When Greg Jenkins was growing up on 35th Street in West Philadelphia’s Mantua neighborhood in the late 1960s, he remembers playing on the playground at Morton McMichael School, beneath the only tree ...

The Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General said Tuesday that it plans to investigate the EPA’s response to the 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. On February 3, 2023, ...

A couple of weeks ago, at the annual meeting of the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency would be loosening Biden-era regulations for methane emissions ...

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed into law on Thursday a measure that prohibits the use of chemicals known as PFAS in firefighting foam, which is used to suppress fires. The language was ...

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency plans to loosen rules for methane leaks at oil and gas wells. How Pennsylvania and other states are drafting their own methane regulations. U.S. Steel ...

A new study shows that rates for black lung disease in Appalachia are surging. At the same time, the Trump administration is putting regulations that could reduce miners’ exposure to the dust ...

At a packed meeting room in Upper Burrell, Pa., Guy Fuller said he was already worried about all the fracking in his neighborhood. Now, the 77-year-old said he was worried a data center with its own ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is repealing rules that curb greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. The action, announced Monday at the G20 “Energy Abundance Ministerial” in Houston, ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has fined Shell $15 million for air quality violations at its Monaca, Pa. plastics plant. The agency says between 2023 and August 2026, Shell’s ...

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 ...

PFAS chemicals are in the water supply, including our drinking water. One way they are getting there: sewage sludge that is used as fertilizer. Pennsylvania and other states are looking to limit ...