Pipeline construction has been disrupting residents’ lives since November, according to the management at Glen Riddle Station apartments in Media.

The Independent Fiscal Office reports the state’s average natural gas price from January to March was 64 percent higher than the same time last year.

Philadelphia Gas Works — the largest publicly owned gas utility in the country — has a role in utility trade organizations that are working against efforts to transform fossil fuel providers.

The bills come nearly a year after a statewide investigative grand jury found that state regulators failed to protect the public from the health impacts of fracking.

Supporters say the bill creates reasonable criteria for the industry. Opponents say it poses a risk to public health and the environment.

One presenter said, ““Every single future scenario that says how we avoid drastic climate change is based on having some proportion of carbon taken and put in the ground.”

Last week’s votes mark a shift in attitude from last year, when none of the committees voted to recommend the draft rule.

Elizabeth Kolbert’s new book examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation.

Delaware County’s district attorney said contamination could have been prevented if companies that made the chemicals “had been honest with consumers.”