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A road lined with green trees is wet with oil and gas wastewater

Former DEP secretary wants spreading conventional oil and gas wastewater on roads to remain illegal

Kara Holsopple·June 7, 2024

State regulators haven't issued a permit for conventional oil and gas well owners to dump wastewater on roads for years, but it still happens.

Energy Pollution Water Your Environment Update

A section of pipeline and other construction equipment in front of a house that sits in the background.

Mountain Valley Pipeline’s completion delayed again, builder says

Curtis Tate·May 29, 2024

Equitrans Midstream is still doing hydrostatic testing. A section of the pipeline ruptured earlier this month during testing.

Energy Pollution Your Environment Update

Your Lawn Is an ‘Ecological Deadzone.’ The Case For Replacing It with Native Plants

Kara Holsopple·May 21, 2024

Entomologist Doug Tallamy says ditching half of our lawn space could make room for planet-saving biodiversity.

Conservation Wild Pennsylvania Your Environment Update

New film takes on aquatic invasives in Pennsylvania’s natural areas

Julie Grant·May 15, 2024

The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy travels to three watersheds to feature invasive plants and fish and what people can do to prevent their spread.

Conservation Water Wild Pennsylvania Your Environment Update

A tellow sign with bold, black lettering against the Encina plant in Point Township.

Activists celebrate as plans for a chemical recycling plant are canceled

Kara Holsopple·April 26, 2024

The proposed plant would have turned plastic waste into chemicals along the Susquehanna River.

Pollution Water Your Environment Update

Attorney General files criminal charges against Shell on whistleblower reports over pipeline spills

Reid Frazier·April 19, 2024

Former pipeline employees told investigators the company was underreporting spills of drilling mud during construction of a pipeline that feeds the company’s ethane cracker.

Energy Your Environment Update

Two men using poles with grabbers on the ends pick up trash in the brush near the beach

Tiny plastic pieces top the list of trash on Great Lakes beaches

Julie Grant·April 17, 2024

The nonprofit Alliance for the Great Lakes analyzed 20 years of data from volunteer beach cleanups.

Pollution Water Your Environment Update

Why conservationists are pushing to get the new Farm Bill reauthorized

Kara Holsopple·April 12, 2024

The legislation that sets agricultural policy, including conservation programs, is being held up in Congress.

Climate Change Conservation Food and Agriculture News Wild Pennsylvania Your Environment Update

A young girl in a yellow sweatshirt holds a museum specimen of a great horned owl in the pal of her hand.

A school day built around birds gives students many ways into their world

Kara Holsopple·April 5, 2024

The Campus Laboratory School at Carlow University taught students about birds through art, music, poetry, machine learning and even sports.

Conservation Wild Pennsylvania Wildlife Your Environment Update

A woman stands in front of a house holding a sign that reads, "Stop SOBE."

Paused Ohio chemical recycling plant puts spotlight on Appalachia as ‘prime target’ for the controversial practice

Kristina Marusic·March 27, 2024

Chemical recycling uses heat, chemicals or both to break down plastic waste into component parts for reuse as plastic feedstocks or as fuel.

Environmental Justice Health Pollution Your Environment Update

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