ago

State Sen. Art Haywood, D-Philadelphia, listens to his constituents lobby him about renewable energy proposals. (Susan Phillips/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Politics & Policy

Lobbyist, lawmakers entwined in complex relationship: Is it influence peddling, or essential?

There are more than 1,200 registered lobbyists in Harrisburg.

8 years ago

Philadelphia Energy Solutions, the largest refiner on the East Coast, was relieved of some of its obligations to buy renewable fuel credits in an agreement with the EPA. (Peter DeCarlo)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Politics & Policy

PES bankruptcy plan approved by court

8 years ago

A sign on farmland near Palmerton in northeast Pennsylvania shows local opposition to the PennEast pipleline. In order to build the pipeline, PennEast Pipeline Co. is trying to seize through eminent domain some lands that are under farmland preservation.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

N.J. files in federal court to stop PennEast from condemning protected land

8 years ago

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