A team of archaeologists is looking for signs of early life in the Americas at the bottom of Lake Erie. A Pennsylvania environmental group is out with a new playbook to move the state away from fossil fuels. The landmark environmental rights amendment in Pennsylvania’s constitution was created by a man who grew up in coal country. An artist is donating the proceeds from a series of drawings to a central Pennsylvania watershed group. The pigment used in the artworks comes from acid mine drainage pollution in Appalachian waterways. Allegheny County Council will consider a ban on building controversial AI data centers on county property.
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Artist creates mining sludge drawings to help clean up a polluted watershed - Sally Veach's family members leased land in central Pennsylvania to coal companies in the 1800s. Her drawings benefit the organization cleaning up the legacy pollution mining caused. 
PA Game Commission to end Deputy Game Warden program, partially due to recent Supreme Court decision - The program will end on Sept. 1, affecting about 140 deputy wardens across the state.-
Celebrating Over 50 Years of Your Constitutional Right to Clean Air and Pure Water - Pennsylvania was among the first governments in the world to guarantee its citizens the right to a clean environment. In practice, that didn’t mean much — until now. 
Archaeologists dig in Lake Erie, looking for relics of the Ice Age - Underwater archaeology may hold the keys to discovering how ancient humans lived before seas rose. “Everywhere people have looked, they've found...preserved things left behind.”
Remembering the ‘visionary’ author of Pennsylvania’s Environmental Rights Amendment - Franklin Kury led Pennsylvania to become one of the first governments in the world to adopt a constitutional amendment guaranteeing a healthy environment as a basic right.
Policy playbook urges Pa. lawmakers look to renewables, not fossil fuels, for energy affordability - The playbook calls for legalizing community solar, which are neighborhood-scale solar arrays that people nearby can subscribe to directly.
Allegheny County Council bill could ban data centers on county-owned properties
