Energy & Environment
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Susan Phillips
Neighbors and anglers cry foul over Sunoco’s pollution of Chester County trout stream
The discharge is not toxic, but it can hurt stream life. And people who live near the work site are fed up with a project one says moves ‘full steam ahead’ no matter the consequences.
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Emma Lee
Cool for the spring: Pennsylvania park programs are open again
Outdoor and in-person park programs have resumed and are limited to 40 participants per program.
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Paul Sancya
‘Green New Deal’ leaders see Biden climate plans as a victory, kind of
The Green New Deal was never a hard-and-fast policy proposal; it was a nonbinding resolution that broadly called for an overhaul of the economy intended to benefit workers and the environment.By Danielle Kurtzleben/NPR -
Increasing rain, aging infrastructure lead growing number of municipalities to adopt stormwater fees
Supervisors in one Centre County township recently passed a stormwater fee, but not everyone thinks it was needed.
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Courtesy Plug Power
Pennsylvania’s first green hydrogen plant planned for Lancaster County
Green hydrogen is seen as a possible solution for industries with hard-to-cut emissions, like shipping and aviation
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Evan Vucci
Biden’s climate-focused infrastructure plan geared to curb U.S. carbon emissions
Environmental groups cheered the plan, which calls for spending on everything from renewable energy to plugging old oil and gas wells that emit methane.
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Reid Frazier
Alerted by high COVID ‘activity,’ state health officials visited Shell’s Beaver County ethane cracker
Largest construction site in the country had over 100 cases in December; photos show mask policy not always followed.
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Courtesy of Ted Auch/FracTracker Alliance
Injection wells exist to hold fracking wastewater — but the water can move. Here’s how
If the chemical-laced water reaches the surface, it can cause problems. One expert says it would be hard to totally prevent that from happening.
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Julio Cortez
Once imperiled, America’s bald eagle populations are soaring
The number of bald eagles in the lower 48 states has quadrupled since 2009, according to a new survey. The findings are a bright spot in an otherwise troubling picture for American birds.
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Reid R. Frazier
Gas drilling firms defeat Pennsylvania’s anti-trust lawsuit
Pennsylvania’s highest court has delivered a victory for natural gas exploration firms, ruling that the state attorney general’s office doesn’t have authority under state law to sue them on anti-trust grounds over their mineral rights-leasing practices.
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Richard Ellis
Brood X: The rise of the 17-year cicadas
If you’re in the eastern part of the United States, get ready to be surrounded by these little critters.
By Madeline K. Sofia and Thomas Lu/NPR