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Environment

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The Pulse
Science

In Banff, design helps critters safely cross the highway

A hidden world of pathways leads wild animals safely across busy roads, keeping ecosystems connected even as human use fragments and disturbs them.

8 years ago

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Tommy Fisk cuts down a black oak outside Eminence, Missouri on Dec. 14, 2017
The Pulse
Science

Did logging help reclaim Missouri wilderness?

Since the 1950s, a timber company has used conservation-driven logging to balance productive use and wild forests.

8 years ago

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StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

DEP fines natural gas company $1.7M for drilling violations

8 years ago

The Pennsylvania Capitol building at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Politics & Policy

Hearing will scrutinize use of money in special environmental funds

8 years ago

Trees cut on a Susquehanna County property in March 2016 to make way for the proposed Constitution Pipeline. The company says it will fight a FERC order upholding New York State's denial of a permit for the project.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

After new setback, Constitution Pipeline says it will fight FERC order

8 years ago

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

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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

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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

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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

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