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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

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EPA sets stricter air emission rules for 3 Philly-area polluters and dozens of others nationwide

Sophia Schmidt·April 15, 2024

The rules will prevent 6,000 tons of toxic air pollutants nationwide each year and decrease cancer risks.

Pollution

$1 million fine levied for major gas leak in western Pa.

Rachel McDevitt·April 12, 2024

The Rager Mountain storage field owned by Equitrans spewed methane gas for nearly two weeks in November 2022. Bloomberg News called it the country’s worst climate disaster that year.

Climate Change Energy

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Centralia, Wash.’s coal plant has to close next year. What can Pa. communities learn from Centralia’s transition?

Rachel McDevitt·April 12, 2024

Centralia – about the size of Johnstown, Pa. – has been cited as a model for how to successfully transition away from coal.

Economy Energy

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Climate advocates rally around a progressive fracking opponent, Pittsburgh-area Rep. Summer Lee

Inside Climate News·April 11, 2024

Lee's campaign said it has endorsements from 14 climate and environmental groups. Her opponent, Bhavini Patel, has support from trade unions.

Climate Change Politics

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EPA announces first federal restrictions on toxic ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water

Zoë Read·April 10, 2024

The new rules will prevent more than 4 million cancer deaths, thousands of premature deaths and tens of thousands of serious illnesses.

Health Pollution Water

Local union workers cheer a new federal rule to modernize the grid, but efficiency experts are unimpressed

Julie Grant·April 5, 2024

The final energy efficiency rule for distribution transformers on the grid is less strict than the DOE’s original proposal, which benefits a local steel plant.

Climate Change Economy Energy

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Environmental group sues cryptocurrency plant and Governor Josh Shapiro

WVIA·April 5, 2024

The group alleges Stronghold Digital Mining's Panther Creek Electric Generating Facility pollutes the environment with the Shapiro administration’s support.

Energy Pollution

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A life dedicated to the Lackawanna River

Kat Bolus·March 29, 2024

How the longtime leader of a conservation group in northeastern Pa. helped clean up the Lackawanna River, and what's next for him and the organization.

Conservation Water Wild Pennsylvania

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Mountain Valley Pipeline fined $34,000 for 29 environmental violations

Roxy Todd·March 28, 2024

Virginia fined the MVP for inadequate erosion controls, impacts to wetlands and other violations. Activists say the fine is far too low.

Energy Pollution

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