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The Pa. Department of Environmental Protection took this photo of the leak at the Rager Mountain storage facility as part of its investigation.
April 11, 2024 | 5:01 PM

$1 million fine levied for major gas leak in western Pa.

The Rager Mountain storage field owned by Equitrans spewed methane gas for nearly two weeks.

By Rachel McDevitt
The TransAlta Centralia Generation station pictured on March 6, 2024. (Jeremy Long - WITF)
April 10, 2024 | 12:38 PM

Photos: StateImpact Pennsylvania visits Centralia, Wash.

By Jeremy Long
Rainbow trout swim in a tank at Onalaska High School in Onalaska, Washington on March 5, 2024. (Jeremy Long - WITF)
April 10, 2024 | 5:00 AM

Coal transition: Raising fish and a workforce with an economic development grant

Grants totaling $65,000 were used to upgrade a high school’s fish hatchery program.

By Rachel McDevitt
The TransAlta Centralia Generation station pictured on March 8, 2024. Mount Rainer is visible to the left of the plant. (Jeremy Long - WITF)
April 10, 2024 | 5:00 AM

Centralia, Wash.’s coal plant has to close next year. Can Pa. communities learn from Centralia’s transition?

The western Washington town has been cited as a model for how to successfully transition away from coal. StateImpact Pennsylvania spent several days there to explore how time and money has affected preparations for what lies ahead.

By Rachel McDevitt
An electric bus Lewis County Transit purchased with the help of grant funds from TransAlta pictured on March 6, 2024. (Jeremy Long - WITF)
April 10, 2024 | 5:00 AM

Coal transition: Betting on hydrogen with an energy technology grant

Community leaders are hoping hydrogen can help replace some of the jobs lost from the coal industry.

By Rachel McDevitt
An elk mount surveys the Juice Box Public House music venue. The mount is a holdover from when the building housed an Elks Club. (Jeremy Long - WITF)
April 10, 2024 | 5:00 AM

Coal transition: How a weatherization grant helped a music venue build community

The Juice Box got an $80,000 grant in 2022 to help replace the roof and the failing heating system.

By Rachel McDevitt
The Asia Vision LNG carrier ship sits docked at the Cheniere Energy Inc. terminal in this aerial photograph taken over Sabine Pass, Texas, U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016. Cheniere said in a statement last month. Cheniere Energy Inc. expects to ship the first cargo of liquefied natural gas on Wednesday to Brazil with another tanker to be loaded a few days later, marking the historic start of U.S. shale exports and sending its shares up the most in more than a month. Photographer: Lindsey Janies/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Updated: April 11, 2024 | 8:49 am

House GOP lawmakers rail against Biden’s liquefied natural gas export approval pause

By Ben Wasserstein
A ground-mounted solar panel at Millersville University tracks the sun's path across the sky.
March 29, 2024 | 9:04 AM

Largest solar project in Pa. to be built on former coal mine with $90M federal grant

By Reid Frazier
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks at a news conference at the United Association Local 524 union building in Scranton, Pa., on Wednesday, March 13, 2024. Shapiro announced he would back legislation to make power plant owners in Pennsylvania pay for their planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions and require utilities in the nation's third-biggest power-producer to buy more electricity from renewable sources. (AP Photo/Michael Rubinkam)
March 13, 2024 | 5:46 PM

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

Shapiro estimates the proposals would save ratepayers $250 million over five years and create 14,500 jobs.

By Rachel McDevitt
Maya van Rossum, with the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, interrupts Gov. Josh Shapiro's speech promoting a regional hydrogen hub at the Steamfitters Local 420 union hall in Northeast Philadelphia March 11, 2024. (Susan Phillips/WHYY)
March 13, 2024 | 10:31 AM

Environmentalists clash with Gov. Shapiro at hydrogen energy meeting in Northeast Philly

The Delaware Riverkeeper Network and other groups objected to the fact that the public meeting was being held at the steamfitters union hall.
By Susan Phillips
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