Google Earth
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Wastewater from landfills exceeded federal limits.
Jacqueline Larma
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AP
Courtesy of the Lehigh Valley Zoo
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Via WLVR
Reid Frazier
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StateImpact Pennsylvania
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One of Pennsylvania’s biggest gas drillers is facing newer allegations of pollution in a rural community where it’s already charged with crimes for fouling residents’ drinking water wells with high levels of methane. -
Pennsylvania moved closer in 2021 to joining a regional program to cut greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
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For the first time in two years, dozens of state parks across Pennsylvania will participate in a nationwide New Year’s Day tradition called First Day Hikes.
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Pennsylvania’s environmental regulator wants to be a better resource for disadvantaged communities with a historically high pollution burden.
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A ‘circular’ economy with greater recycling rates could lower the impact of all that plastic.
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Mariner East pipeline is set to be completed in 2022, after years of environmental damage and delaysTroubled Mariner East pipeline construction at Marsh Creek State Park in Chester County has restarted, leading the project’s builder to say it expects to finish the 350-mile-long natural gas liquids line in the first quarter of 2022 — more than two years after its initial planned completion.
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This fall, the Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP) named a new executive director: Patrick Campbell. The Allegheny Front’s Kara Holsopple spoke with Campbell about his new role and the future of this mainstay of clean air advocacy in the region.
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Critics say the proposal holds wind and solar to higher standards than natural gas, and could discourage development in the state.
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The new livestream is set on the nest of parents Irvin and Claire and their growing family. It's located at U.S. Steel's Mon Valley Works Irvin Plant in West Mifflin.
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Gov. Tom Wolf is likely to veto the measure, but that won’t mean the regulation could immediately take effect.
