Environment

US Steel has put its pollution controls back online at its Clairton Coke Works and avoided a potential shutdown order, the Allegheny County Health Department said Tuesday.

For the second consecutive week, two New Jersey beaches are under swimming advisories issued Tuesday afternoon due to unacceptable fecal bacteria levels, state officials said.

A group of New Jersey fishermen received a once-in-a-lifetime thrill while off the state's coastline Monday.

A study from researchers at Cooper University Hospital shows an uptick in infections due to Vibrio vulnificus in the Delaware Bay.

The second fire at US Steel's Clairton plant in six months could send SO2 levels up again.

Entrepreneurs are eager to find substitutes for plastic that naturally degrade. One option is a "natural" plastic made by microbes and then eaten by them.

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.