StateImpact reporters in Oklahoma and Pennsylvania examine how state issues and policy affect people’s lives. In addition to the state websites, stories are featured on local public radio stations and ...
With all the talk of fracking in Pennsylvania during this presidential race, it’s worth looking at what is at stake for workers, leaseholders and residents who live near oil and gas operations. One ...
Wendy Smith was terrified she would never be able to return home after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979. The central Pennsylvanian was one of about 80,000 people that evacuated during ...
Pennsylvania’s Senate is trying again to overturn a regulation that would make power plants pay for pollution. The chamber voted along party lines Tuesday to repeal the regulation that allows the ...
Federal incentives for emissions-free energy have owners of recently shuttered nuclear plants exploring restarts. Now some activists are calling on Pennsylvania’s government to prevent the reopening ...
On hot days, it can feel hotter in some Pennsylvania cities, according to a new analysis by Climate Central, a non-profit science communications group. That’s because of the urban heat-island index – ...
Centralia, Washington’s coal-fired power plant is closing by the end of 2025. Pennsylvania’s robust fossil-fuel economy intersects with the drive to cut carbon emissions that fuel climate change.
Josh Shapiro proposes state climate program to replace RGGI, and asks for new renewable energy goals
Gov. Josh Shapiro is offering his own version of a controversial program to limit climate-warming pollution from power plants, and is setting new goals for how much energy Pennsylvania gets from ...
Climate change could be contributing to a three-decade decline in honey production, according to a new study from Penn State. The Penn State researchers looked at 50 years worth of data on honey ...
When Andrew Whelton first learned that Norfolk Southern would be burning off five rail cars worth of vinyl chloride that had derailed in East Palestine and that people would be allowed back into the ...
State lawmakers are looking at best practices for regulating newly-announced hydrogen hubs. The federal hubs planned to be near Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are meant to demonstrate how to make and use ...
Commonwealth Court is stopping Pennsylvania’s effort to join a cap-and-trade program targeting power plant emissions. Joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative was Gov. Tom Wolf’s signature ...
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