StateImpact Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania is a collaboration among WPSU, WITF, WHYY and The Allegheny Front. Reporters cover the fiscal and environmental impact of Pennsylvania’s booming energy economy.
Local support for StateImpact Pennsylvania comes from the Benkovic Family Foundation of State College.
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Recent measurements from a climate pollution-sensing airplane show oil and gas sites are leaking methane at four times the rate reported to federal regulators.
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A coalition of environmental, faith, and economic development groups is calling for the federal government to make it easier to access disaster relief after flooding.
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Pennsylvania College of Technology, the nonprofit Energy Efficiency Alliance, and the immigrant rights group CASA teamed up to create Building Green Futures. This pilot program in York graduated its second class of energy efficiency workers, who may help fill a growing need.
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Federal tax credits meant to drive investment to energy communities and low income areas are working, according to recent analyses, but those communities may not be seeing results yet.
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Commonwealth Court is stopping Pennsylvania’s effort to join a cap-and-trade program targeting power plant emissions.
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A team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh found children living near shale gas activities in Southwest Pennsylvania had a higher risk of developing lymphoma. But the group found no association between oil and gas activity and other childhood cancers, including Ewing’s sarcoma.
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A new study found higher levels of radioactive materials in rivers and streams near municipal wastewater treatment plants that handled runoff from landfills that accept fracking waste from Pennsylvania.
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A team at Penn State received a $25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study reduction in dairy farm methane emissions using “climate-smart” practices.
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Engineers at Penn State are trying to figure out the relationship between flooding in Middletown, Pennsylvania and rainfall rates, soil moisture and streams that were paved over decades ago.
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State College Community Land Trust has a program designed not only to help people afford a home, but to renovate the home to be as energy-efficient as possible.