Pennsylvania and other states are trying to limit the spread of PFAS through the spreading of sewage sludge on farm fields.

Sludge from municipal sewage is often spread on farm fields as fertilizer. But it can contain PFAS forever chemicals. Regulators want to limit the amount of these chemicals, but monitoring could be ...

Proposals for hyper-scale data centers have been popping up across Pennsylvania, causing conflict and opposition. Ahead of signing an executive order reining in large-scale data development, Governor ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection will examine whether a coal mine in Westmoreland County should be allowed to expand into an 11,000 acre-area at the headwaters of two local ...

The order will force data center developers to abide by several rules, including a requirement to obtain a stamp of approval from local officials.

Sally Veach's family members leased land in central Pennsylvania to coal companies in the 1800s. Her drawings benefit the organization cleaning up the legacy pollution mining caused.

The Three Rivers Waterkeeper is collecting samples from Synthomer, a chemical plant, in its effort to understand water pollution in the Mon.

Underwater archaeology may hold the keys to discovering how ancient humans lived before seas rose. “Everywhere people have looked, they've found...preserved things left behind.” ...

The Three Rivers Waterkeeper is collecting samples from Synthomer, a chemical plant, in its effort to understand water pollution in the Mon.

The playbook calls for legalizing community solar, which are neighborhood-scale solar arrays that people nearby can subscribe to directly.

On a Saturday morning in March, a demolition crew took down the smokestacks at the Homer City Generating Station. The plant – first commissioned in 1969 – once employed hundreds of workers. In an ...

This story is the fourth in a series examining the aftermath of the Feb. 3, 2023, Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, funded in part by the Fund for Investigative Journalism. It ...