Marie Cusick

Senate Bill 510 recognizes the plants as carbon free energy and adds nuclear power to the state's Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard

Pennsylvanians are growing increasingly concerned about climate change and want the state to do more to address it, according to a new poll conducted by Franklin & Marshall College in partnership with PA Post.

The nuclear watchdog group is asking federal regulators to analyze what the group calls a "potentially dangerous and risky condition"

Opponents criticized the measure as too expensive and said it squanders an opportunity to fully address climate change.

Draft legislation aimed at helping Pennsylvania's ailing nuclear industry would reclassify the plants as "zero emission energy" and create new requirements about how electric companies are to purchase power.

Jobs in Pennsylvania's solar industry grew 10 percent last year, while declining three percent nationally, according to a new analysis.

About a dozen children dressed in Lorax costumes went to Gov. Tom Wolf's office Monday. They wanted to give him petitions urging action on climate change and Pennsylvania's environmental rights amendment.

The partial federal government shutdown is slowing the approval process for construction permits and several other environmental-related issues, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection.

Natural gas companies must pay millions of dollars in outstanding impact fees to the state, following a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling.

More than half of the country's species predicted to be gone by 2035