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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A massive solar energy project that sparked a backlash in Adams County has lost a second court fight. The Commonwealth Court marked its decision “precedential” when it upheld a lower court ruling that ...
Gov. Josh Shapiro went to Washington County to announce a voluntary agreement the state was signing with CNX, the Canonsburg-based natural gas driller. He also signaled he’d push his Department of ...
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 ...
This story was produced as part of Climate Solutions, a collaboration focused on community engagement and solutions-based reporting to help Central Pennsylvania move toward climate literacy, ...
Environmental advocates are urging Gov. Josh Shapiro to let the state join a program to cut power plant emissions, following a report from his working group. The group on the Regional Greenhouse Gas ...
That money could have been put toward addressing climate change by boosting clean energy programs. If the legislature and Gov. Josh Shapiro had agreed on a plan, it also could have offered relief to ...
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