A team of archaeologists is looking for signs of early life in the Americas at the bottom of Lake Erie. A Pennsylvania environmental group is out with a new playbook to move the state away from fossil ...

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.

In the 1800’s, Virginia artist Sally Veach’s family members were among many in central Pennsylvania that leased land and profited from coal mining. Now those same mines in Center and Clearfield ...

Jessi Halligan stares at a laptop screen on the deck of a 50-foot vessel, a few miles from the Canadian border in the middle of Lake Erie. On screen is a stack of squiggly colored lines that are ...

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

A new invasive plant has been found in a western Pennsylvania nature reserve that could alter the forests of the Laurel Highlands and beyond if it takes hold. Land managers and invasive species ...

This story comes from our partner, 90.5 WESA. A bill introduced Tuesday in the U.S. House by Pittsburgh-area Rep. Summer Lee aims to boost federal benefits for coal miners disabled by black lung ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is accepting public comments on a proposed permit for treated wastewater discharge for a new coal mine planned for the Laurel Highlands in ...

You may have noticed your electricity bill is rising. The Pennsylvania Utility Commission alerted consumers that the price of electric generation is increasing this month, just as it’s getting hotter ...

Ken Fellows has been fishing off and on all his life. Last year, he decided to try his hand at turtles. He caught one near his favorite fishing hole along Montour Run, west of Downtown Pittsburgh “I ...

In the same week that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would give Pennsylvania more than $39 million to address PFAS contamination in drinking water, the agency also said it ...