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Under increasing pressure from environmental activists, President Biden took a dramatic step last month to usher in the use of electric heat pumps in U.S. homes, even though for most households, it would significantly raise heating costs.

A Philadelphia television news helicopter returning from an assignment photographing Christmas lights earlier this week plunged into a southern New Jersey forest "at very high speed," broke apart, then caught fire after it crashed, killing both occupants, a federal crash investigator said Friday.

Residents of the small Icelandic fishing village near where a volcano erupted were told Friday they could return home.

The Supreme Court has announced it will hear a challenge over a federal rule on pollution across state lines after a group of red states challenged the regulation.

A pilot and a photographer for WPVI-TV, a Philadelphia ABC affiliate, died Tuesday in a helicopter crash near Washington Township, New Jersey.

A river that runs through Maine's capital city has risen to levels not seen in decades in the aftermath of a heavy storm, and the state's governor urged people in heavily impacted areas to avoid travel Wednesday.

A year after pleading no contest to criminal charges, one of Pennsylvania's leading natural gas companies is poised to drill and frack in the rural community where it was banned for a dozen years for polluting the water supply.

A coal ash leak at a power plant in Centertown, Kentucky, sent three workers to the hospital Wednesday.

Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday said the U.S. space program intends to land an international astronaut on the moon by the end of the decade.

Megan Michaud and her family of five lost power for three days after a powerful storm throttled her home state of Maine, and a new challenge is creeping up on her: It's almost time for Christmas.