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Environment

Jerome Shabazz runs the Overbook Environmental Education Center in Philadelphia. Shabazz says he has used federal dollars from the EPA's environmental justice office to raise awareness about water quality and toxins like lead.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

MLK’s environmental justice legacy threatened by Trump administration cuts

8 years ago

Pennsylvania's wind industry boomed through 2012, but development of new wind farms has slowed in the years since. (vaxomatic via Flickr)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

A surge, then a fade for Pennsylvania’s wind industry

More than two dozen wind farms popped up across the state leading up to 2012, but only one in the years since.

8 years ago

StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Judge fines environmental attorneys $52,000 for ‘frivolous’ injection well suit

The case is centered on a 2014 ban and a subsequent municipal charter adopted by Grant Township that banned fracking wastewater injection projects.

8 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight

NewsWorks Tonight, January 12, 2018

As Philadelphia considers creating safe injection sites, a Federal crackdown could follow. In the waning days of his governorship, Chris ...

Air Date: January 12, 2018

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power plant
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Settlement requires coal plants to get permits with tighter pollution controls

The settlement pertains to 10 coal-fired power plants around the state that have been operating on expired water pollution permits for years — in one case for 17 years.

8 years ago

BILL HUGHES / AP PHOTO/BLOOMSBURG PRESS ENTERPRISE
State Impact
Science

Water study finds some Pa. radium levels exceed tough California limit

More than 3.4 million Pennsylvanians are supplied by drinking water containing radium that exceeds a strict California standard, which advocates say should replace a looser fe

8 years ago

FILE - In this Friday, May 9, 2003 file photo, angler Andy Hails, of Montgomery, Ala., checks the fishing lines on his boat as he trolls the Gulf of Mexico near a natural gas well off the Alabama coast near Gulf Shores, Ala. President Obama announced his new offshore drilling policy Wednesday, March 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)
Politics & Policy

Delaware threatens legal action against offshore drilling plan

State Attorney General Matt Denn sent a letter to U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to formally object to the federal plan to allow oil drilling off Delaware’s coast.

8 years ago

The Pulse
Community

Detroit’s urban farms: engines of growth, omens of change

As more farmers choose Detroit as a place to put down roots, some are wondering what the future of urban agriculture look like.

8 years ago

Listen 7:34
Isa Betancourt, an entomologist at Drexel University’s Academy of Natural Sciences, collects bugs. (Alan Yu/WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

How animals adapt (and maybe even evolve) to live in cities

Mice, rats, mosquitoes, lizards, and other animals are adapting to live in environments created by humans.

8 years ago

Listen 8:29
U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey wants the state to be exempted from a Trump administration plan for expanded offshore oil and gas drilling. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
Politics & Policy

N.J. wants out of Trump plan for offshore drilling

U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has removed Florida’s waters from consideration for expanded offshore oil and gas drilling — and New Jersey wants the same exemption.

8 years ago

Sunoco/ETP's Mariner East 2 construction continues this week in West Whiteland Township, Chester County. Despite DEP ordering construction to stop, Sunoco can continue to work on welding pipes. That work is regulated by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, not DEP.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Despite DEP order to halt Mariner East 2 construction, some work is still allowed

When it comes to anything other than earth disturbance or water crossings, the agency doesn’t have jurisdiction.

8 years ago

Mariner East 2 construction site on Shepherd Road in Edgemont Township, Delaware County. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Report: Mariner East pipelines could have a $9 billion financial impact

Sunoco/Energy Transfer Partners, which is building the $2.5 billion pipeline, paid for the report.

8 years ago

The Ben Franklin Bridge crosses the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Camden. Salt levels are increasing in Philadelphia's rivers.
Science

Study: Rivers getting saltier, compromising water quality

The study looked at decades of streamwater data at U.S. Geological Survey monitoring sites.

8 years ago

 The Obama administration set a goal to cut carbon emissions by power plants by 30 percent by 2030. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)
Politics & Policy

Delawareans denounce Trump proposal to end Clean Power Plan

The only public hearing scheduled by the EPA to discuss the decision to end the Clean Power Plan was held in West Virginia, so Delaware leaders held their own hearing.

8 years ago

Oyster Creek Generating Station in Forked River. (Exelon Corporation, file)
Science

Normal operations resume at nation’s oldest nuclear plant

Unusually low tides and high winds impacted the water levels in its intake canal.

8 years ago

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