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Pennsylvania Gas Driller: Our Operations Pose No Health Risk. You Can’t Be Serious, Activists Say.

With billions up for grabs and scores of air quality violations to its name, CNX tries to recast itself as a climate warrior.

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis proposes to replace state parks with golf courses, pickleball courts and hotels

The plan was announced by the state Department of Environmental Protection, but it has been met with criticism by activists and lawmakers alike.

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Popular disc golf course in New Jersey being forced to shut down

The state's Department of Environmental Protection, however, is ordering the course to be shut down.

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Who is Blocking Climate Action in Pennsylvania?

Two blocked climate bills show the oil and gas industry, related unions can still sway the new Democratic House majority.

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Officials insist pollution from derailment not harming animals in Pa.

Despite testimony to the contrary, Pennsylvania officials say they have found no evidence that animals in Western Pennsylvania were harmed by the East Palestine train derailment.

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NJ fines defiant shore town $12M over unapproved beach work

The sandstorm being waged between New Jersey environmental officials and a defiant shore town bolstering its dunes without state permission is intensifying

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Editorial: Pennsylvania should ban ‘forever chemicals’

They never degrade, break down, or go away: Forever chemicals, or PFAS, increase cancer risks, undermine immune systems, decrease fertility and more. State governments, along with the federal government, must end their destructive proliferation.

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Pennsylvania now has limits on forever chemicals, ahead of federal standards

PITTSBURGH — Pennsylvania has enacted a limit on two PFAS chemicals in drinking water, marking the first time the state has set its own limits instead of adopting a federal standard.

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Climate change is coming for the Jersey Shore, retiring coastal expert warns

On a dock overlooking a coil of Nacote Creek in Atlantic County, New Jersey, earlier this month, Stewart Farrell, director of Stockton University's Coastal Research Center, gave an impromptu master class on barrier islands, ancient geology, crab traps, coastal law, the Delaware Bayshore, and bulkheads.

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Sand storm: NJ sues town that fixed eroded beach despite ban

A sand storm at the Jersey shore is escalating

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NYC mayor laments not being told earlier about arsenic in public housing complex drinking water

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams questioned Monday why members of his own administration didn’t inform him sooner about arsenic being discovered in the drinking water at a massive New York City Housing Authority complex in Manhattan.

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NJ sues Monsanto over ‘reckless’ PCB contamination, including along Delaware River

PHILADELPHIA — The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection filed suit Thursday against Monsanto for “extensive damage” caused by PCB contamination, citing “reckless long-term discharge of” polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) statewide and noting pollution from a company facility in Gloucester County on the Delaware River.

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New Jersey's dismal climate plan

New Jersey has been hit by powerful storms that climate scientists predict will only increase in severity

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Florida springs protection rule is overdue and underwhelming, critics say

Legislators left no doubt how they felt when they passed one of the first bills in the 2016 session.

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Monthslong closure of major NYC aqueduct delayed a year

A long-planned temporary shutdown of a leaking aqueduct that supplies about half of New York City’s drinking water will be pushed back a year, giving officials more time to prepare for the monthslong closure

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Nearly 28,000 miles of Pennsylvania's streams are impaired by pollution, report finds

PHILADELPHIA — One-third of all Pennsylvania waterways are now considered polluted enough to harm wildlife, recreation or drinking water, according to a report released this week by the state's Department of Environmental Protection.

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