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

A team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh found children living near shale gas activities in Southwest Pennsylvania had a higher risk of developing lymphoma. But the group found no association between oil and gas activity and other childhood cancers, including Ewing’s sarcoma.

A new study found higher levels of radioactive materials in rivers and streams near municipal wastewater treatment plants that handled runoff from landfills that accept fracking waste from Pennsylvania.

A team at Penn State received a $25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study reduction in dairy farm methane emissions using “climate-smart” practices.

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.

A nonprofit that helps local groups work together to get solar energy for their homes and businesses is setting up a co-op in Centre County.

Scott Weidensaul is a naturalist and writer, the author of about 30 books, including one out in March of this year, “A World on the Wing: The Global…

Pennsylvania collected about $146 million from natural gas drillers last year in impact fees — the lowest amount paid since the fee started.The Public…