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‘Cartoon villainy’: Former regulators say EPA’s planned rollbacks would reverse 50 years of environmental progress

WHYY·March 14, 2025

The EPA administrator Lee Zeldin announced planned rollbacks of 31 rules to help promote industry and lower the cost of living. He didn't mention protecting the environment or public health.

Politics Pollution Trump on Earth

So beautiful but so terrible: Philly exhibit traces the ecology of fashion

WHYY·November 22, 2024

The exhibit at Drexel University spans fashions of the past to the waste of today's industry. “We have enough clothes on the planet to clothe the next six generations."

Culture

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A Delaware inventor wants you to consider raising bees

WHYY·June 21, 2024

A unique hive design aims to reduce the physical demands on beekeepers while drastically improving colony survival rates.

Food and Agriculture

A green woods with a path down the middle

Croydon Woods awarded for ‘environmental excellence.’ It’s a toxic Superfund site

WHYY·May 17, 2024

The Bucks County site, which has been under federal remediation for 30 years, is one of Pennsylvania’s last remaining coastal plain forests.

Conservation Wild Pennsylvania

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‘Bird Town’ borough is embracing its new designation as a bird-friendly place to live

WHYY·February 23, 2024

Media, near Philadelphia, became the latest Pennsylvania municipality to become a "Bird Town," a program that promotes community-based conservation.

Conservation Wild Pennsylvania Wildlife

Home repair and energy efficiency program resuscitated in Shapiro’s budget proposal

WHYY·February 9, 2024

The proposed budget includes $50 million for the Whole-Home Repairs program that provides grants for things like climate-friendly heat pumps and basic home repairs.

Climate Change Energy Politics

Climate activists bike hundreds of miles through Pa. to demand change

WHYY·September 28, 2023

Five riders and two support people rolled into Philadelphia as part of a 300-mile bike ride across the state organized by Pennsylvania Action On Climate.

Climate Change Environmental Justice

Pa.’s expanded environmental justice policy goes into effect this month

WHYY·September 21, 2023

The new policy applies to inspections and enforcement, as well as engagement. It goes into effect this month but is still open for comment.

Environmental Justice

How EPA’s proposed power plant rules could impact Pennsylvania

WHYY·May 19, 2023

The proposal comes as the dangerous impacts of human-caused climate change become increasingly clear.

Climate Change Energy Pollution

John Jarboe dressed in large colorful bow, on side of the ice rink

This Philly drag show tackles climate change — on ice

WHYY·March 3, 2023

The show is a camp comedy about climate change by the Bearded Ladies Cabaret, a queer arts organization in Philly.

Climate Change Culture

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EPA terminates $15M climate justice grant to Pittsburgh and Philly non-profits

Map shows what’s possible with federal clean energy investment in Pa.

Trump’s 2-year reprieve gives coal plants ‘a free pass to pollute’