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Environment

You Bet Your Garden

Protecting Plants from Winter, Deer & Wabbits

What’s the best way to protect your plants from deer, rabbits, mice and voles–and what’s so bad about ‘cleaning t ...

Air Date: November 3, 2017

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Science

Abandoned

What happens when we step away from people and places?

Air Date: November 3, 2017

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Coal Hill, a pile of coal on the outskirts of Trevorton, in Central Pennsylvania, is a testament to the old industry here and a reminder that companies didn't clean up when they finished mining. (Irina Zhorov/WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

New ideas for abandoned mine lands

A bill aims to address abandoned mine lands with a focus on economic development. Proponents see it as a way to imagine a more sustainable future for old coal country.

8 years ago

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 The Delaware Water Gap on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River in Pahaquarry Township. (Warren Westura/AP Photo, file)
Science

N.J. DEP sets nation’s strictest limit on chemical in drinking water

PFOA has been linked to cancer, high cholesterol, and developmental problems in young children

8 years ago

Construction of the Mariner East 2 pipeline in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. Environmental groups have asked a judge to revoke the permits issued by DEP to Sunoco.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Plaintiffs ask judge to revoke ‘illegal’ Mariner East 2 permits

8 years ago

A woman poses for a professional photo
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Pennsylvania’s biggest environmental group is getting a new CEO

Jacquelyn Bonomo is succeeding Larry Schweiger as the leader of PennFuture. Schweiger is retiring.

8 years ago

Picturesque landscape, mountain and bay
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Pennsylvania’s environmental rights amendment is back from the dead

John Dernbach, director of the Environmental Law and Sustainability Center at Widener University sat down with StateImpact to discuss.

8 years ago

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StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

PUC’s West Goshen ruling cheers advocates for local control over pipelines

The commission voted unanimously on Thursday to uphold a judge’s ruling that prevented Sunoco from building the valve and associated equipment on private land.

8 years ago

An oil rig rises up from green grass into a clouded blue sky
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Marcellus Shale boom cuts costs for Pennsylvania ratepayers

Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale gas boom has significantly cut energy costs for consumers across the state, according to a new study released Friday.

8 years ago

You Bet Your Garden

Cold clime? Bury your figs ALIVE!

What’s the best way to protect figs in climes where winter gets too cold? On the latest episode of You Bet Your Garden, host M ...

Air Date: October 27, 2017

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(Chuck Snyder for WHYY)
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‘We were scared to death’ — 5 years later, Sandy’s impact in Delaware

Delaware dodged the brunt of Superstorm Sandy, but the storm highlighted the state’s vulnerability to high winds and heavy rain.

8 years ago

Before and after photos of a Sandy-devastated New Jersey shore town
Politics & Policy

Lessons from Superstorm Sandy inspire N.J. playbook for disaster recovery

The book will bring back some tough memories for victims and first responders, but Gov. Chris Christie says it also highlights what New Jersey has accomplished.

8 years ago

NRDC study says heatwaves are becoming more frequent in the U.S. . (Big Stock photo)
Science

NRDC: Global warming making heatwaves hotter and more common

If it seems as if summers are getting hotter, they are — at least from the perspective of more days when people are exposed to extreme ...

8 years ago

An overhead view
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Future in limbo for coal ash site

A Greene County coal ash landfill won’t be receiving any more coal waste until December, at the earliest.

8 years ago

A Norfolk Southern freight train hauling coal makes it way through downtown Pittsburgh Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017.
StateImpact
Science

PJM says plan to subsidize coal, nukes, ‘not workable’

8 years ago

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