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Pennsylvania

The Mariner East 2 pipeline has officially broken ground in the Delaware County town of Aston. The beginning stages of the pipeline includes clear cutting trees and preparing makeshift roads for the heavy machinery to traverse. (Emily Cohen for StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Mariner East 2: Sunoco’s public utility status trumps local regulation, court says

8 years ago

A closer look at the new congressional districts for Philadelhpia and its surrounding suburbs (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

House Democrats get a fair shot at picking up Pennsylvania seats

I wish to thank the Pennsylvania Supreme Court for providing a solid reason not to write today about the Trumpster fire.

8 years ago

 The Point Breeze refinery sits along the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. (Kellie McGinn/Philadelphia Energy Solutions)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Philadelphia Energy Solutions: A giant polluter looms over the lives — and health — of its neighbors

8 years ago

From the porch of her Palmerton farmhouse, Albertine Anthony looks out on the rolling hills of lower Carbon County. She believes the PennEast pipeline's proposed route through her 124-acre farm threatens her water supply.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Landowners brace for eminent domain loss in PennEast pipeline cases

Despite her alarm at the prospect of losing her spring water, Anthony says she’s not moving even if the pipeline is built on her land.

8 years ago

In this Dec. 23, 2010 file photo, a police officer arrests a man during a crackdown on illegal purchases of over-the-counter cold medications  (Jeff Roberson/AP Photo, File)
Community

As opioids steal the spotlight, meth seizures rising in Southeastern Pa.

In January, a joint investigation involving Bucks and Montgomery counties seized 350 pounds of crystal meth mailed to Pennsylvania by traffickers in California.

8 years ago

Congressional districts in Southeastern Pennsylvania as they were adopted in 2011 and then ruled unconstitutional by the Pa. Supreme Court in January 2018.  (Google Maps)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Outside expert advises Pa. Supreme Court in drawing congressional district map

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is expected to decide Monday where Pennsylvania’s congressional boundaries will fall for the next two election cycles.

8 years ago

A sign marks the path of the Mariner East 1 pipeline through Chester County. (Kim Paynter/WHYY)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Chester County township adds to local challenges on Mariner East 2 siting

The new board determined that the natural gas liquids pipeline is being built well within a “pipeline impact radius.”

8 years ago

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

Listen 3:29
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

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