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Environment

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

Denise McCarthy told a Department of Environmental Protection hearing that the Mariner East pipelines would endanger her grand nephew, Jack, whose picture she held up as she spoke. DEP held the public meeting to hear comment on Sunoco’s proposed permit modifications in West Whiteland Township, Chester County. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Community

Residents urge DEP to deny Mariner East pipeline construction changes; unions argue for approval

Nearly all of the 33 speakers at the two-hour hearing argued that the natural gas liquids pipeline represents a risk to public safety.

8 years ago

Towers carrying electricity in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania from the Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, a nuclear power plant in Delta, Pennsylvania. (Stan Honda / AFP/Getty Images)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Community

PJM will study ‘fuel security’ of electric grid as natural gas use rises

The grid operator for 65 million customers in the mid-Atlantic says it will look at whether it’s becoming more susceptible to outages.

8 years ago

Dead vegetation around a conventional well site in Warren County indicates a possible brine spill. (Pa. Dept. of Environmental Protection)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Courts & Law

Pa. House panel OKs bill to gut environmental standards for conventional drillers

The controversial bill would eliminate many environmental requirements for Pennsylvania’s oil and gas industry.

8 years ago

The Continental wildfire burning along the Berkeley/Beachwood border on April 24, 2014. (Photo: JSHN contributor Jennifer Miller‎)
Down the Shore
Community

Fires that spark Monday could quickly get out of control

Any fires that develop Monday could quickly get out of control and become difficult to contain at most of the Jersey Shore, forecasters say. 

8 years ago

FILE PHOTO: This Nov. 10, 2016 aerial photo released by NASA, shows a rift in the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen C ice shelf. (JOHN SONNTAG/NASA VIA AP)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Penn State researchers join international effort to study Antarctic ‘doomsday’ glacier

8 years ago

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