WASHINGTON –Representatives Matt Cartwright (PA-08) and Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson (PA-15) introduced legislation on Monday to clean up America’s abandoned coal mines, by ensuring states have enough resources to restore polluted sites to their original condition and to spur new economic...
Rob Malley’s older brother was an avid hunter and fisherman who loved being in the woods while he was growing up. “He was in an accident, became a quadriplegic, and all of that was kind of closed to him,” said...
Pennsylvania state lawmakers rallied Wednesday behind a clean-energy bill that would slash carbon emissions from the electric power sector at least 90 percent by 2040. The bill, known as the Climate Change Mitigation and Energy Transition Act, would encourage the...
PBS39 News Tonight for Aug. 21, 2019. Stories include back-to-school shopping on a budget at thrift shops; a $1.8 million plan to turn an old SEPTA rail line into three miles of trail in Richland Township, Bucks County; and a...
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The opportunity to study off campus is a perfect way for students to broaden their educational experience. But study abroad may not be appropriate for all students: Some may not be able to afford the costs...
Spring Garden Street through Center City may only be 2.1 miles long, but it represents an opportunity for the cycling community — in Philadelphia and across the entire East Coast. In 2009, the street was selected through a Center City Greenway...
A stand of old-growth hemlocks with trunks nearly four feet in diameter towers over a trail cut along a creek shrouded in mountain laurel that ripples through Laurel Hill State Park, part of one of the largest state park systems...
First-term Gov. Phil Murphy (D) “announced Monday that the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has formally adopted two rules that will allow the state to rejoin the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)”, reports HJ Mai for Utility Dive on June 18. The membership takes effect Jan. 1, 2020, when New...
PEC Vice President Janet Sweeney appeared on WBRE-TV’s “PA Live!” to talk about the kickoff of the Get Your Tail on the Trail Northeast PA Chapter:
FALLS TOWNSHIP >> The Conrail embankment in Falls Township is no longer an obstacle for users of the Delaware Canal Towpath. A culvert pipe still carries the canal’s water through the embankment, but towpath users no longer have to detour...
BRIDGEPORT – About 80 paddlers participating in the 21st Annual Schuylkill River Sojourn and several area representatives celebrated the newly completed river landing in the borough on Thursday. The Bridgeport water landing allowed sojourners to paddle around the Norristown Dam...
Deep in the Moshannon State Forest in Elk County, Pennsylvania, there’s a sloped, barren patch of land surrounded by an otherwise healthy forest. It looks as if a tornado has torn through here — the earth has been churned up,...