WHYY News Climate Desk

With the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program delayed, over 300,000 Pa. households will wait longer for help heating their homes.

Members of the Senior Environment Corps wade into streams, peer through microscopes and teach kids how to identify aquatic critters.

Gov. Josh Shapiro is setting aside $5 million to aid food banks during the SNAP freeze. But nonprofits say more is needed.

The charges allege that Seneca Resources polluted water in eight counties. The company says it is working with the state to reach a “reasonable resolution.”

Cutting food waste is a huge potential climate win. Why are we ignoring it?

In the typically sleepy Supreme Court retention election, the focus is on voting rights and abortion. But the court also decides major environmental cases.

Republican lawmakers want to see faster permitting and an end to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

With a new analysis showing where the pollution is going, environmental advocates call on public officials to do more to stop it.

The solar-powered streetlights aim to help residents feel safe while reducing the community’s impact on the electric grid.

State officials say Pa. has not received its federal allocation for LIHEAP. Assistance could open on Dec. 3, if the funds begin to flow before then.

Assemblywoman Andrea Katz is sponsoring a bill that would impose a surcharge on data centers and use the money to modernize the region’s electrical grid.

The legislation would allow the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to create a regulatory framework for data centers.

The fee is meant to encourage Philadelphians to bring their own bags. Parker’s administration worries it could hurt low-income residents.

The facility would replace the recently closed Cleveland-Cliffs steel mill, which sits on 66 acres of land along the Schuylkill River.

The lots were once tangled up with privately held tax liens. The Land Bank can now transfer them to gardeners and land trusts.