Environment

Limited assistance plagues Delawareans seeking utility assistance. But new laws could help avoid shutoffs.

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

Some medicines affect your ability to sweat, stay hydrated, or even to notice if you're overheating. Doctors say keep taking them, but make sure to keep yourself cool.

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

Two rules designed to promote cleaner cars were already effectively eliminated. With the EPA suggesting not considering carbon dioxide to be pollution, the last could fall.

The paint manufacturer contaminated local waterways, groundwater and soil in Camden County with arsenic, lead and other metals.

Residential solar tax credits were supposed to last for another decade. The Dec. 31 deadline has homeowners rushing to install and get their systems online.

Fewer than 2% of insured homes in Pennsylvania include flood protection.

An investor owned firm says its proposed Delaware City data center will bring jobs. Residents say it will use too much energy and water.

After the federal government cut funds for beach replenishment, Jersey Shore leaders are clamoring to bring it back.

New Jersey’s temperatures are rising at a faster rate than many other states. The state is offering grants to communities to prepare for climate change–related heat waves.

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.

Though states typically operate lead paint programs, the EPA is responsible for overseeing the implementation, a report says.

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