State Impact

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.