How Miners With Black Lung Disease Are Navigating the Pandemic
Living with Black Lung disease, a death sentence for coal miners, is devastating. COVID is making it worse.
Energy
Community Solar Proposal Getting Bipartisan Support in Legislature
Community solar projects are larger than home rooftop panels, but smaller than utility-scale grids. Subscribers use the energy that's generated and get a credit on their electricity bills.
Federal Judges Throw Out ‘Gaping Loophole’ in PA’s Coal Pollution Plan
Coal plants could lower operating temperatures to ‘evade’ stringent limits on nitrogen oxides that contribute to smog. DEP has two years to come up with a new plan.
No ‘bomb trains’: 14 states challenge new rule on LNG Transport by Rail
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Trains carrying liquified natural gas are potentially explosive, yet no federal safety studies were done.
Sunoco asks Environmental Hearing Board to Block New DEP Shutdown of Mariner East Drilling Site
A judge temporarily allows construction to continue at the troubled Chester County site, pending a hearing scheduled for Sept. 1.
What Interior Department’s Victories and Defeats Mean for the Oil Industry
Interior's rule to weaken bird protections that favored the oil industry was thrown out by a judge. But the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will open for drilling.
DEP Fines CNX for Well Failure Near Westmoreland County Reservoir
The natural gas well is near the Beaver Run Reservoir, which provides drinking water for 130,000 people. Water quality was not affected.
Report: Clean Energy Jobs Among Fastest-Growing in State
The clean energy sector saw some of Pennsylvania's highest job growth over the past few years, according to a new state report.
In Pittsburgh, EPA’s Andrew Wheeler Announces Methane Rollbacks for Oil and Gas
The potent greenhouse gas leaks from oil and gas infrastructure -- even big oil companies favored the Obama-ere rule.
Paddle Protest at Marsh Creek Lake Calls for Mariner East Shutdown
Thousands of gallons of drilling mud from construction of the Mariner East pipeline contaminated a state park lake. Protestors are calling for its shutdown.
