Environment

This latest assessment brings the total financial penalties assessed to the company for Mariner East construction to more than $13 million.

Pennsylvania’s DEP offered an update on, and a possible wrinkle in, the ongoing Sunoco-era remediation at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions complex.

First we look at the fires burning in the Amazon -how they started, the response, and the impact on climate change. Then, we discuss threats to U.S. forests.

Waste Management wants state approval to increase landfill’s height from 130 to 190 feet. But New Castle County intervenes with new law that caps height at 140 feet.

Philip Rinaldi announced a new company, Philadelphia Energy Industries, and a plan to buy and restart the Point Breeze and Girard Point refineries.

Two New Jersey beaches are under swimming advisories issued Tuesday afternoon due to exceeding the allowable bacteria threshold, state officials said.

Chester's Ruth Bennett Community Farm is a vibrant oasis in a desert of dull brick and lifeless concrete.

Lawsuit alleges company withheld required pollution data after Dec. 24 fire

A new transportation bill making its way through Congress calls for money for resiliency projects to alleviate flooding issues in states like Delaware.

The ghostly forests of dead trees along the Mid-Atlantic shores are one indicator of a changing climate.

Anyone entering the ocean Monday could face potentially life-threatening conditions, forecasters warn.

The olfactory prowess of detection dogs is becoming an important tool in the fight against invasive plants and insects.

Total mortality rose 26% in Philadelphia during 10 scorching days in July 1993, with mortality from cardiovascular disease nearly doubling.

There have been more than 70,000 fires in Brazil so far this year, mostly in the Amazon, and about half of which have ignited in just the past month.

Governor Tom Wolf deferred to the state's Public Utility Commission on pipeline safety.