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Pennsylvania

Migrants run from tear gas launched by U.S. agents, amid photojournalists covering the Mexico-U.S. border, after a group of migrants got past Mexican police at the Chaparral crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
The Why
Politics & Policy

Tears in Jamestown: A Pennsylvania company’s role in the global tear gas trade

Why a western Pa. company that's become a major player in the global tear gas trade is also embroiled in a legal battle with neighbors of its manufacturing facilities.

Air Date: December 3, 2018

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A building is seen from afar.
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Pa. Supreme Court rules employers legally responsible for protecting workers’ sensitive data

In a recent ruling, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said that employers are legally responsible for protec ...

8 years ago

An aerial view of Mariner East 2 pipeline construction, adjacent to the Fairview Golf Course in Lebanon County August 24, 2018. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Courts & Law
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Mariner East pipelines: Judge reviews request for immediate shutdown

Residents want the lines stopped while judge considers whether to halt them permanently.

8 years ago

Little Blue Run coal ash pond, on the Pennsylvania-West Virginia border. (Google Earth)
Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Leaky coal ash pond seeks new pollution permit from DEP

The largest coal ash pond east of the Mississippi is asking the state for a new pollution discharge permit. Little Blue Run, is on the Pennsylvania–West Virginia border.

8 years ago

The Pennsylvania Society gala is a longstanding tradition. Here, onetime Society president Edward Gerrity Jr. presents the organization's medal to Pittsburgh Steelers founder and president Arthur Rooney Jr. in 1975, during the Society's 77th annual dinner at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Dec. 13, 1975. At right is William F. Buckley Jr., editor of the National Review, who was guest speaker. (Ray Stubblebine/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Pa. politicos take annual trip to NYC for glitz, networking, and cocktails

The very first Pennsylvania Society gathering was in 1899.

8 years ago

Exelon's Three Mile Island plant is scheduled to prematurely close in September 2019. The company has been lobbying for help from the state to keep it open. (Exelon/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania nuclear plants could be saved, report says, if lawmakers act

The 42-page report published Thursday by Pennsylvania’s bipartisan Nuclear Energy Caucus was nearly two years in the making.

8 years ago

State Rep. Vanessa Lowery Brown D-Philadelphia, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Pennsylvania state lawmaker gets probation in bribery case

Democratic Rep. Vanessa Lowery Brown, of Philadelphia, was sentenced to 23 months of probation and ordered to repay the money to the state attorney general's office.

8 years ago

A Delaware County district office for state Sen. Tom Killion is seen in this photo taken on Wednesday Nov. 28, 2018. (Ed Mahon / PA Post)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Can a moderate Republican like Tom Killion survive in the Philly suburbs?

After Democratic successes in southeastern Pa., he returns to a state Senate seat that will be a political target

8 years ago

Activists gather outside the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 1, 2017, to protest President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the Unites States from the Paris climate change accord. (Susan Walsh/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pa. lawmakers continue climate change fight after Trump rolls back clean power plan

The Trump administration decided to roll back President Obama’s clean power plan in August.

8 years ago

John Fetterman, Pennsylvania's newly-elected lieutenant governor, isn't going to live in the taxpayer-funded residence the commonwealth provides him. He's still figuring out what he wants to do with it. (AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

What to do with a soon-to-be empty, taxpayer-funded mansion?

Pennsylvania's new lieutenant governor says it would feel "inappropriate" to move into the residence that comes with his job.

8 years ago

Listen 5:04
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at his office in Harrisburg, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Gov. Wolf creates commission to study redistricting

The governor on Thursday signed an executive order to create the Pennsylvania Redistricting Reform Commission.

8 years ago

Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane (AP file photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kane reports to Montco jail

In August 2016, a jury convicted Kane of all nine charges, including perjury and obstructing the administration of law. Afterward, she lost her law license and resigned.

8 years ago

The stacks of the Homer City Generating Station in Homer City, Pa., are shown in this 2014 file photo. (Keith Srakocic/AP Photo)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Climate petition calls on Pa. to cut emissions through cap-and-trade system

Among states, Pennsylvania is the third biggest emitter of carbon. The petition sets in motion a legal process that entails a response from the state.

8 years ago

A rally against violence took place June 11, 2018 on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

State watchdog releases recommendations for reducing gun violence

After a year-long review of firearm safety in the commonwealth, Pennsylvania's Auditor General has released a report with 12 recommendations for reducing gun deaths.

8 years ago

State Rep. Tina Davis, a Democrat, knocks on doors in Bucks County in her attempt to win Pennsylvania's 6th Senatorial District. (Jim Saksa/Keystone Crossroads)
Politics & Policy

Davis concedes her Senate race, but challenges to Pa. election policy

Three weeks after the midterm election, Pennsylvania's last undecided race is over.

8 years ago

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