Sophia Schmidt

City Councilmember Jamie Gauthier hopes the Summer Winter Community Garden deal will be a model for securing more garden land.

The program is geared toward customers with incomes too high to qualify for some existing energy assistance programs.

The auction, meant to ensure sufficient power supply in the future, closed at a record price for the second year in a row.

Three nonprofits hope to force the federal government to regulate hydrogen fluoride more strictly. The chemical is still used at a Delaware County refinery.

The funding would have helped reduce flooding in Lewes, Delaware, and Philly neighborhoods, as well as strengthened a dam in Hunterdon County, New Jersey.

The tentative deal between the city and AFSCME District Council 47 still needs to be approved by union members.

The state’s latest proposal would require new buildings in coastal flood zones be elevated an additional 4 feet, rather than 5 feet.

A study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found composting and feeding food waste to animals would cut carbon emissions.

When temperatures spiked last month, so did air pollution. Here’s why.

The district’s agreement with DOJ to delay prosecution of criminal charges describes asbestos issues at 31 schools.

AFSCME District Council 33 represents 9,000 employees ranging from sanitation workers to crossing guards. Trash pick-up, pools and 911 calls are among the services impacted.

Under a deferred prosecution agreement, the federal government may drop the criminal charges if the district complies with federal law.