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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.
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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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 John Augustine of the Marcellus Shale Coalition, a gas industry trade group, testifies at at hearing in Williamsport. (Katie Colaneri/StateImpact Pennsylvania)

Pa. DEP seeks input on overhaul of drilling regulations

Five years into Pennsylvania’s shale gas boom, the state is overhauling environmental regulations for drillers and changing the way ...

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 Fairmount resident Robert King tracks freight trains coming into Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

‘Oil trains’ rumble into Philly, bringing Dakota crude, new jobs and safety concerns

Philadelphia is at the center of a new industrial boom. A visible sign of that are the long trains snaking through the city, bringing cru ...

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Extreme humidity can set off smoke alarms

It has been insufferable lately— hot and sticky enough to set off smoke alarms. The Philadelphia region has been especially mugg ...

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A migrating bird survives a collision with a Center City sky scraper.
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A little bird in a big city

A migrating bird makes an unexpected stopover in Philadelphia after crashing into a Center City high rise.

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 This Magnolia soulangeana blooms once a year in Germantown. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Magnificent magnolia in Germantown embraces neighbors, graces spring

Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood is known to many for its accessible historic sites, but one 150-year-old treasure, a massive ...

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Natural gas reserve extends beneath Bucks County

The United States Geological Survey’s new estimates of ...

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Delaware Riverkeeper protests possibility of fracking in N.Y.

The Delaware Riverkeeper is speaking out against newly revealed plans to permit natural gas drilling, including hydraulic fracturing, in ...

13 years ago

Closing Philadelphia-area refineries will make gas prices volatile

Two idled Delaware County refineries and a third in Philadelphia threatened with closure make up 50 percent of the East Coast’s oi ...

13 years ago

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