Climate Change

The report estimates the state’s average temperature will continue to rise up to 5.9 degrees higher on average by midcentury. That’s half a degree hotter than expected in the 2015 report.

Last term, state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) equated climate change with seasonal weather, said predictions about the dangers of climate change are fiction, and implied carbon dioxide can’t be a pollutant because plants use it as food.

Marking a shift away from the deregulation agenda of former President Donald Trump, newly sworn-in President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order on…

Trains still carry coal past the now-abandoned Mathies Mine, located on the Monongahela River in Washington County. Metal fencing blocks the mine…

Wildfires aggravated by the effects of climate change have been raging across the western United States for weeks.The commonwealth is starting to see…

The November election will likely have big consequences for climate policy in the United States.President Donald Trump recently said he doesn’t “think…

Pennsylvania is one step closer to joining a regional program meant to cut greenhouse gas emissions.The Environmental Quality Board on Tuesday approved a…

Heavy rain pounded parts of Pennsylvania over the summer of 2018.Some flash floods turned deadly. Many took a toll on property, roads and bridges.Water…

When Carol Collier checked the rain gauge in her garden on Tuesday after Tropical Storm Isaias ripped through the Philadelphia region, she was shocked by…

More than 200 current and potential Superfund sites in Pennsylvania and New Jersey are at risk of flooding in the next 20 years due to sea level rise,…