Some funds will go to environmental upgrades, but most of the money looks like old-fashioned pork barrel spending.
By Anthony Hennen
Commonwealth Court issues injunction blocking Wolf’s RGGI move
The court’s ruling halts Wolf’s unilateral effort to bypass the legislature on climate change.
By Chris Woodward
Pennsylvania moratorium loophole nets $45M in oil and gas revenue
The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources determined that Wolf’s moratorium did not apply to streambeds.
By Anthony Hennen
Nick Russo: Retired Philly science teacher leads cleanup effort in Cobbs Creek Park
How a retired Philadelphia high school teacher started an all-volunteer anti-litter movement in Cobbs Creek Park.
By Nick Russo
Gordon Tomb: EPA rule threatens Trainer refinery
Renewable fuel compliance credits threaten the continued operation of Monroe Energy’s Trainer Refinery and its hundreds of jobs.
By Gordon Tomb
Jim Snell: PA’s energy revolution is bigger than Pennsylvania
With prices at the pump reaching levels not seen since 2014, it is critical that our elected leaders find ways to continue their support for oil and gas development.
By Jim Snell
Ideas Philly should steal — planting more trees
The benefits of trees go beyond health, heat and economic equity — though those are reason enough to increase Philly’s tree canopy. Here’s how other cities are doing just that.
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Senator Gene Yaw: What critics get wrong about energy choice
Last month, seven environmental groups wrote a misguided letter to Philadelphia officials bashing legislation that I sponsored as counterintuitive to the city’s decarbonization goals.
By Senator Gene Yaw
Eisenberg + Yeomans: Five ways to “rewild” Philadelphia
Environmentalists have long focused on “pristine” spaces for conservation, ignoring the areas where most of us live: cities and densely populated inner suburbs. How can we “rewild” sections of Philadelphia to improve our riverways and land, and re-introduce a wild element back into the lives of everyday city-dwellers?
By Albert Eisenberg and Craig Yeomans
The Editors: Left-leaning states backpedal from harmful climate programs, will Wolf?
Politically speaking, Wolf and his fellow Democrats should let RGGI die. But that would be the sensical thing to do.
By The Editors