Pennsylvania

Rally at Penn State: Students Taking Lead on Clean Energy 0
Posted 1 week, 2 days ago
How will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) [UPDATED] 1
Posted 2 weeks ago Sen. Arlen Specter had been considered a fence sitter on climate legislation, but on Nov. 5 he sided with all but one of the Democrats on the Environment and Public Works Committee in voting to move forward with the Kerry-Boxer climate bill.
How will senators vote on a climate bill?

Robert Casey (D-Penn.) 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago In a letter to a Grist reader, Sen. Robert Casey says he intends to work toward legislation to curb greenhouse-gas emissions, and also talks up "clean coal" and touts his efforts to get funding for carbon-capture-and-sequestration technology.
Revealing the mysteries of Pittsburgh

Pa. Rep. Doyle on getting blue-collar support for a climate bill 0
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago How does a blue-collar guy from a Pittsburgh steelworking family end up supporting a climate bill in Congress? Rep. Mike Doyle explains how he came to believe that climate legislation is good for his manufacturing-heavy district and the whole country.
A FARCE TO BE RECKONED WITH

Families not allowed in ‘families for coal’ group 0
Posted 3 months ago
Families Organized to Represent the Coal Economy (FORCE, naturally) is a Pennsylvania-based pro-coal organization. Oh, and by the way, by "families" the group doesn't actually mean families.
The wrong kind of bubbly

More gas contamination affects Pennsylvania residents 0
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Pennsylvania environment officials are investigating another natural gas well leak, after residents near the town of Roaring Branch complained last month that rust-colored water was flowing from a spring and two small creeks were bubbling with methane gas.
This Week in Placemaking

The greenest grocery store, biggest “living wall,” and more eco-innovations 5
Posted 4 months ago
From the country's greenest grocery store in Augusta, Maine, to a soaring transit station in Anaheim, Calif., we survey the landscape of green-building projects in the news.
Murder by breath

Goodbye to Cancer Valley: In remembrance of my friend John Soley 0
Posted 5 months ago
After a long struggle with cancer, my friend Mr. John Soley died at his home in Carbon County, Pa. on Saturday, June 20. He was only 62, which is too young to die of natural causes. But then, neither John nor I believe he got sick from natural causes. We believe he and many of his neighbors were poisoned by pollution, and that the perpetrators should be held to account.
Hot potato

Pennsylvania rejected TVA coal ash that’s going to poor communities in Alabama and Georgia 2
Posted 6 months ago
Some of the more than 1 billion gallons of toxic coal ash that spilled from an impoundment at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston power plant in eastern Tennessee last December is making its way to landfills in poor and black communities in Alabama and Georgia, as we reported last week at Facing South.

It turns out that TVA also looked into sending the waste to Pennsylvania for dumping into abandoned mines -- but that state's Department of Environmental Protection rejected the ash as substandard.
Methane digesters make dairy good sense 0
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago
No Superior For You!

Diversion of Great Lakes water will soon be illegal 0
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago
Event planners announce location, greening plans for next year’s conference 2
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago
Obama talks up energy plans in the Rust Belt 3
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago
Listen as I talk green collar jobs on NPR 0
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago
A video on the great coal myth 1
Posted 1 year, 6 months ago
Shinier, Happier People

How three Rust Belt cities are changing 0
Posted 1 year, 6 months ago
No difference between McCain and Dems on climate 2
Posted 1 year, 7 months ago
Send your questions for the National Green Jobs Conference 20
Posted 1 year, 8 months ago
Say Cheese

Pennsylvania will allow hormone labels on dairy products 3
Posted 1 year, 10 months ago
Don't Cry Over Labeled Milk

Pennsylvania bans hormone- and antibiotic-free labels on dairy products 21
Posted 2 years ago