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Fracking encroaches on Pennsylvania forests

March 21, 2014 By Blake Skylar

Five activists were arrested Mar. 20 in Pennsylvania's Tiadaghton State Park for protesting fracking operations there. Blocking the only access point to a wellpad, they chained themselves to barrels of concrete.

Dark-money groups building campaign for “right to work” in Pa.

January 24, 2014 By Sean Kitchen

KUTZTOWN, Pa. - The never-ending push for right to work (for less) legislation in Pennsylvania is on the move again, but this time there's more of a tangible campaign targeting the conservative base.

First Energy: Locks out workers, blacks out customers

January 14, 2014 By John Wojcik

It was just after sunrise only three days before Thanksgiving, that security guards clamped locks on the gates at FirstEnergy in central Pennsylvania, barring 150 workers from their jobs.

World’s largest landfill to become NYC’s biggest solar plant

November 26, 2013 By Blake Skylar

Parts of the East Coast are finally adopting solar energy projects, and New York City is leading the charge, the Fresh Kills development is seen as a major victory.

Fracking site unleashes radioactive water into Pa. creek

October 4, 2013 By Blake Skylar

In the latest incident of environmental poisoning caused by fracking, a wastewater treatment facility in Pennsylvania is spewing radioactive water into the local Blacklick Creek.