Environment
Climate Fixers: Slowing down ‘fast fashion’ with natural dyes
Synthetic dyes are often petroleum-based and pollute waterways. At a former dairy farm in Lancaster County, Pa., flowers, plants and kitchen waste color clothes naturally.
2 weeks ago
The box tree moth, which originally hails from Asia, has only one victim: boxwoods, a non-native shrub commonly used for hedging and topiary.
2 weeks ago
Listen 1:08Fact Check: Why Trump’s new campaign ad on fracking is misleading
A new Trump ad claims Harris will ban fracking in Pa. It’s false on several accounts, including the fact that a president cannot ban fracking in Pennsylvania.
3 weeks ago
Listen 1:08Harris supported the Green New Deal. Now, she’s promoting domestic oil drilling
A Republican strategist called the remark “another sign of Harris’ sprint to the middle" on energy policy and other issues.
3 weeks ago
The cooperative of farmers and textile producers wants to jump-start flax production to provide more linen clothing as an alternative to fossil fuel-based synthetic fibers.
3 weeks ago
Here’s what Harris and Trump said about climate change in the Philly debate
Trump said little about his plans, while Harris bragged about both clean energy investments and gas production.
3 weeks ago
Fact check: A president can’t ban fracking in Pennsylvania
Former President Donald Trump claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris would ban fracking if she is elected president, which she wouldn’t have the power to do.
3 weeks ago
Listen 1:27Dozens of large buildings and homes throughout the Philly region use geothermal. For the German Society of Pa., “it was a no-brainer.”
3 weeks ago
North Philly charter school powers up its culinary program with solar
The new off-grid solar array runs an aquaponics system in a greenhouse where students will learn to raise fish and grow vegetables.
4 weeks ago
Attorneys plan to sue Del. company under federal environmental act
Gore, known for the Gore-Tex fabric, is accused of improperly disposing of hazardous waste into sewers and the air.
4 weeks ago
Philly city officials vow to keep the city clean after a summer-long cleanup effort
“We completed over 60,000 quality-of-life services throughout the entire city of Philadelphia, block by block,” Mayor Cherelle Parker said Wednesday.
4 weeks ago
Another New Jersey offshore wind project runs into turbulence
Leading Light Wind is asking the state's Board of Public Utilities to give it a pause through December on its plan to build an offshore wind farm off Long Beach Island.
4 weeks ago
Climate Fixers: Curbside recycling is broken. In Kensington, Rabbit Recycling will take anything
Rabbit Recycling, whose tagline is "Zero waste in a bucket," will recycle all your household trash for a fee.
4 weeks ago
No more ‘knocking trees down to the property line’ for Sussex County developers
Environmentalists have bemoaned the loss of 43,000 acres to development and say more is needed, but county leaders laud the compromise law.
4 weeks ago
Samples collected over Labor Day weekend 2022 found increased chemicals from sunscreens, shampoos, drugs and fecal matter, according to a newly published Johns Hopkins study.
1 month ago