Infrastructure

The company has filed a rate request with the state Public Utility Commission, seeking to increase water bills by 17% and wastewater bills by 33%.

The response team, Pennsylvania Task Force One, is based in Philadelphia and is sponsored by the city’s fire department.

Bikes, scooters, pedestrians - oh my! How will Philadelphia make routes safer (and maybe greener) for all travelers to share?

The humanitarian failure that was relief efforts following the last devastating earthquake in 2010 is weighing heavily on the minds of Haitians in the Philly region.

President Joe Biden’s $1 trillion national infrastructure plan could help Philadelphia correct damage caused in part by environmental racism.

Senators passed the infrastructure bill on Tuesday after months of bipartisan negotiations.

The legislation includes nearly $550 billion in new spending above what Congress was already planning to allocate for infrastructure over the next eight years.

Customers in 19 ZIP codes may have received bills with a balance well into the thousands. The Inquirer reported one woman received a bill for nearly $15,000.

A call for a half-billion dollars in federal funding to fix flooding in Philadelphia’s Eastwick neighborhood.

Philadelphia public schools grapple with masks under the threat of the delta variant. And, we talk with the director of an acclaimed film making its US premiere at BlackStar.

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act clocked in at some 2,700 pages, and senators could begin amending it soon.

“This deal signals to the world that our democracy can function,” Biden said in a statement. “We will once again transform America and propel us into the future.”

President Joe Biden will head to the Allentown area Wednesday as he fights for passage in the Senate of a nearly $1 trillion infrastructure measure.

The deadly structural failure is still closely studied by civil engineers and serves as a cautionary tale for similar designs.

Coastal neighborhoods around the U.S. are seeing a steady increase in high tide flooding, as sea level rise accelerates and sends seawater into homes, sewers and streets.