The Pennsylvania Senate Republican Caucus filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging the Delaware River Basin Commission's moratorium on shale gas drilling is a taking of private property without compensation and exceeds its compact authority.
Environmental groups, along with 437 other individuals, signed a letter urging the Department of Environmental Protection to deny the environmental permits for the PennEast Pipeline Project.
The Allegheny County Sanitary Authority will be constructing an office and lab building and a 461-space parking garage at its Woods Run plant as part of a $2 billion plus Clean Water Plan.
The Better Path Coalition delivered a letter signed by 42 organizations calling on House Speaker Bryan Cutler to replace Rep. Daryl Metcalfe as Majority Chair of the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee.
Jennifer Granholm helped lead efforts to bail out the auto industry, including offering incentives for electric vehicle technology. Her nomination to be secretary of Energy has garnered positive reactions from the academic and environmental sectors.
Lawmakers in both parties acknowledge the measure impedes government transparency and public safety, but powerful special interests stand in the way of any major changes.
Heart failure patients who live near fracking operations were more likely to be hospitalized than those who live farther away, according to a new study.
As the US turns the page on a skeptical and openly hostile administration, environmental science and journalism face continued obstacles—but there is some optimism.
The Gulf of Mexico is littered with tens of thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells, and toothless regulation leaves climate warming gas emissions unchecked.
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