Pa. Senate passes bill to let energy companies bypass state agencies for permits
Under the bill, a governor-appointed board would approve permits for energy development and power generation without public hearings. It could waive regulations.
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Pennsylvania Dems push bills linking labor and environment
A package of bills in the General Assembly aims to help the state reduce climate-warming pollution while protecting workers.
Coal transition: Raising fish and a workforce with an economic development grant
The program is one of over 70 funded through a plan to close the TransAlta coal plant in Centralia, Washington.
$1 million fine levied for major gas leak in western Pa.
The Rager Mountain storage field owned by Equitrans spewed methane gas for nearly two weeks in November 2022. Bloomberg News called it the country’s worst climate disaster that year.
Centralia, Wash.’s coal plant has to close next year. What can Pa. communities learn from Centralia’s transition?
Centralia – about the size of Johnstown, Pa. – has been cited as a model for how to successfully transition away from coal.
Josh Shapiro proposes state climate program to replace RGGI, asks for new renewable energy goals
Gov. Shapiro is offering his own version of a controversial program to limit climate-warming pollution from power plants and is setting new goals for renewable energy.
Climate change could contribute to honey declines, study says
Penn State researchers looked at 50 years of data on honey production as a way of measuring how the landscape of available flowers has shifted over that time.
Pa. gains new abandoned gas wells as it sets records capping old ones
Pennsylvania has hundreds of thousands of abandoned gas wells. Last year, the state plugged just 139, while gaining more than 500.
Groups criticize Shapiro’s economic plan for ignoring climate change
They say that Shapiro's 10-year economic plan "will worsen Pennsylvania’s economic position" by linking it to fossil fuels instead of clean energy.
Pennsylvania gets $101 million to clean up old mines
Pennsylvania has 200,000 acres of abandoned mine land and more than 5,000 miles of streams contaminated by abandoned mine runoff.
