Rachel McDevitt | StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pedestrian-friendly streets in Lancaster; reconnecting York to Codorus Creek; 500 new trees in Mechanicsburg. These are just a few of the projects funded by federal climate money helping transform Pennsylvania communities into safer and cleaner places.

The owner of the closed Three Mile Island nuclear plant hopes to have a new license – and a new name for the plant – to operate in three years.

Water, oil and workers is all it will take to get the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear plant back up and running, according to the plant’s owners. That, plus months of training, inspections and regulatory approval.

Coal mining has been in decline for decades, and the massive Homer City coal power plant closed abruptly last year. The legacy of pollution left behind by the industry is making it challenging to move on.

A state House committee is advancing a measure that would make solar energy development more expensive.

The central Pennsylvanian was one of about 80,000 people that evacuated during the partial meltdown – an incident that halted the growth of the U.S. nuclear power industry for decades.

Pennsylvania’s Senate is trying again to overturn a regulation that would make power plants pay for pollution. The chamber voted along party lines Tuesday to repeal the regulation that allows the state to join 10 other states in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

A new analysis from the state’s Independent Fiscal Office says Pennsylvania companies drilled 63 new wells between April and June–the lowest quarterly number since 2008. The number of new wells has been falling since the third quarter of 2023.

Recent measurements from a climate pollution-sensing airplane show oil and gas sites are leaking methane at four times the rate reported to federal regulators.

A new analysis of how drinking water in some Pennsylvania school districts is tested for lead finds the current “test and fix” policy is inadequate for protecting children.