Health & Science

Marianne Atkinson of Brady Township said her family’s water well is 900 feet from the proposed injection site.

The $1.3 trillion spending bill signed by President Donald Trump on Friday unexpectedly brought good news for environmentalists.

Emission tests are required in 25 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties.

Some worry that rather than freeing up the CDC to fund more research on gun violence, the new language might do the opposite, by seeming to limit CDC funding.

“States that levy a natural gas severance tax allow those costs to be treated like a post-production cost,” IFO director Matthew Knittel wrote.

In New Jersey, there’s a bail algorithm designed to recommend whether you sit behind bars or walk free until your trial. The state’s court system recently abandoned cash bail.

A discussion at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia looked at whether medical marijuana has a place in alleviating Pennsylvania’s opioid crisis.

They argue that longwall mining, the technique Consol would use to mine beneath the stream, can cause ground beneath streams to fall in.

For some older folks, voice assistants can feel like helpful companions.

One study found that more than half of teenagers are intentionally spending less time on their phones.

Delaware public health officials are investigating a mumps outbreak linked to a Hispanic dance festival.

Join StateImpact Pennsylvania for an educational forum to learn how other states handle natural gas royalty payments and what’s being done about the controversy.

Philadelphia Energy Solutions is meeting more resistance to its plan to reorganize while in Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Measure under consideration by state lawmakers also calls for including chronic pain as qualifying condition.

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