Energy

A new poll found Pennsylvania voters generally support nuclear energy, but on the question of whether the state should prop up struggling plants, that support is mixed.

'Sometimes you have to teach the younger generation that they have to come out and cross a line to make a point.'

In Fukushima, farmers and residents put their stock in solar.

On the 40th anniversary of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, we look back at the disaster and discuss the effect it had on the nuclear power industry then and now.

Cut way back on red meat, say scientists, who came up with a controversial diet recommended for our health, and the planet’s.

Forty years after the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island changed the trajectory of nuclear energy in this country, the debate over its safety and viability continues.

Forty years after the country's worst nuclear accident, Three Mile Island could close. That's sparked a debate about the risks and benefits of this carbon-free energy source.

"Three Mile Island is an accident without an ending," TMI Alert’s Eric Epstein said.

If Three Mile Island shuts down, the counties and communities surrounding the plant could see less money for emergency management.

Pipeline safety advocates worry the pressure on the 16-inch Mariner East 2x would pose greater dangers.

Gov. Tom Wolf is once again pushing for a severance tax on Pennsylvania’s natural gas producers — this time by focusing on how the money could be used for schools.

"Nobody wants the spent fuel near them," said Don Hudson, who lives downstream from the defunct Maine Yankee plant.

Less than two weeks before the accident at Three Mile Island, a Hollywood thriller depicting the frightening scenario of a disaster at a nuclear plant hit the screens.

Although Pennsylvania has the nation’s highest rate of thyroid cancer, most of that cancer has nothing to do with Three Mile Island.

Three Mile Island Alert is asking federal regulators to analyze what the group calls a “potentially dangerous and risky condition” at Exelon's Three Mile Island plant.