The Rager Mountain storage field owned by Equitrans spewed methane gas for nearly two weeks in November 2022. Bloomberg News called it the country’s worst climate disaster that year.
The final energy efficiency rule for distribution transformers on the grid is less strict than the DOE’s original proposal, which benefits a local steel plant.
A company wants to lease land in the tri-state region of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia to store industrial carbon dioxide emissions deep underground.
The city of Pittsburgh’s efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions have stalled over the past decade, putting the city on track to miss its 2030 climate goal of cutting emissions in half.
Gov. Shapiro is offering his own version of a controversial program to limit climate-warming pollution from power plants and is setting new goals for renewable energy.
