As energy demand from data centers grows, the plants will remain open through 2032, and have more time to meet water pollution standards.

It’s well known that smoking can lead to lung cancer. New research also finds a connection between air pollution and lung cancer. A team of epidemiologists have been looking into the causes of various ...

An environmental engineer is starting a new act as a storyteller and educator for local waterways. A state legislator in Ohio wants to bring back the state’s elk. We take a peak into the springtime ...

Residents fear they could lose their homes and properties if the PUC grants eminent domain for the project that will power data centers in Virginia.

Julie Grant got her start in public radio at age 19 while at Miami University in Ohio. After studying land ethics in graduate school at Kent State University, Julie covered environmental issues in the ...

A family-friendly event at Powdermill Nature Reserve presented an opportunity to talk to residents about stream health and climate change.

Note: To find woodcock events at state parks throughout Pennsylvania, visit DCNR’s calendar of events. In his famous book, A Sand County Almanac, conservationist Aldo Leopold dedicates an entire essay ...

Hannah Hohman and Koa Reitz stood on an old bridge on a sunny afternoon, looking down at the confluence of two streams. Hohman glanced back and forth between the iced ...

A 12-foot-tall slice into the dark gray core of a model nuclear microreactor looms on the shop floor of the new Westinghouse Electric Company factory in Etna. It’s dotted with blank holes missing the ...

As home gardeners are cleaning up their spring flower beds and vegetable patches, they might notice signs of a relatively new invasive species that’s made its way across Pennsylvania. Though Asian ...

On a Saturday morning in March, a demolition crew took down the smokestacks at the Homer City Generating Station. The plant – first commissioned in 1969 – once employed hundreds of workers. In an ...

The Allegheny Health Department has fined U.S. Steel $2 million for violating state laws on hydrogen sulfide emissions at its Clairton plant. The county found the company’s Clairton coke works caused ...