WHYY News Climate Desk

EMR sued Camden after the city suspended the company’s junkyard license following its latest fire.

The PA Flax Project promotes the revitalization of the industry as a climate-friendly crop that could be used to make the sustainable plant-based fiber linen.

The dangerous heat is accelerating air conditioner use. Data centers could be directed to use their own backup power.

The legislation will create a tiered permitting system for development based on how critical a nontidal wetland is.

Residents struggling to pay their water and electric bills could be spared from shutoffs as temperatures rise.

The Monroe Energy refinery in Trainer processes an average of 185,000 barrels per day, including jet fuel, gasoline and diesel.

Residents say they hope transforming vacant lots into green spaces will help reduce illegal dumping and crime, while improving people's health.

Humans cause almost all of the state’s wildfires. Climate change is making them worse.

The lawsuit, filed by three Camden residents, claimed “noxious emissions” from EMR interfered with the use of their properties.

Amid a backdrop of steadily rising temperatures, the city's average from March through May tied a record set in 1921.

PGW agreed to hold public meetings on reducing its carbon footprint. At the first meeting, there were lots of questions from the public but no answers from the utility.

Perched 100 feet above the Pine Barrens, a man in a tower uses a century-old system to stop fire in its tracks.

The May fire was the latest of over a dozen at facilities run by EMR in Camden since 2020. The suspension will be reevaluated in early July.

The order comes after city, county and state elected officials called on government agencies to shut EMR’s Camden operations.

The so-called “forever chemicals” were found at higher levels between Chester and Pea Patch Island.