environment

Studies will focus on childhood cancer, asthma and birth outcomes

That bond act would, among other things, fund projects to fight climate change including efforts to make communities more resilient to major weather events, such as floods.

Cities are planting trees as one way to try to check the escalating temperatures. But there can be obstacles to that solution.

Wastewater from oil and gas drilling has been used as a cheap dust suppressant in rural Pennsylvania for years.

The bill is seen as a mandate that municipal leaders and environmental groups call a solution in search of a problem.

Gov. Tom Wolf is launching a review of the conventional drilling industry.

Under the regulation, power plants have to start keeping track of their emissions as of July 1, though they won’t have to pay for them yet.

Advocates say the USPS fleet of delivery trucks is perfect for conversion to electric vehicles, which would be in line with state and federal climate goals.

More than half of respondents said climate change is a very serious problem, while another quarter said it was somewhat serious.

Over 10 years, the fee has generated almost $2.3 billion.