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Environment

Two elephants play in a field in southern Kenya earlier this year. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images)
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Politics & Policy

Trump administration quietly decides — again — to allow elephant trophy imports

In a memo dated March 1, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in place of the Obama-era blanket ban, the agency will consider importation permits "on a case-by-case basis."

8 years ago

Bruce Mansfield Power Station in Shippingport, Pa. (Reid Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Fatal gas leak at Pittsburgh-area power plant draws OSHA fines

Kevin Patrick Bachner, 34, and John Michael Gorchock, 42, both of Pittsburgh, died Aug. 29 at FirstEnergy’s Bruce Mansfield Power Station after inhaling toxic gas.

8 years ago

The spotted lanternfly is spreading through Southeast Pennsylvania. It was spotted for the first time in the United States in Berks County. (Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture)
Science

Invasive insect spreads beyond Pennsylvania farms and orchards to backyards

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will send $17.5 million in emergency funds to Pennsylvania to prevent the spotted lanternfly from spreading further.

8 years ago

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Building in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

EPA restores funding to news outlet covering Chesapeake Bay

The EPA agreed to restore $325,000 in funding to the Bay Journal, a print and online news outlet covering environmental issues related to the Chesapeake Bay.

8 years ago

A natural gas power plant under construction in Bradford County, Pa. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Proposed natural gas power plant in Berks County gets set of permits from DEP

The Department of Environmental Protection has OK’d several permits for a proposed natural gas power plant in Berks County.

8 years ago

The 2018 Philadelphia Flower Show theme Wonders of Water inspired the main exhibit rainforest theme. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Arts & Entertainment

Philly Flower Show taking deep dive into water

The annual Philadelphia Flower Show gets its feet wet in environmental issues surrounding water.

8 years ago

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Large crane operations were suspended in Philadelphia for the day because of high winds. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

Nor’easter slams region, knocking down trees and snarling travel

Philly officials suspend crane work, ask public to prep for high winds.

8 years ago

Ryan Zinke in East Bethlehem Township, Washington County. (Reid Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
NewsWorks Tonight
Science

Zinke comes to Pa. to talk abandoned mine cleanup

Ryan Zinke, President Trump’s Interior Secretary, came to Western Pennsylvania to tout the federal government’s abandoned mine cleanup program. It was an appropriate setting.

8 years ago

(U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

How this reporter’s #NoDAPL photo wound up in the Russia investigations

Never did I imagine a photo I took would be used by Russian trolls to try to manipulate the pipeline debate.

8 years ago

Daniel Raimi, author of the newly released book
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Author answers hot-button questions on fracking, including climate impact

As Pennsylvania’s gas boom helps propel the United States away from coal-fired power, one energy researcher says the impact on climate change will be a wash.

8 years ago

A backhoe clears land for construction of the Mariner East 2 pipeline in Delaware County in early 2017. (Emily Cohen/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Environmental groups seek injunction to halt Mariner East 2 pipeline construction

Several environmental groups have asked the Commonwealth Court for an injunction to halt Sunoco/Energy Transfer Partners Mariner East 2 pipeline construction.

8 years ago

This photo made available by NASA shows Hurricane Harvey over Texas on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, seen from the International Space Station. (Jack Fischer/NASA via AP)
Radio Times
Science

Exit Earth

Guests: Michio Kaku Physicist and futurist MICHIO KAKU theorizes ...

Air Date: February 26, 2018

Listen 49:26
Hibernating toads are making their annual leap to breeding grounds — a bit ahead of schedule (WHYY, file)
Science

Early spring peepers might be trouble for rest of food chain

Recent unseasonably warm weather has lured some frogs out of hibernation early. Herpetologists worry what that might mean for them — and other animals.

8 years ago

Listen 2:14
A sign protesting the proposed PennEast Pipeline route in Carbon County, Pa. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

FERC order effectively denies appeals of PennEast approval, critics say

Federal regulators have effectively denied a request to reconsider their approval of the planned PennEast Pipeline, the agency’s critics say.

8 years ago

A stream that starts on this Pennsylvania farm,  eventually becomes drinking water for 100,000 Delaware residents. (Gary Lindstrom/WHYY)
Community

Farm to faucet, enlisting Pa. farmers to keep Delaware’s water clean

A coordinated effort is working to keep Delaware’s water clean starting at the source across the border in Pennsylvania.

8 years ago

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