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May 26, 2023 | 12:06 PM

The Supreme Court has narrowed the scope of the Clean Water Act

By Nina Totenberg/ NPR
The Shell ethane cracker as it nears completion in June 2022.
May 25, 2023 | 10:07 AM

Shell’s air pollution violations result in $10 million fine for Beaver County ethane cracker

By Reid Frazier
The coal plant in Shamokin Dam, Pa., is a local landmark that delivered electricity to this region for more than six decades. It closed in 2014. Next to it, a brand new natural gas power plant is under construction. The Sunbury Pipeline will feed Marcellus Shale gas into that plant.
Updated: May 24, 2023 | 5:27 pm

Pennsylvania high court to consider plan to make power plants pay for greenhouse gas emissions

By Marc Levy/The Associated Press
Workers haul away the carcass of a dead whale on the beach in Seaside Park N.J. on March 2, 2023. On May 3, 2023, a group of Republican New Jersey lawmakers and opponents of offshore wind called for a 30 to 60-day moratorium on offshore wind site preparation work while a spate of whale deaths on the US East Coast is examined.
May 19, 2023 | 11:02 AM

New Jersey official says recent spate of whale deaths is linked to climate change

By Tennyson Donyea/ WHYY
FILE: A natural gas pipeline crosses the Tiadaghton State Forest.
May 16, 2023 | 11:18 AM

Methane leaks from pipelines targeted by proposed federal rule

The rule is part of the Biden Administration’s pledge to reduce methane emissions 30% below 2020 levels by 2030.

By Rachel McDevitt
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is a cap-and-trade program intended to cut carbon emissions from the power sector.
May 13, 2023 | 5:00 AM

Study: Pa. would benefit by joining Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Membership would cut emissions, raise revenue and speed adoption of renewable fuels, report says.

By Jon Hurdle for Inside Climate News
A flare at Shell's Monaca plant February 13, 2023.
May 12, 2023 | 10:40 AM

Environmental groups sue Shell over air pollution violations at cracker plant in Beaver County

By Julie Grant/The Allegheny Front
Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, which closed Sept. 20, 2019.
May 11, 2023 | 6:08 PM

Three Mile Island enters new phase of cleanup

Three Mile Island Unit 2 is moving into an active clean-up period known as DECON.

By Rachel McDevitt
The Shell ethane cracker as it nears completion in June 2022.
May 11, 2023 | 12:22 PM

Shell’s air pollution problems have some in Beaver County questioning its ability to be a good neighbor

By Reid Frazier
Stephanie Wein, a Clean Water & Conservation Advocate with Penn Environment, talked about green legislation that Pa. residents can support like the Regional GreenhouseGas Initiative, at a press press conference calling out Pa.’s top polluters at City Hall in Philadelphia on May 9, 2023. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
May 11, 2023 | 7:28 AM

Power plants among the largest industrial climate polluters in Pennsylvania

In a new report, environmental advocates crunched EPA data to call out Pennsylvania’s “dirty dozen.”
By Sophia Schmidt/ WHYY
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