New EPA rules cut carbon, mercury and other pollution from coal and gas plants

Reid FrazierApril 26, 2024

The new rules include limits on climate-altering carbon dioxide from existing coal and new natural gas power plants. 

Climate ChangeEnergy

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

Rachel McDevittApril 12, 2024

Centralia – about the size of Johnstown, Pa. – has been cited as a model for how to successfully transition away from coal. 

EconomyEnergy

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

Reid FrazierMarch 28, 2024

The Clearfield County project would be built on 2,700 acres of former mine land northwest of State College.

Climate ChangeEnergy

Preserving Pennsylvania’s coal history to look to the future

Kat BolusMarch 22, 2024

A treasure trove of coal history is being preserved in northeastern Pennsylvania. There are so many records, it will take at least a decade to archive it all.

CultureEnergyHistory

Outside a coal and steel conference, residents rally against pollution

Reid FrazierNovember 9, 2023

About 30 people attended a rally organized by local environmental groups to protest outside of a conference about metallurgical coal co-sponsored by Norfolk Southern.

EnergyEnvironmental JusticeHealthPollution

New documentary buries Appalachia’s ‘King Coal’

Glynis BoardSeptember 6, 2023

A new documentary looks at the death of coal in Appalachia, and how communities entrenched in the culture of coal mining are grieving.

Climate ChangeCultureEnergy

How EPA’s proposed power plant rules could impact Pennsylvania

WHYYMay 19, 2023

The proposal comes as the dangerous impacts of human-caused climate change become increasingly clear.

Climate ChangeEnergyPollution

PA lawmakers examine cryptocurrency’s energy waste

Rachel McDevittMay 19, 2023

State lawmakers are looking into the effects cryptocurrency has on the climate, as the process of generating digital currency saps energy.

EnergyPolitics

New research supports Pennsylvania’s inclusion in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Inside Climate NewsMay 15, 2023

By joining RGGI, Pennsylvania could speed its pace in cutting carbon emissions, raise new revenue and boost the use of renewable fuel.

Climate ChangeEnergyPoliticsPollution

Nearly half of Pennsylvania’s top 12 greenhouse gas emitters are in the Pittsburgh region

Jillian ForstadtMay 12, 2023

PennEnvironment's "Dirty Dozen" list includes 5 power plants in Western Pa.

Climate ChangeEnergy