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Marcellus Life: One Greene County man’s encounter with a landman

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 ...

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 Three Mile Island's Unit 1 reactor is still operational and provides enough power for 800,000 homes. Unit 2 partially melted down in 1979. (Joanne Cassaro/WITF)

As feds set carbon rules, a renewed interest in nuclear power

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

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 The Point Breeze refinery sits along the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. (Kellie McGinn/Philadelphia Energy Solutions)

Philadelphia refinery capitalizes on the shale boom

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

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 The Hankin Group's two megawatt solar farm in Berks County. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)

Despite ups and downs, solar power still shining in Pennsylvania

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

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 The Twin Ridges Wind Farm has 68 turbines along the Big Savage Ridge in Somerset County, Pa. (Katie Colaneri/StateImpact)

Wind in Pennsylvania a boom-or-bust business

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

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 The Alpha Natural Resources Cumberland mine in Greene County. Coal currently supplies 40 percent of Pennsylvania’s electricity, but industry advocates say coal faces a “perfect storm” of problems right now — from tougher carbon regulations, to low electric demand, and competition from natural gas. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact)

Pennsylvania’s coal industry faces uncertain future

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

12 years ago

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 Bob Bridges of Coal Tubin' steers an inflatable boat called the shredder down the Stonycreek River in Johnstown, Pa.  (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
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Johnstown reconsiders its industrial rivers for recreation

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

12 years ago

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 Philadelphia's first public natural gas vehicle (NGV) fueling facility opens in East Falls. (Bas Slabbers/for NewsWorks)

First public natural gas fueling station opens in Philadelphia, despite low demand

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

12 years ago

Fire at western Pa. gas well pad forces evacuation

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

12 years ago

Ray Kemble of Dimock, displays a jug of what he identifies as his contaminated well water in this August 2013 file photo (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)

DEP publishes details on 248 cases of water damage from gas development

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

12 years ago

In this file photo, a drilling rig used to bore thousands of feet into the earth to extract natural gas from the Marcellus shale deep underground is seen on the hill above a reservoir in Houston, Pa. Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008 (Keith Srakocic/AP Photo)

DEP: 3 Range frackwater impoundments are leaking

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

12 years ago

US plans wide seismic testing of sea floor

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

12 years ago

(Emma Lee/for The Pulse)
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Science explains changes in water temperature from beach to beach

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and scie ...

12 years ago

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US mayors to vote on climate change resolution

U.S. mayors gathered in Texas will decide whether to endorse a call for cities to use nature to fight the effects of climate change. ...

12 years ago

 Shown here is a photo of Soil Safe dumping materials at the Equine Park in Gloucester County, New Jersey. (Image courtesy of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network)

Judge orders mediated talks over claims of contaminated soil dumping in N.J.

A judge has ordered a soil cleanup company and an environmental group to meet at the mediation table within the next 30 days. It ...

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