Environment

The university received a $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, which will fund the five-year study.

The plant’s control panel and a model of the reactor core will be preserved, as well as signs, maps, and photos from the time of TMI-2’s partial meltdown in 1979.

The city, school district and a group of nonprofits are officially joining forces to plant and protect more trees.

Delaware is the lowest-lying state in the U.S., leaving it vulnerable to the effects of climate change, lawmakers and advocates say.

The Nature Conservancy wants to prevent stormwater runoff from schoolyards by building rain gardens that also provide relief from the heat.

Synthetic dyes are often petroleum-based and pollute waterways. At a former dairy farm in Lancaster County, Pa., flowers, plants and kitchen waste color clothes naturally.

The box tree moth, which originally hails from Asia, has only one victim: boxwoods, a non-native shrub commonly used for hedging and topiary.

A new Trump ad claims Harris will ban fracking in Pa. It’s false on several accounts, including the fact that a president cannot ban fracking in Pennsylvania.

A Republican strategist called the remark “another sign of Harris’ sprint to the middle" on energy policy and other issues.

The cooperative of farmers and textile producers wants to jump-start flax production to provide more linen clothing as an alternative to fossil fuel-based synthetic fibers.

Trump said little about his plans, while Harris bragged about both clean energy investments and gas production.

Former President Donald Trump claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris would ban fracking if she is elected president, which she wouldn’t have the power to do.

Dozens of large buildings and homes throughout the Philly region use geothermal. For the German Society of Pa., “it was a no-brainer.”

The new off-grid solar array runs an aquaponics system in a greenhouse where students will learn to raise fish and grow vegetables.

Gore, known for the Gore-Tex fabric, is accused of improperly disposing of hazardous waste into sewers and the air.