Your Environment Update

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Warning signs line the Santa Susana Mountain range near Southern California Gas Company's fenced-off Aliso Canyon facility. A well at the site has been leaking methane since October. Photo: Scott L via Flickr

Your Environment Update for January 6, 2016

The Allegheny FrontJanuary 6, 2016

Some are calling a methane leak in Southern California the worst environmental disaster since the BP oil spill. And it's likely to go on for months.

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Duke Energy’s North Allegheny Windpower Project east of Pittsburgh features 35 wind turbines and is capable of producing enough energy to power roughly 21,000 homes. Photo courtesy Duke Energy

Your Environment Update for December 16, 2015

The Allegheny FrontDecember 16, 2015

Democratic lawmakers have negotiated a five-year extension of federal wind and solar incentives designed to encourage more renewable energy production in the U.S.

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Negotiators look over the new text of the COP21 climate agreement, December 9, 2015. Photo: Benjamin Géminel / COP21

Your Environment Update for December 9, 2015

The Allegheny FrontDecember 9, 2015

Negotiators continue to hammer out a climate change agreement in Paris. But huge questions remain about how strong and ambitious it will be.

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Energy

Pennsylvania is on the cusp of a solar energy boom. Some communities want to fight it.

RGGI, Behind the Rhetoric: What We Know About the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Groups Sue EPA over Coal Plant Air Pollution in Indiana County

Climate

With Biden vow to rejoin Paris Agreement, cities and states look forward to federal partnership on climate

Environmentalists see opportunity for Pennsylvania legislature in 2021

Pennsylvania is on the cusp of a solar energy boom. Some communities want to fight it.

Health

Groups Sue EPA over Coal Plant Air Pollution in Indiana County

State Gives $2.5 Million to Pitt to Study Health Impacts of Fracking

Study: Pa. Heart Failure Patients Near Fracking More Likely to be Hospitalized

Water

State Gives $34 Million for Water Cleanup

Groups Look to Protect Pennsylvania’s Lake Erie Watershed with Common Goals

Central Pa. Counties Get $6M to Help Reduce Pollution to the Chesapeake Bay

Your Environment Update

Your Environment Update for January 6, 2016

Your Environment Update for December 16, 2015

Your Environment Update for December 9, 2015