Environment

The Sustainable Energy Partnership of Southeastern Pennsylvania will set renewable energy guidelines in the coming months.

Philadelphia students are learning how to reduce the impacts of climate change and protect the watershed — and earning a “green ribbon” in the process.

Forty-eight “heritage” trees have been cut down in the park’s former golf course to make way for athletic fields and courts.

The school's rain gardens have proven effective at helping prevent raw sewage from overflowing into waterways.

Pennsylvania is just one of more than a dozen states that have recently banned — or want to ban — the ornamental tree.

The plan includes nearly 200 items, such as expanding the county’s farmers market program and making more rain barrels available to residents.

Municipalities and utilities are required to create an inventory of lead pipes by October.

Vikki Prettyman, who died of kidney failure last year, helped the Sussex County town of Blades overcome its “forever chemicals” water crisis.

The funding will go toward renovations of the Valley Green Road Bridge in Wissahickon Valley Park and the Bells Mill Bridge near Morris Arboretum.

A month after the Adams Solar Farm went online, Philly is seeking more renewable electricity to power the rest of its municipal buildings.

The state Board of Public Utilities on Tuesday opened a fourth round of solicitations for offshore wind farms, giving interested companies until July 10 to submit proposals.

A Tyson Foods plant in Lancaster County is one of several Tyson plants that researchers say discharged pollutants by piping wastewater into waterways.

To help solve the climate crisis, $750 million could flow to the Philadelphia region to create a hydrogen economy. But some say it’s a deceit to help the fossil fuel industry.

Burlington County officials are looking to promote art and recycling with a new Troll Trek initiative.

The city and state of New Jersey have agreed to an emergency project to pump sand ashore in the interim, to give North Wildwood protection from storm surges and flooding.