The study is looking to identify potential locations in Pennsylvania for new generating facilities as electricity demand grows.

When Lucy Hurowitz was finishing her first year of high school, she was having anxiety about climate change and the state of the environment. “You just feel so helpless in the face of these really big ...

Residents who live near the Edgar Thomson Plant in Braddock expressed their frustration at a U.S. Steel project to build a hot strip mill at the plant. A public environmental justice meeting over the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Concerns about data center construction and energy use are being raised all over the Commonwealth. About 80 new data center projects have been proposed in the state. The Pennsylvania Capital-Star’s ...

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 ...

One year ago, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro stood before a crowd in Berwick, Columbia County, exclaiming that it was a good day. “I’m here to announce that Pennsylvania has landed the largest ...

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 ...