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Pennsylvania

Environmental groups at a rally against Shell's Beaver County petrochemical complex in Pittsburgh. (Reid Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

DEP extends comment period for Shell’s ethane pipeline

The DEP will also hold public hearings in each of the three counties the pipeline route traverses: Washington, Allegheny, and Beaver counties.

8 years ago

Robert Brown, a cancer patient, meets with Dr. Van De Beek at the Keystone Shops. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Science

Southeast Pennsylvania’s first medical marijuana dispensary opens

Chief medical officer of new Pennsylvania dispensary is hoping doctors will begin recommending medical marijuana for patients instead of more addictive opioids.

8 years ago

Listen 1:55
As part of a research effort in 2016, scientists from Carnegie Mellon use mobile labs to detect methane leaks from the natural gas industry. (Reid Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Environmental group: Methane pollution higher than Pa. thinks

Scientists at the Environmental Defense Fund calculated Pennsylvania’s Marcellus shale industry is emitting twice as much methane as companies are reporting.

8 years ago

Dave Ritchie, a plumber by trade, lives in a self-made shack in the Pennsylvania woods. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Community

Short-term housing, wraparound services help Bucks cut homeless rate by 20 percent

A combination of factors explains the decline, with a shift toward rapid-rehousing programs perhaps playing the biggest role, according to experts.

8 years ago

(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Court will now decide fate of Pa. congressional map — as Wolf, Republicans can’t find compromise

The Pa. Supreme Court will now decide the shape of the state’s 18 congressional districts, as Democratic ...

8 years ago

On Jan. 31, when Jose “Ivan” Nuñez Martinez and Paul Frame showed up in Philadelphia for a mandatory interview to adjust Martinez's immigration status, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested him. (Provided)
Courts & Law

Will Chesco man’s arrest at green card interview scare off undocumented immigrants trying to legalize status?

On Jan. 31, when Jose Nuñez Martinez showed up in Philadelphia for a mandatory interview to adjust his status, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested him.

8 years ago

Listen 1:30
A man walks down a hall toward the light of the Capitol rotunda, in Harrisburg, Pa.
Politics & Policy

Midnight deadline looms for new Pennsylvania congressional maps

Competing proposals to redraw Pennsylvania’s congressional districts in a high-stakes gerrymandering case are rolling in ahead o ...

8 years ago

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This undated photo shows Richard O'Rourke of Warrington, Pa., a former senior analytical chemist for Merck & Co. charged with causing or risking catastrophe, theft, receiving stolen property and recklessly endangering another person. Prosecutors say O'Rourke stole potassium cyanide from a laboratory at the pharmaceutical firm to use for pest control at home, but poured it down a suburban Philadelphia storm drain Dec. 15, 2017, when he learned there was an investigation. (Montgomery County District Attorney's Office via AP)
Courts & Law

Chemist charged with taking cyanide, dumping in suburban Philly storm drain

Reached at his home on Wednesday morning, O'Rourke said didn't want to comment. A message seeking comment from his lawyer wasn't returned.

8 years ago

A man with a set of maps heads to a federal courthouse in San Antonio last year for a redistricting trial. Texas is one of three states with cases before the Supreme Court in redistricting. (Eric Gay/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Where redistricting fights stand across the country

Even as Democrats and Republicans spend 2018 vying to win key races around the country, a larger legal battle underway this year could reshape the American political map.

8 years ago

StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

13,500 Pa. homes still without safe heating source this winter

Data released Wednesday by Pennsylvania’s Public Utility Commission shows there are fewer homes without a utility heating service this winter compared to last year.

8 years ago

David B. Thornburgh, president and CEO of the Committee of Seventy, says the ultimate goal of the project is to reinvigorate how Pennsylvanians think about representative democracy. (Image courtesy of University City Science Center)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

New group asks: Can Pa. citizens play their way to better district maps?

Draw the Lines is making professional digital mapping tools available to the public and creating a competition for mapmakers.

8 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight
Community

NewsWorks Tonight, February 13, 2018

Pennsylvania Governor Wolf rejects the first proposal for a new state congressional map. The effect of the opioid crisis is seen in the l ...

Air Date: February 13, 2018

Listen 15:19
Future vision (Courtesy BigStockPhoto)
Philly Parenting
Lifestyle

The future is now

My youngest daughter went through a brief phase last year of constantly reminding us that we were always living in the future. She’d sa ...

8 years ago

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

What will Sunoco’s $12.6 million Mariner East 2 penalty be spent on?

The Department of Environmental Protection’s penalty for dozens of permit violations over the last year was among the largest ever handed out by the agency.

8 years ago

Gov. Tom Wolf, left, gives his budget address at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Chris Knight)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Wolf administration rejects GOP congressional map proposal [updated]

The interactive map above shows the boundaries of Pennsylvania’s 18 congressional districts as propos ...

8 years ago

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