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Pa. heat advisories are outpacing the average rate this summer. Climate change plays a role

Rachel McDevitt·July 22, 2024

Since June, 18 heat advisories have been issued in Pennsylvania - that’s 13 more than the average for this time period over the last two decades.

Climate Change Health

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Neighborhoods in Pa. cities can get up to 13 degrees hotter due to urban environment

StateImpact Pennsylvania·July 17, 2024

The heat is absorbed and released by buildings, roads and pavement. It's worse in neighborhoods with low incomes and higher populations of people of color.

Climate Change Environmental Justice

‘We’re loading the dice’: Scientists say record heat is due to climate change

Reid Frazier·June 19, 2024

Pennsylvania is expected to have more than a month of 90-degree temperatures in a year by mid-century, up from an average of five days.

Climate Change

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Pa. environmental education programs receive $1 million from state

Rachel McDevitt·May 30, 2024

This year’s projects range from running summer camps to helping people protect their homes from stormwater.

Conservation Environmental Justice

Heaviest Pa. storms drop 60% more rain than they used to, report says

Rachel McDevitt·May 21, 2024

Climate change is causing a warmer atmosphere that holds more moisture, which can fuel heavy rain events and flash floods.

Climate Change

$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

Josh Shapiro proposes state climate program to replace RGGI, asks for new renewable energy goals

Rachel McDevitt·March 14, 2024

Gov. Shapiro is offering his own version of a controversial program to limit climate-warming pollution from power plants and is setting new goals for renewable energy.

Climate Change Energy

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Pa. gains new abandoned gas wells as it sets records capping old ones

Rachel McDevitt·February 27, 2024

Pennsylvania has hundreds of thousands of abandoned gas wells. Last year, the state plugged just 139, while gaining more than 500.

Climate Change Energy Pollution

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Pennsylvania gets $101 million to clean up old mines

Rachel McDevitt·February 6, 2024

Pennsylvania has 200,000 acres of abandoned mine land and more than 5,000 miles of streams contaminated by abandoned mine runoff.

Conservation Pollution Water Wild Pennsylvania

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EPA terminates $15M climate justice grant to Pittsburgh and Philly non-profits

Map shows what’s possible with federal clean energy investment in Pa.

Trump’s 2-year reprieve gives coal plants ‘a free pass to pollute’

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