The companies are launching pilot programs to produce gas without harmful methane leaks. There are business reasons to do that, experts say.
The report uses a worst-case scenario climate model, with no assumed solutions, to make its projections. Read the report here.
By Rachel McDevitt If Wolf is successful, Pennsylvania would become the first major fossil fuel state to adopt a carbon pricing policy or join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
The Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee on Tuesday passed Senate Bill 119 along party lines.
The move shocked some environmental and consumer protection groups, who say Republicans are holding the Public Utility Commission hostage over an unrelated policy decision.
Rep. Daryl Metcalfe has equated climate change with seasonal weather, said predictions about the dangers of climate change are fiction, and implied carbon dioxide can’t be a pollutant because plants use it as food.
Travel with the world’s best-known climate activist as she takes her fight to a global stage. With unique access, the series follows Greta over an extraordinary year as she embarks on a mission to ensure world leaders work to limit global warming.
In Pennsylvania and elsewhere, coal jobs have disappeared as utilities move to cheaper natural gas. Now some worry that ambitious climate goals — and cheaper wind and solar — mean oil and gas jobs will be the next to go.
