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Climate-damaging methane emissions, as well as volatile organic compounds from Pennsylvania’s shale gas industry are on the rise, while other harmful air…
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Shell Chemical Appalachia has reached a settlement agreement with two environmental groups that had challenged the air permit for its new petrochemical…
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A Chester County judge has dismissed a suit by a property developer that sought to stop an environmental group criticizing the company’s plans for…
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For the first time in centuries, the American shad entered the Musconetcong River during its spring spawning migration upriver this year. The Musky, as…
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A natural gas severance tax has been a hot-button issue in Harrisburg for nearly a decade, but the plan recently approved by the state Senate is unlikely…
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A new study finds the treated wastewater from Pennsylvania’s natural gas industry may pollute rivers, lakes, streams and creeks for longer than previously…
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Exelon has announced it will prematurely close the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in September 2019—15 years before its license expires.The plant’s…
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Pennsylvania’s shale gas drillers continued to break records for production in 2016, tapping about 5.1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.Although the…
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The Confluence, where the news comes together, is 90.5 WESA’s weekly news program.Each week reporters, editors and bloggers join veteran journalist and…
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Two of Pennsylvania’s leading environmental groups are forming a new strategic alliance in response to what they call an “unprecedented anti-environmental…