Watershed

Mariner East 2: Texts raise questions about Wolf administration role in permitting process

8 years ago

Cayleigh Dorsey was the youngest to stand by the podium at the DRBC hearing. She’s one year old, and was held by her grandmother Alicia Dorsey, from South Philadelphia.

StateImpact Pennsylvania

Delaware River Basin fracking ban hearings center on environment, economy

8 years ago

Sunoco/ETP's Mariner East 2 construction continues this week in West Whiteland Township, Chester County. Despite DEP ordering construction to stop, Sunoco can continue to work on welding pipes. That work is regulated by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, not DEP.

StateImpact Pennsylvania

Delaware County Council looks into risk assessment of Mariner East 2 pipeline

8 years ago

Sam Lemheney, senior vice president of shows and events for the Philadelphia Horticultural Society introduces

Rope bridge to add adventure to Philadelphia Flower Show

The annual Philadelphia Flower Show opening March 2 will highlight the beauty and science of water.

8 years ago

Roy Christman (left) and William Kellner protested plans to build the PennEast natural gas pipeline at a FERC ‘listening session’ near Jim Thorpe, Pa. in 2016. FERC has now approved the project. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact Pa.)

StateImpact Pennsylvania

FERC approves PennEast, saying it would supply needed natural gas

8 years ago

Delaware

Delaware residents tell Washington they oppose offshore drilling

The goal of a public meeting in Dover was to listen to local experts and residents.

8 years ago

Trees cut on a Susquehanna County property in March 2016 to make way for the proposed Constitution Pipeline. The company says it will fight a FERC order upholding New York State's denial of a permit for the project.

StateImpact Pennsylvania

After new setback, Constitution Pipeline says it will fight FERC order

8 years ago

Jerome Shabazz runs the Overbook Environmental Education Center in Philadelphia. Shabazz says he has used federal dollars from the EPA's environmental justice office to raise awareness about water quality and toxins like lead.

StateImpact Pennsylvania

MLK’s environmental justice legacy threatened by Trump administration cuts

Philadelphia

8 years ago

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State Impact

Water study finds some Pa. radium levels exceed tough California limit

Public Health

More than 3.4 million Pennsylvanians are supplied by drinking water containing radium that exceeds a strict California standard, which advocates say should replace a looser fe

8 years ago

The Ben Franklin Bridge crosses the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Camden. Salt levels are increasing in Philadelphia's rivers.

Study: Rivers getting saltier, compromising water quality

Public Health

The study looked at decades of streamwater data at U.S. Geological Survey monitoring sites.

8 years ago

FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2016 file photo, Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez addresses a large rally in Asbury Park, N.J.,

StateImpact Pennsylvania

Trump proposes oil and gas drilling off the Atlantic coast

8 years ago

A Mariner East 2 construction site in Lebanon County. Sunoco says it expects to have the pipeline in service by the end of the second quarter, 2018. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact Pennsylvania)

StateImpact Pennsylvania

DEP suspends all construction on Mariner East 2 pipeline

8 years ago

$The Delaware River basin: Officials say proposed new rules would strengthen protections against contamination from any fracking waste water brought into the basin. (KATIE COLANERI/STATEIMPACT PENNSYLVANIA)$

StateImpact Pennsylvania

DRBC’s new rule would protect against frack-waste contamination, officials say

8 years ago

Delaware

Delaware offers guidance on new coastal zone-conversion process

The 13 recommendations are the first step in determining how the state will issue coastal zone conversion permits to allow industrial sites to be repurposed.

8 years ago