Rachel McDevitt is a general assignment reporter with 90.5 WESA. She previously covered energy, the environment, and climate change as part of the StateImpact Pennsylvania project at WITF in Harrisburg.
The Wolf Administration estimates joining Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative will raise about $300 million in the first year by charging power plants for their carbon emissions. Republicans say it will devastate coal communities.
GOP lawmakers are trying to bypass Gov. Wolf's efforts to have Pennsylvania join the regional cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Pennsylvania could have more than a month’s worth of days 90 degrees or higher through the year by midcentury. “The public should be shocked by these numbers."
The bill would loosen rules for reporting spills and allow drillers to spread wastewater on roads. But opponents say the brine has high levels of radioactivity.
State Senate Republicans say they'll block Gov. Wolf’s appointments to the PUC unless he stops his effort to have Pa. join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.