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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In 2007, Terry Engelder, a professor of geosciences at Penn State, calculated that trillions of cubic feet of natural gas could be recovered from the…
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Green energy businesses had been seeing growth, but the COVID-19 pandemic has changed that.“We’re all doing the best we can in the new normal here,” said…
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The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has told companies they can’t turn off customers’ utilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.The PUC’s action means…
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In her book, “Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore,” Elizabeth Rush takes readers around the country to see rising tides . Rush talks with…
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John Hecker pointed out the window of the truck as it passed oak, maple and birch trees in the Pennsylvania Wilds.Up ahead was a fork in the road.“That’s…
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About five years ago, doctors found high levels of lead in the blood of Manuel Ortiz’s oldest son. Ortiz and his wife were surprised. They say Manuel Jr.…
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The Wolf Administration says Pennsylvania will be getting tens of thousands of new pipelines over the next couple of decades. Recently we reported on how…
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This story began with a simple task: Let’s make a pipeline map!Everyone wants to know where all the new Marcellus Shale gas pipelines are or will be. The…
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On any given day Bob Deering doesn’t know how much trouble he’ll have getting to and from his home. He lives on a mountain in Lycoming County and he’s…