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A Pennsylvania lawmaker is urging the Wolf administration to testify about inaccurate taxpayer-funded modeling for the cost of joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).

The State Senate returns to Harrisburg this week and one of the items on the agenda is a meeting Tuesday of the Senate Environmental Resources and Ene...

Together, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia are unlikely to reach Chesapeake Bay pollution limits set in place by the Environmental Protection Agency in time for a 2025 deadline, according to a report released Wednesday by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

The grant funds will help pay for 12 education, design, and engineering efforts to protect and restore the 3-county Delaware Estuary Coastal Zone.

Together, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia are unlikely to reach Chesapeake Bay pollution limits set in place by the Environmental Protection Agency in time for a 2025 deadline, according to a report released Wednesday by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

After years of back and forth in an asbestos study at Rockhill Quarry, area residents and a state Senator are again asking DEP for a permanent shutdown.

The  violations primarily consist of sanitary sewer overflows – typically in the form of wastewater overflowing from manholes – and operation and maintenance violations under its state-issued permits. 

A sampling of the interview snippets that stuck out this year

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission this week offered tips for Pennsylvanians to save money on utility bills by winterizing their homes. Home winterization

Gov. Wolf announced $17.4 million in grant funding for projects in 33 counties across the Chesapeake Bay Watershed to improve the health of local streams, rivers, and lakes by reducing nutrient and sediment pollution.