Environment
With deadline looming, Senators call for revamp of National Flood Insurance system
In a deeply partisan period in Washington, New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez has joined a bi-partisan group of high-profile senators calling f ...
8 years ago
Why the Red Knot bird lives and dies by what happens here
Everything is in place along the Delaware Bay beach on an early late Spring morning. The net is carefully folded, the cannons set at the ...
8 years ago
On ‘Radio Times’: How climate change became more abstract to voters
On Friday’s Radio Times, host Marty Moss-Coane discussed Trump’s decision, as well as the views that American voters and politicians ...
8 years ago
The end of the Shore as we know it
The Jersey Shore is in danger, but instead of forcing it to adapt to what we want it to be and what we remember, we should adapt to what it will eventually become.
9 years ago
This farmer wants to give animals a better life — and death
Hear what a ‘kinder slaughter’ sounds like. As farmer Jon McConaughy wades through his flock of 400 sheep, lambs bleat, seemin ...
9 years ago
Listen 5:58Clean water tax proposal in Delaware
Even with the support and the technology to clean the state’s very polluted waterways, Delaware just doesn’t have the money. ...
9 years ago
ListenSolar co-ops help homeowners harness the sun’s energy
Neighbors are teaming up to tackle the challenge of switching to sun-sourced electricty. Sal Fede’s house isn’t much t ...
9 years ago
Listen 4:06This Washington state dam is trying to be fish-friendly
The people at Wanapum Dam are trying to balance the interests of fish and clean power. The Wanapum Dam is massive. It̵ ...
9 years ago
Listen 3:42Mimicking nature, an artificial leaf can recycle CO2
An artificial leaf created by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago captures greenhouse gas and puts it to work again. ...
9 years ago
Listen 4:19Why don’t more farms convert poop to power?
Imagine 7,000 gallons of cow manure. It smells. Brett Reinford’s dairy farm in Central Pennsylvania has 700 cows, and that& ...
9 years ago
Listen 6:04Renewable energy jobs bring new life to old coal towns
In some former coal towns, residents continue to hold tight to that economy and identity. Reporter Elizab ...
9 years ago
Listen 6:42Pa. gubernatorial hopeful speaks for natural gas advocates in Harrisburg
More than a dozen county commissioners from Pennsylvania’s northern tier are working to organize around an issue that directly affe ...
9 years ago
Class action lawsuits on behalf of 130,000 in Bucks, Montco merge, seek medical testing
Up to 130,000 people may be included in a consolidated class action suit, filed on behalf of residents living near military air stations ...
9 years ago
Troubled oil recycler cited for hazardous waste violations
A Wilmington oil recycling plant fined last month by a federal judge for environmental crimes was issued a cease and desist order Monday ...
9 years ago
Legal recognition lags as expected ‘climate refugee’ population grows
People migrate for many different reasons – war, persecution, poverty. Here’s another reason: climate change. A 2015 ...
9 years ago
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