Environment

The federal government is considering whether it should require companies to disclose the chemicals involved in hydraulic fracturing, or ...

When a Chevron natural gas well exploded in Greene County, killing a worker, the company blocked personnel with the state Department of E ...

When a Chevron natural gas well exploded, killing a young worker, the company gave residents free pizza coupons, prompting an internation ...

UPDATED 6:30 P.M. A worker is still unaccounted for after a natural gas well explosion in southwestern Pennsylvania. ...

Five years into Pennsylvania’s shale gas boom, the state is overhauling environmental regulations for drillers and changing the way ...

Philadelphia is at the center of a new industrial boom. A visible sign of that are the long trains snaking through the city, bringing cru ...

It has been insufferable lately— hot and sticky enough to set off smoke alarms. The Philadelphia region has been especially mugg ...

A migrating bird makes an unexpected stopover in Philadelphia after crashing into a Center City high rise.

Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood is known to many for its accessible historic sites, but one 150-year-old treasure, a massive ...

The United States Geological Survey’s new estimates of ...

The Delaware Riverkeeper is speaking out against newly revealed plans to permit natural gas drilling, including hydraulic fracturing, in ...

Two idled Delaware County refineries and a third in Philadelphia threatened with closure make up 50 percent of the East Coast’s oi ...