A longtime environmental leader is working to put the right to clean air and water and a healthy climate on par with other constitutionally guaranteed rights.
PJM Interconnection is changing how it approves new electricity projects, intending to speed up the process. About 8 in 10 of the more than 2,600 projects waiting for approval are from renewable sources.
A new study shows benzene and other hazardous air pollutants are being released by abandoned oil and gas wells, putting people who live near by at risk. Pennsylvania has hundreds of thousands of these wells.
