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After Partnering With the State to Monitor Itself, a Pennsylvania Gas Company Declares Its Fracking Operations ‘Safe’

Environmentalists say a new report from CNX Resources’ monitoring program, created as part of a collaboration led by Gov. Josh Shapiro, is full of misinformation.

By Kiley Bense

 CNX Resources said the company’s fracking operations “poses no public health risks,” a contention that is at odds with many studies on the impacts of the gas industry. Credit: Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images
Republican Dave McCormick (left) is challenging Democratic Sen. Bob Casey in Pennsylvania’s race for U.S. Senate. Credit: Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu and Matthew Hatcher/AFP via Getty Images

In Pennsylvania’s Competitive Senate Race, Fracking Takes Center Stage

By Kiley Bense
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (left) and Vice President Kamala Harris speak to the press at the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia on July 13. Credit: Ryan Collerd/AFP via Getty Images

A New National Spotlight Shines on Josh Shapiro’s Contested Environmental Record

By Kiley Bense
Philip Evergood’s “Mine Disaster,” 1933-1937. Credit: Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Edward H. Coates Fund, 2010.1

For Appalachian Artists, the Landscape Is Much More Than the Sum of Its Natural Resources

By Kiley Bense
A Tesla charging station is seen at a travel plaza off Interstate-95 in Cecil County, Maryland. One of the funded projects includes efforts to deploy new electric vehicle charging stations along the Interstate-95 corridor in New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware and Maryland. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

New Federal Grants Could Slash U.S. Climate Emissions by Nearly 1 Billion Metric Tons Through 2050

By Kristoffer Tigue, Marianne Lavelle
Smoke rises from a derailed cargo train in East Palestine, Ohio on Feb. 4, 2023. The train accident sparked a massive fire and evacuation orders. Credit: Dustin Franz/AFP via Getty Images

NTSB Says Norfolk Southern Threatened Staff as They Investigated the East Palestine Derailment

By Kiley Bense
Synchronous fireflies in a meadow at the 2021 Pennsylvania Firefly Festival. Credit: Peggy Butler

Will the Lightning Bug Show Go On?

By Kiley Bense
President Joe Biden receives an operational briefing from EPA officials on the response and recovery effort at the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment site on Feb. 16. Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Ohio and Pennsylvania Residents Affected by the East Palestine Train Derailment Say Their ‘Basic Needs’ Are Still Not Being Met

By Kiley Bense
A fracking drilling pad operates in the Marcellus Shale formation near Robinson Township, Pa. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Pennsylvania’s Fracking Wastewater Contains a ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Critical Clean Energy Mineral Lithium

By Kiley Bense
A view of the Air Liquide hydrogen plant in northern France. The plant produces hydrogen by “reforming” natural gas—a process the planned “hydrogen hub” in the Appalachian region would also use. Credit: Lou Benoist/AFP via Getty Images

A Debate Rages Over the Putative Environmental Benefits of the ARCH2 ‘Hydrogen Hub’ in Appalachia

By Jon Hurdle
The Shell cracker plant in Beaver County, Pennsylvania will produce more than a million tons of plastic along the Ohio River. Credit: Mark Dixon/CC BY 2.0 Deed

Q&A: Is Pittsburgh Becoming ‘the Plastic City’?

By Kiley Bense
Maya van Rossum has been the Delaware Riverkeeper for 30 years. As the river’s environmental guardian and the leader of the nonprofit Delaware Riverkeeper Network, van Rossum advocates for the health of the river and its ecosystem from New York to Delaware. Credit: Caroline Gutman/Inside Climate News

Maya van Rossum Wants to Save the World

By Kiley Bense
The Shell ethane cracker plant in Beaver County was fined $10 million for air quality violations in May 2023. Credit: Mark Dixon/CC BY 2.0 Deed

Behind the Scenes: How a Plastics Plant Has Plagued a Pennsylvania County

By Kiley Price
The Shell plant in Beaver County, Pennsylvania takes ethane and heats it to extremely high temperatures, “cracking” the molecular bonds holding it together to form ethylene and polyethylene pellets called nurdles. Credit: Mark Dixon/CC BY 2.0 Deed

A Plastics Plant Promised Pennsylvania Prosperity, but to Some Residents It’s Become a ‘Shockingly Bad’ Neighbor

By Kiley Bense
An Equitrans compressor station in Washington County. Last month, EQT announced it would acquire the pipeline operator to better compete “in a global era of natural gas.” Credit: Quinn Glabicki/PublicSource

EQT Says Fracked Gas Is a Climate Solution, but Scientists Call That Deceptive Greenwashing

By Quinn Glabicki, PublicSource
The site of the formerly proposed Encina chemical recycling plant for plastic waste in Point Township, Penn. Credit: James Bruggers/Inside Climate News

A Giant Plastics Chemical Recycling Plant Planned for Pennsylvania Died After Two Years. What Happened?

By James Bruggers
The TransAlta Centralia Generation station pictured on March 8, 2024. Mount Rainer is visible to the left of the plant. Credit: Jeremy Long/WITF

A Washington State Coal Plant Has to Close Next Year. Can Pennsylvania Communities Learn From Centralia’s Transition?

By Rachel McDevitt, StateImpact Pennsylvania
Rep. Summer Lee attends a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on May 16, 2023. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images

As a Contested Pittsburgh Primary Nears, Climate Advocates Rally Around a Progressive Fracking Opponent, Rep. Summer Lee

By Keerti Gopal, Kiley Bense
Members of Climate Defiance use the eclipse to raise awareness about climate issues during totality in Burlington, Vermont. Credit: Courtesy of Climate Defiance

Across the US, Awe Unites During the Darkness of a Total Solar Eclipse

By Lee Hedgepeth, Erin Schulte, Keerti Gopal, Kiley Bense, Liza Gross, Phil McKenna

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