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Pennsylvania

Protesters outside the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Washington, DC. The agency has announced plans to limit public comments on pipeline projects if the comments are submitted outside the deadline. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Politics & Policy

FERC’s critics, and two commissioners, say new comment policy will hurt landowners

FERC says it will limit public interventions in its pipeline review process if they are submitted outside the prescribed time.

8 years ago

At the Steamfitters Union Local 449 near Pittsburgh, apprentices practice pipe welding in the union's new training facility. Photo: Reid R. Frazier

At the Steamfitters Union Local 449 near Pittsburgh, apprentices practice pipe welding in the union's new training facility. (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
NewsWorks Tonight
Politics & Policy

In Pennsylvania, unions throw political weight behind natural gas

Nationwide, fewer than 5 percent of workers in oil, gas, and mining are unionized, about half the national average.

8 years ago

State Sen. Art Haywood, D-Philadelphia, listens to his constituents lobby him about renewable energy proposals. (Susan Phillips/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Politics & Policy

Lobbyist, lawmakers entwined in complex relationship: Is it influence peddling, or essential?

There are more than 1,200 registered lobbyists in Harrisburg.

8 years ago

A man speaks with campaign signs visible behind him.
Politics & Policy

Even in absence, Stack dominates Pa. lieutenant governor debate

Four Democrats vying to unseat Mike Stack of Philadelphia promise a better working relationship with Gov. Tom Wolf.

8 years ago

Philadelphia Energy Solutions, the largest refiner on the East Coast, was relieved of some of its obligations to buy renewable fuel credits in an agreement with the EPA. (Peter DeCarlo)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Politics & Policy

PES bankruptcy plan approved by court

8 years ago

Cows from a dairy farm in Central Pennsylvania. (Dani Fresh for WHYY)
Health

As milk prices fall, dairy farmers in Pennsylvania seek mental health support

Milk prices have been falling for several years because supply is outpacing demand. Milk prices are so low, some farmers are losing money every day.

8 years ago

U.S. Rep. Ryan Costello, who represents Pennsylvania's 6th District, is dropping his re-election bid. (AP file photo)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Politics & Policy

Costello the latest Philly-area Rep. to drop re-election bid

Chester County U.S. Rep Ryan Costello is reportedly withdrawing from his re-election bid.

8 years ago

Conor Lamb, the Democratic candidate for the March 13 special election in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District
Politics & Policy

GOP’s congressional stronghold is Democrats’ source of hope

It's been seven head-spinning months.

8 years ago

Marianne and Rick Atkinson with their dog Spot, on their property in Clearfield County. (Susan Phillips/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Wastewater well opposed by some Pa. residents secures state permit

Marianne Atkinson of Brady Township said her family’s water well is 900 feet from the proposed injection site.

8 years ago

Teenagers take turns jumping into the Musconetcong river just below the Asbury Mill Dam. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Federal budget includes $5M for Delaware River clean up

The $1.3 trillion spending bill signed by President Donald Trump on Friday unexpectedly brought good news for environmentalists.

8 years ago

View Finders
Arts & Entertainment

Dance partners: Philly students with disabilities learn tap from professionals

Tapping into trust and friendship, dancers ready their performance for Art-Reach’s 2018 Cultural Access Awards.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas G. Saylor, a Republican, has called the push for impeaching his Democratic colleagues “an attack upon an independent judiciary.”(WHYY file photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

GOP leaders throw cold water on plan to impeach Pa. high court justices

Some Pennsylvania House Republicans urged impeachment after the Democratic-majority state Supreme Court declared the state’s congressional map unconstitutional and redrew it.

8 years ago

Scott Reynolds, owner of Express Transmission in Beaver County, shows an array of gas cap adapters. The adapters are used as a part of Pennsylvania's vehicle emission testing program. (Amy Sisk/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Could some Pa. counties scrap the annual vehicle emissions test? A study aims to figure that out

Emission tests are required in 25 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties.

8 years ago

This 2011 file photo shows a farmhouse in the background framed by pipes connecting pumps where the hydraulic fracturing process in the Marcellus Shale layer to release natural gas was underway at a site in Claysville, Pa. (Keith Srakocic/AP Photo)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Report: Severance tax proposal could cost Pa. mineral owners millions

“States that levy a natural gas severance tax allow those costs to be treated like a post-production cost,” IFO director Matthew Knittel wrote.

8 years ago

In this stock photo, black and white Holstein dairy cows are in their stalls in Penn State's research barn.
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Pa. dairy farms scrambling due to major contract termination

One of the nation’s largest dairy distributors is ending its contract with dozens of Pennsylvania dairy farms at the end of May.

8 years ago

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