Amy Sisk
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Peoples Gas in western Pennsylvania has outfitted a vehicle that will drive over 950 miles of the utility's pipelines in Pittsburgh this year using a high-tech system to find places where methane leaks into the air.
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Natural gas production in Pennsylvania is expected to reach a new high by year's end: 6 trillion cubic feet. Drillers extracted 13 percent more gas in the first three quarters of 2018 than during the same period the previous year, according to a recent report from the state's Independent Fiscal Office.
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While the bulk of solar energy in Pennsylvania exists in the eastern half of the state, co-ops are popping up across western part of the commonwealth to help people go solar.
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If power plants that burn fossil fuels could capture their carbon emissions and store them somewhere, it would go a long way toward preventing greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere.
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Pennsylvania environmental officials have come out with a plan to reduce leaks from thousands of the state's oil and gas wells.
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STATE IMPACT PENNSYLVANIA -- State environmental officials have fined natural gas operator EQT for drilling into an old mine in 2017 and releasing 4 million gallons of abandoned mine drainage into the Monongahela River and surrounding wetlands in Allegheny County.
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STATE IMPACT PENNSYLVANIA - Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York who's weighing a presidential bid in 2020, visited Pittsburgh and Philadelphia on Sunday to announce that both cities will receive up to $2.5 million to combat climate change.
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Hunter Park in the Pittsburgh suburbs can't compare in size or prestige to the Gettysburg battlefield, but the two attractions have a common funding source in their past.
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STATE IMPACT PENNSYLVANIA - A federal indictment filed this week alleges Russian hackers targeted a nuclear power company near Pittsburgh beginning in 2014, in addition to anti-doping agencies throughout the world.
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STATE IMPACT PENNSYLVANIA - By including more pipelines in Pennsylvania’s one-call law and creating a more robust enforcement system, state officials hope to cut down on incidents where residents or excavators accidentally hit pipelines and cables when digging underground.