Rachel McDevitt | StateImpact Pennsylvania

The owner of the closed Three Mile Island nuclear plant hopes to have a new license – and a new name for the plant – to operate in three years.

Recent measurements from a climate pollution-sensing airplane show oil and gas sites are leaking methane at four times the rate reported to federal regulators.

The company that owns one reactor at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg is floating the idea of reopening the shuttered nuclear plant. TMI’s Unit 2 reactor partially melted down in 1979 and never came back online. The accident caused the evacuation of an estimated 80,000 people from central Pennsylvania.

A coalition of environmental, faith, and economic development groups is calling for the federal government to make it easier to access disaster relief after flooding.

Pennsylvania College of Technology, the nonprofit Energy Efficiency Alliance, and the immigrant rights group CASA teamed up to create Building Green Futures. This pilot program in York graduated its second class of energy efficiency workers, who may help fill a growing need.

Federal tax credits meant to drive investment to energy communities and low income areas are working, according to recent analyses, but those communities may not be seeing results yet.

Commonwealth Court is stopping Pennsylvania’s effort to join a cap-and-trade program targeting power plant emissions.

Engineers at Penn State are trying to figure out the relationship between flooding in Middletown, Pennsylvania and rainfall rates, soil moisture and streams that were paved over decades ago.

State College Community Land Trust has a program designed not only to help people afford a home, but to renovate the home to be as energy-efficient as possible.

Shifting to clean electricity will require many more major transmission lines, something residents of some areas may not want. The infrastructure bill in Congress could make the lines easier to build.