
Environment
Poll: Public concern grows over natural gas industry’s environmental impact
8 years ago
EPA moves to weaken landmark fuel efficiency rules
The Trump Administration today moved to weaken fuel economy standards for automobiles, saying the current ones are inappropriate and wrong.
8 years ago
Sunoco to residents near sinkholes: We’ll pay to relocate you during investigation
Sunoco is offering to relocate residents at a Chester County site where drilling for the Mariner East pipelines has caused sink holes to open up in recent weeks.
8 years ago
What if a drug could make your blood deadly to mosquitoes?
Imagine this: A pesky mosquito sips some of your blood. Hours later, the blood-sucker drops dead, poisoned by the very blood it just slurped down.
8 years ago
Pa. group calls for higher penalties for Clean Water Act violators
A report by PennEnvironment ranks Pennsylvania second in violations nationwide.
8 years ago
A century after WWI, munitions still making way onto beaches
Items ranging from tiny fuses to full-scale mines are displaced by beach replenishment projects, sucked from the ocean floor and pumped ashore, or by strong storms.
8 years ago
For houses vulnerable to flooding, elevation can be a solution. But how do you raise a home that’s connected to others?
8 years ago
Listen 12:58How perceptions about natural gas production, climate change have changed
New polling finds most Pennsylvanians are concerned about climate change.
8 years ago
Listen 4:00Poll: Most Pennsylvania voters say climate change causing problems now
Party affiliation and political ideology continue to play a big role in people’s views.
8 years ago
FERC’s critics, and two commissioners, say new comment policy will hurt landowners
FERC says it will limit public interventions in its pipeline review process if they are submitted outside the prescribed time.
8 years ago
In Pennsylvania, unions throw political weight behind natural gas
Nationwide, fewer than 5 percent of workers in oil, gas, and mining are unionized, about half the national average.
8 years ago
Lobbyist, lawmakers entwined in complex relationship: Is it influence peddling, or essential?
There are more than 1,200 registered lobbyists in Harrisburg.
8 years ago
N.J. files in federal court to stop PennEast from condemning protected land
8 years ago