Environment and nature

Social affairsApr 26, 2022

Coal interests sue to block Pennsylvania's carbon policy

Coal-related interests are suing to block the centerpiece of Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to fight climate change, a carbon-pricing policy that will impose a cost for emitting planet-warming carbon dioxide from fossil fuel-fired power plants

BusinessApr 22, 2022

Big greenhouse gas state taking biggest climate step yet

More than two years after he started work on it, Gov. Tom Wolf is set to enact the centerpiece of his plan to fight climate change

Environment and natureApr 12, 2022

Pittsburgh to ban single-use plastic bags in April 2023

Council members in Pittsburgh have voted unanimously to ban single-use plastic bags at businesses in a year

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Government and politicsApr 10, 2022

GOP's energy promises face limits in Pa. governor's race

Republican candidates for Pennsylvania governor are pledging to open up natural gas production, but there are constraints to what a governor can do

Environment and natureApr 8, 2022

Governor appeals court order blocking carbon emissions plan

Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration is asking the state’s highest court to let the centerpiece of his plan to fight climate change take effect and make Pennsylvania the first major fossil fuel state to adopt a carbon pricing policy

Government and politicsApr 6, 2022

Pennsylvania court blocks governor's carbon emissions plan

A Pennsylvania court is blocking the centerpiece of Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to fight climate change, the latest challenge to the Democrat’s effort to make Pennsylvania the first major fossil-fuel state to adopt a carbon pricing policy

BusinessApr 4, 2022

Lawmakers fail to override key element of gov's climate plan

Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled Legislature has failed in a last-ditch effort to block the centerpiece of Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to fight climate change, a regulation requiring fossil fuel-fired power plants to pay a price for every ton of carbon dioxide they emit

BusinessMar 30, 2022

Forum gets tense in GOP's sharp-elbowed US Senate primary

The first public appearance between the highest-profile Republicans running for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania quickly became chippy

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Environment and natureFeb 18, 2022

‘Irreversible’: No easy fix for water fouled by gas driller

One of the best-known pollution cases ever to emerge from the U.S. drilling and fracking boom has entered a difficult new phase as prosecutors pursue criminal charges against Pennsylvania’s busiest gas driller