Energy

The Chemical Safety Board says if recommendations made after a California refinery explosion had been followed, the South Philly site might not have burned.

A federal investigation blames faulty, old pipe for the explosion and fire at the South Philly refinery. Hydrofluoric acid was released in the blast.

Nearly four months after the South Philadelphia refinery complex shut down following a massive explosion, the rail cars used to haul oil are on the road.

Agency blocks the 120-mile interstate project from obtaining crucial permits once more

A newly established panel will monitor the ongoing decommissioning operations at the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station, New Jersey officials announced. 

Wolf bypassed the Pennsylvania legislature with an executive order that starts the process to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

This year, with the cost of solar power falling sharply, Penn State signed a deal to buy electricity from a new 500-acre solar farm in Pennsylvania's Franklin County.

Officials have long argued unclean air from neighboring states plays significant role in New Jersey’s struggle to reduce smog.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf took a step toward capping greenhouse gas emissions from power plants Thursday, part of an effort to fight climate change.

So much ethane is coming out of the ground in Pennsylvania, and other drilling hot spots around the country, that chemical plants in the U.S. can’t use it all.

The latest plans to harness the power of the wind feature massive sea skyscrapers installed east of the state’s beaches in the Skipjack Wind Farm.

While the report, due out in November, will explore strategies for shaping the site’s future, it won’t prescribe a favored outcome.

The lifting of the injunction at the sinkhole site isn’t a final green light for Mariner East.

Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel said only trace amounts of dangerous hydrofluoric acid remain at the damaged Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery.

Leaders from nearly 200 countries are attending a special United Nations Summit on climate change today.