environmental social science

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has heard oral arguments about an energy tax looming over utility bills in the commonwealth: the Regional Greenhouse Ga...

HARRISBURG — A skeptical high court grilled state officials this week about whether the money it wants to collect from a regional anti-pollution pact ...

HARRISBURG — A bill to ensure Pennsylvania residents have choices when it comes to fuel availability was overwhelmingly approved by the Senate Local G...

HARRISBURG — The state Senate approved legislation encouraging responsible solar development and offering better protections for landowners, according...

Port Allegany’s Veterans Memorial Inc. (VMI) hosted this year’s Wild Envirothon on Wednesday with 110 students from McKean and Cameron counties taking...

LONDON (TNS) — The electrification of everything is the biggest shake up the global energy system has seen in decades. Unfortunately, the route to the...

The McKean County Conservation District (MCCD) spent the last week celebrating Arbor Day by sponsoring the My Growing Tree program throughout the coun...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) was created to help advance clean-energy infrastructure and technologies that allegedly had...

Conservation districts promote and support stewardship through education, engagement and collaboration to encourage responsible management of natural ...

If you’re a human living on this planet, you should get to know Doug Tallamy, the entomologist and University of Delaware professor whose groundbreaki...

HARRISBURG — Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn announced the appointment of Tyler Ickes as assistant ...

During his last weeks in office, PresidentJoe Bidensigned an executive order banning energy development on public lands in Nevada’sRuby Mountainsand i...

HARRISBURG — In a party-line vote, Pennsylvania's House of Representatives' Environmental and Natural Resource Protection Committee moved forward a bi...

HARRISBURG – Even as a natural gas haven, Pennsylvania ranks only 32nd in energy affordability in the Energy Affordability 2025 report from the Americ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins issued a Secretarial Memo to establish an “Emergency Situation Determination” on 112,646,000...

The federal government has frozen grants awarded to Pennsylvania farmers, leaving behind unpaid contracts, people out of work and obstacles to reducin...

HARRISBURG — Studying the viability of renewable energy projects on Lake Erie was the topic of discussion at a recent House Environmental & Natural Re...

It was a packed house Tuesday night as students, faculty and locals came together to hear Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer discuss her book “Braiding Sweetgras...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. births rose slightly last year, but experts don't see it as evidence of reversing a long-term decline. A little over 3.6 million ...

HARRISBURG – The demand from schools for solar project funding across Pennsylvania is outpacing available resources, state data reveals. In its pilot ...