Since a toxic algal bloom left hundreds of thousands of Toledo-area residents without safe drinking water in 2014, scientists have been working to curb the yearly threat. The state has funded efforts ...

When the Army Corps of Engineers removed a dam on the Monongahela River a couple of years ago, the water level dropped more than some businesses expected. Researchers are working on buoys that combat ...

Work began earlier this month on a billion-dollar tunnel project intended to reduce untreated sewage and stormwater in the region’s rivers — contamination that fouls waterways, threatens public health ...

In the same week that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would give Pennsylvania more than $39 million to address PFAS contamination in drinking water, the agency also said it ...

The Trump administration is drastically cutting the budget, and reorganizing the U.S. Forest Service, moving its headquarters and research facilities to western states. In Pennsylvania, four research ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro announced he was moving to extend the lives of two Western Pennsylvania coal-fired power plants for four more years. The decision means that Keystone Generating Station in Armstrong ...

A study by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection found the liquid runoff from Pennsylvania landfills that take solid oil and gas waste poses no “significant” threat to the public ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is considering Shell’s request for a new permit for its Beaver County ethane cracker, which turns natural gas into plastic. The company said it ...

Pennsylvanians are already feeling the effects of climate change, like more extreme weather, and the trends are only going to continue. A new statewide effort is looking to create a network to help ...

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 ...

Driven by the growth of data centers for artificial intelligence,, and electricity prices are surging. In Pennsylvania, some consumers are seeing double-digit price hikes. At the same time, President ...

Is January too early to think about spring flowers blooming? According to a new scientific paper, we aren’t waiting as long for those first native wildflowers to bloom in Pennsylvania thanks to ...