Sustainability

The city will issue fines to stores for single-use plastic bags starting next month. A two-week awareness campaign is underway.

The Penn initiative has produced projects including a giant Brita filter for the Schuylkill River and a kids book about friendly river creatures.

Flood risk in the United States will increase by about 25% in the next three decades, and Black communities in the South will face disproportionate harm.

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission has approved a new model for analyzing wildlife that would guide quotas beyond just male crabs.

Conservationists are concerned the plan would lead to overharvesting, and threaten the endangered red knot bird, which relies on horseshoe crab eggs for sustenance.

It's peak season for returns, which are setting a new record. Some end up back on shelves or get resold to other merchants, and some wind up in landfills or sail overseas.

The latest on Covid-19 in our region with the city's health commissioner. How schools are dealing with learning loss and staff shortages. And a circular fashion economy.

The grant funds will help pay for 12 education, design, and engineering efforts to protect and restore the 3-county Delaware Estuary Coastal Zone.

The farmers at Life Do Grow, a green oasis run by Urban Creators, a nonprofit, provide food for hundreds of North Philly families. They need support.

The PGW Business Diversification Study aims to tackle the question: How can the city meet its climate goals while owning a fossil fuel company?

Many new municipal buildings in Philadelphia will need to meet a higher standard of sustainability, under a bill City Council passed Thursday.

Critics say the way we recycle doesn’t work with plastic waste, which the U.S. produces more of than any other country, sending most of it to landfills.

The city opposes the measure, now making its way through Harrisburg, that would tie the hands of Pennsylvania municipalities regarding electrification.

The infrastructure bill signed into law creates aid opportunities for communities like Eastwick harmed by flooding.