Environment

Philadelphia sends one-third of its trash to an incinerator in Chester deemed by researchers to be one of the dirtiest in the nation.

Severe thunderstorms are possible at the Jersey Shore on Sunday, forecasters say. 

Three Canadian artists traveled to 22 countries to research and document "places of obvious, physical human incursions on the landscape."

A Senate bill would phase out the foams on military installations by the end of 2023, but a House proposal wouldn’t do so until 2029.

House Bill 629 passed the house and currently sits in the Senate Insurance and Banking Committee, where past versions of this bill have all stalled. 

After criticism of its handling of Mariner East, the commission said the ‘time is ripe’ to enhance rules.

This week: The Philadelphia Department of Streets cracks down on illegal dumping, the formerly-incarcerated Board of Pardons secretary, and the invasive spotted lanternfly.

PGW just won Council approval, while SEPTA’s facility is nearly done.

In a 13-4 vote, Philadelphia City Council approved a new $60 million LNG facility, despite the opposition of environmental groups.

Federal officials say they've canceled an annual summer concert series at Sandy Hook after the discovering of a piping plover nest. 

A coalition of environmental groups is calling on the multistate agency that oversees the Delaware River watershed to ban fracking and related activities.

Red dye was released for 12 hours during an exam of how a wastewater spill could affect shellfish in the Delaware Bay.

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

The agency said it only ‘recently’ learned of the plan to load potentially explosive liquids onto tankers in Gloucester County.

Air quality experts say the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery fire released enough particulate matter to affect neighbors.