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Philly garden offers community and relief from heat
41+ min ago (1560+ words) We're just $13,000 from our Week of Giving goal. Don't let this vital work disappear. Give now & get it DOUBLED before this match expires. In the concrete jungle of North Philadelphia, a garden blooms in vivid color. Flowers, vegetable beds and…...
Wildfire smoke poses new challenges for PA
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (706+ words) Karen Schaeffer is used to spending a lot of time thinking about how to keep kids happy and healthy. But only recently has she confronted a new problem at the childcare center she runs in Lititz, Pennsylvania: hazardous air wafting…...
Fears grow that data centers will ruin Pocono Mountains
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1710+ words) TOBYHANNA, Pa.—Rich Troscianecki spent a decade searching for a slice of paradise. After raising a family in a sprawling New Jersey suburb, he and his wife craved a more peaceful place with lots of woods and a water view....
Data centers are slowing America’s shift away from coal
1+ week, 3+ day ago (333+ words) “Commercial load is starting to grow, and that’s part of the data center story,” said Steve Piper, the director of energy research at S&P Global Energy, a market intelligence firm. “It’s kind of a rising tide lifts all boats…...
Data centers forced off grid during heat waves
1+ week, 6+ day ago (885+ words) This article is made possible through Spotlight PA’s partnership with NOTUS, a nonpartisan news organization that covers government and politics with the fresh eyes of early career journalists and the expertise of veteran reporters. It’s happening again. Summer temperatures are…...
New power plants for data centers would worsen pollution
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (984+ words) Data center developers in Pennsylvania plan to rely on at least seven new natural gas-fired power plants that would emit climate-warming gases equal to adding 14 million cars on the road every year, according to a new report. The report from…...
Warehouse boom brings pollution to PA’s Cumberland Valley
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1012+ words) This article was originally published by the Chesapeake Bay Journal, an award-winning nonprofit news organization that has been covering environmental issues in the Bay region for more than 30 years. Over the past few decades, Cumberland Valley communities in southcentral Pennsylvania…...
‘Live stakes’ transform Pennsylvania creek banks
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (798+ words) This article was originally published by the Chesapeake Bay Journal, an award-winning nonprofit news organization that has been covering environmental issues in the Bay region for more than 30 years. At first glance, the vegetation along the narrow creek in East…...
AI chatbots still pose as doctors amid PA crackdown
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (993+ words) HARRISBURG — Chatbots on five different websites claimed to be licensed to practice medicine in the commonwealth when prompted by Spotlight PA — the same kind of output that led the Shapiro administration to file a lawsuit last month. A task force…...
PA Turnpike wants to be a sustainable superhighway
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1118+ words) This article was originally published by the Chesapeake Bay Journal, an award-winning nonprofit news organization that has been covering environmental issues in the Bay region for more than 30 years. Each summer, motorists traveling on the Pennsylvania Turnpike as it passes…...