Energy

The Energy Co-op is expanding its renewable natural gas service area to Philadelphia. The fuel comes from methane captured at landfills.

Almost a year after lines opened, residents will say the project remains a risk to public safety.

A sprawling solar farm could soon become operational on an Ocean County Superfund site that's roughly the size of Hoboken. 

New federal rules on pipeline safety are being praised by the oil and gas industry but dismissed by pipeline critics in Pennsylvania as unlikely to make pipelines any safer.

They’re pointing to sinkholes and contaminated wells they’ve seen throughout the building process, and say they’re worried about explosions.

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.