According to a Franklin & Marshall College/StateImpact Pennsylvania poll released Thursday, more than two-thirds of voters say the state should be doing more to address it.
Millions of Pennsylvania drivers make an annual trip to their local auto shop to test their vehicles' emissions. Two decades after this ritual began, some are questioning its necessity.
The gas industry spent $5.2 million last year in lobbying lawmakers. Environmental groups together spent about $300,000. What is their money buying them?
The company sites "market challenges." Natural gas and renewable energy have been making up a larger amount of the country’s electric grid, eating into coal and nuclear power.
Environmental groups argue that longwall mining, the technique Consol would use to mine beneath the stream, can cause ground beneath streams to fall in.
The state extended the public comment period for the pipeline after environmental groups asked for more time to review the pipeline’s impact on waterways and local communities.
Last August, two men died after inhaling a toxic gas in a confined vault inside the plant. The Department of Labor has now fined the two companies responsible for their deaths.
As Pennsylvania’s gas boom helps propel the United States away from coal-fired power, one energy researcher says the impact on climate change will be a wash.
The Interior Secretary was in Bethlehem Township, home to Black Dog Hollow, a 100-foot tall pile of coal waste left by a mine that closed 30 years ago.