Environment

Over the last year, a sharp increase in accidents involving trains carrying crude oil has prompted emergency planners in Pennsylvania to ...

A southwestern Pennsylvania borough is trying to figure out who dumped 3,000 to 4,000 gallons of hydraulic fracturing water into its sewe ...

Leigh Shields refused to allow seismic testing for natural gas on his 88 acres in Spraggs, Greene County. He thought if he said no to the ...

The Three Mile Island power plant has a conspicuous place near the Pennsylvania Turnpike and in the history of the world’s nuclear ...

The Valley Forge toll plaza is where route 76 splits from the Pennsylvania Turnpike and becomes the Schuylkill Expressway to Philadelphia ...

Standing next to this solar farm in Morgantown, Berks County, you can see the Pennsylvania Turnpike traffic, but the place still feels l ...

Heading eastbound on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, just as you approach the Somerset service plaza, a striking sight appears in the distance ...

 Looking out the car window on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, you can see a massive pile of waste coal near mile marker 117 in Somerset ...

As Johnstown works to attract new residents, new businesses, and new types of industry, its rivers are also getting a second look. ...

The first filling station for natural gas vehicles in Philadelphia is now open to the public, bringing the total number of stations offer ...

A fire at a northwestern Pennsylvania gas well briefly forced the evacuation of homes within a one-mile radius of the well pad. Th ...

For the first time, Pennsylvania environmental regulators are publicly releasing documents about cases when natural gas operations have d ...

The state Department of Environmental Protection has issued a violation to Range Resources because a fracking wastewater impoundment has ...

The federal government is planning to use sound blasting to conduct research on the ocean floor along most of the East Coast, using techn ...

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