Rachel McDevitt | StateImpact Pennsylvania
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The Shapiro Administration is giving the money as grants to 16 projects across coal communities. The grant money comes from the 2021 federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
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Penn State researchers looked at 50 years worth of data on honey production by state as a way of measuring how the landscape of available flowers has shifted over that time.
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Gov. Josh Shapiro says fracking companies will have to publicly report what chemicals they use for drilling.
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Sixteen companies and communities across Pennsylvania are getting $39.6 million to replace heavy duty diesel trucks with electric versions.
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TMI-2 partially melted down nearly 45 years ago. After that, 99% of the fuel on site was removed to Idaho before the site was put into a state of long-term storage.
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The amount communities get to help offset the effects of natural gas drilling will likely be one of the lowest on record.
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Pennsylvania now has 1 gigawatt of solar energy capacity – enough to power all the homes in a city as big as Pittsburgh.
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The proposal under consideration in Harrisburg would up Pennsylvania’s renewable energy goals from 8% now to 30% by 2030.
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Pennsylvania natural gas companies may be on track to frack the lowest number of new wells in 2023 than any year of the past decade.
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The Environmental Protection Agency released a final rule on Dec. 2 that aims to avoid 80% of methane emissions by 2038, an estimated 58 million tons.