environment

“What would I say now? I would say because of the regional and local health concerns and concerns about climate change, we should stop fracking–everywhere."

Proposed bill would require Legislature to OK Pennsylvania becoming part of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Without the fee, Dawson said there is a risk Tompkins County will just swap one trash problem for another.

Natural gas is mostly used for heating homes or fueling power plants. But when it comes out of the ground, it contains another key ingredient — ethane, a building block of plastics.

To turn ethane into the building block of plastic, petrochemical companies are investing in ethane cracker plants, raising concerns about what these facilities could mean for air pollution and climate change.

Pennsylvania’s Republican US Senator introduced a resolution he hopes will enable Congress to defeat future presidents’ fracking bans in court.

Rules on coal ash ponds, wastewater from coal-fired power plants are targeted

Plastic doesn’t go away, but it breaks down in the environment. One bottle can degrade into hundreds, even thousands, of tiny pieces of plastic the size of a grain of sand, which can be eaten by birds or fish.

Two Democratic state lawmakers have introduced a bill that would give customers in cafes, fast food shops and even in some restaurants, the option to use their own container for coffee, water, or to bring home left overs.

Cheryl LaFleur fears regulator’s credibility is hurt by more party-line voting