Curbing methane emissions from natural gas production isn’t just about combating climate change. For many conservatives in Western states, it’s just good business. We visit a Wyoming startup that’s helping oil & gas companies save money and keep their workers...
A deal struck as part of the state budget process could hamstring the Department of Environmental Protection and put permitting decisions in the hands of unqualified private actors. One former DEP chief warns these amendments would set a disastrous...
When the Pennsylvania Water Trails Partnership released its Strategic Plan for the Water Trails Program in 2016, it recommended the development of new funding opportunities for water trail managers across the State. To that end, PEC worked closely with DCNR,...
The Pennsylvania Senate and, by all appearances, Governor Wolf, have struck a deal that aims to mitigate the Commonwealth’s fiscal issues at the sole expense of environmental protections. What have they done? Essentially, they have proposed to nullify the Department of...
Led by local volunteers and guided by a new toolkit PEC helped to create, the four-year-old Schuylkill River Town Program is about to enter an exciting new phase. Launched in 2013, the program initially focused on Conshohocken, Norristown, and Phoenixville,...
Earlier this month the General Assembly passed an overall spending framework for the state budget. Governor Wolf allowed this legislation to become law without his signature. Over the past several weeks, negotiations have turned toward how to pay for, and...
Pennsylvania Legacies is taking a brief summer break and will return to our regular schedule next week. In the interim, we’re reposting our June segment on one of the biggest environmental news stories of the summer: a major state Supreme...
Along its 47-mile journey to the Allegheny River, Oil Creek winds through the heart of Pennsylvania’s historic Oil Region, birthplace of the commercial oil industry. Here, the world’s first large-scale petroleum production operations began shortly after the discovery of vast crude oil reserves along the Oil...
The National Parks system is among the most beloved institutions in the U.S., more popular than every federal agency but the Postal Service. But “America’s best idea” is also one of our most neglected assets… and it’s about to take...
The General Assembly has left Harrisburg, two days after Governor Wolf allowed a General Fund budget bill to become law without his signature. While there is apparent agreement on how much money will be allocated for state programs over the...
A look inside PEC’s new white paper, Achieving Deep Carbon Reductions: Paths for Pennsylvania’s Energy Future, based on our March 2017 conference of the same name. PEC President Davitt Woodwell chats with Energy & Climate Program Manager Lindsay Baxter.
Drinking water from the Delaware River is shared by Pennsylvania and three other states according to an elaborate, decades-old formula. For years, an agreement among the parties has allowed for some variability in that formula for the sake of maintaining...