Energy & Environment
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Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY
Push is on for national PFAS drinking water standard
“PFAS is a sinister and pervasive threat to our families’ health, a drag on local, state and national economies, and a problem that will not go away on its own.”
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Emma Lee
Chester activists denounce a new Philadelphia Union-Subaru partnership as environmental injustice
A press release says the steam generated at an incinerator in Chester “will turn the turbines to produce electricity for the Philadelphia area,” but some residents fear they will pay the costs.
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Rachel McDevitt
Planned solar project near Gettysburg denied key permit
Four Mount Joy Township supervisors on Thursday deadlocked on motions to grant or deny a conditional use permit to the 75-megawatt solar project from NextEra Energy.
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Donald Eggen/DCNR
Pennsylvania sprays for gypsy moths in 19 counties, hoping to bring down a spike in the leaf-eating insect
Trees can handle some gypsy moth caterpillars, but too many mean a tree can lose too much foliage and could die.
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Courtesy of Western Pennsylvania Conservancy
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy sells land along Clarion River for the Allegheny National Forest
The conservancy said it’s an important strip of land to protect along the Clarion, a National Wild and Scenic River which is coming back from two centuries of logging and other heavy industry.
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Emma Lee
Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery demolition to take four years, new owner Hilco says
After a video call with the company that’s redeveloping the PES site, some members of an environmental justice group said they still had questions.
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CREDIT ANNE DANAHY / WPSU
Going carbon negative and equity in energy among topics at Penn State ‘Energy Days’ conference
The annual conference brought together hundreds of scientists, researchers, attorneys and experts with a goal of finding ways to address climate change and other energy-related challenges.
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Forecasters expect a busy 2021 Atlantic hurricane season
While 2021 is expected to be above average, forecasters say it won’t be as bad as 2020.
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Matt Rourke
State using insecticide on invasive spotted lanternflies
It’s a new strategy that state officials are using to try to slow the spread of the invasive pest. The state Department of Agriculture said Friday that crews using backpack sprayers and truck-mounted spray equipment are spraying the bugs along railways, interstates and other transportation rights-of-way.
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Mariner East pipeline construction leaves hundreds without drinking water in Delaware County
Pipeline construction has been disrupting residents’ lives since November, according to the management at Glen Riddle Station apartments in Media.
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Keith Srakocic
Report shows rebound for natural gas as production, prices rise
The Independent Fiscal Office reports the state’s average natural gas price from January to March was 64 percent higher than the same time last year.