Environment

Two days after a 4,200-gallon heating oil leak, environmental cleanup crews continued work Monday in the ares of the spill site near the ...

New Mexico and the U.S. Department of Energy have inked $74 million in settlements over dozens of permit violations stemming from a radia ...

About a dozen activists braved frigid temperatures and demonstrated outside the EPA’s Center City office Tuesday to advocate more s ...

The latest in a series of U.S.-European ocean-monitoring satellites is scheduled for launch into orbit on Sunday. The Jason-3 sate ...

Michelle Obama’s affection for the White House South Lawn has grown just like the sweet potatoes and carrots she plants there. ...

Philadelphia is in the midst of a green revolution, and it’s happening overhead. The urban canopy — the population of street ...

How will climate change affect the Delaware watershed and the region’s water supply? That’s the “elephant in the atmosp ...

This is Halloween weekend — which means spooky creatures dressing up in costume, creeping around the neighborhood, and trick-or-treatin ...

One approach is to band together with other cities and towns along the river.

U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez’s corruption trial likely won’t happen until the fall of 2016. Federal District Judge William W ...

Islands on Pennsylvania’s waterways are often overlooked, difficult to access or seen as liabilities, but some people are trying to change that.

A New Jersey inventor unveiled Friday what he is calling the first fully-permitted and affordable house powered by solar and hydrogen in ...

 Some Pennsylvania municipalities have rules about leaving undeveloped strips along rivers to protect water quality. Many don't. 

Recently, about a hundred hardy souls paddled down the Schuylkill River, from the quiet banks of Schuylkill Haven to the skyscrapers of P ...

Pennsylvania cities are investing in their waterfronts, improving public access and hoping economic benefits will follow. But getting there is complicated.