Data center development across Western Pennsylvania has spurred renewed growth in another hotly debated industry. Fracking, the extraction of oil and natural gas from underground rock, jumped 50% from ...

Activists rallied Oct. 6 at Pennsylvania's Capitol seeking a three-year moratorium on data centers amid concerns over water, ...

Concerned about surging energy demand fueled by data centers, environmental groups urge state regulators to increase minimum ...

Fracking’s Forever Problem: Seventh in a series about the gas industry’s radioactive waste. When John Quigley became the secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection in 2015, ...

Testing in a limited number of shallow aquifers near fracking sites in southwestern Pennsylvania found low levels of radium overall, but there aren’t yet enough samples to draw firm conclusions about ...

Even so, about 2.2 million acres of land in Pennsylvania would remain open to fracking. And even if the state enacted stricter setback requirements, property owners could still voluntarily allow gas ...

Mike Soraghan reports on energy for Politico and E&E News. Marty Whiteman had enough natural gas under his hayfield to make him quite rich when the fracking boom swept through his rugged corner of ...

Allegheny County's Board of Health voted unanimously to direct health department staff to investigate whether the county's ...