1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (496+ words) The “Data Center Permit Tracker” from the Department of Environmental Protection shows 65 data center projects across the state. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has launched an interactive map showing the locations and environmental impacts of planned data centers. The “Data Center…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (1017+ words) As grid infrastructure increasingly relies on internet connections to function, bad actors’ tools have become more sophisticated. In the past year, FirstEnergy Pennsylvania has seen a growing number of attempted malware and cyberattacks around their critical infrastructure. “Our defensive systems…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (669+ words) At about noon Saturday, July 18, Tracie Young got a call from a man in York County reporting that he had spotted a bird hanging from a tree at Lake Redman. The bird, a black-crowned night heron, had become tangled in…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (433+ words) A persistent heat dome parked over the eastern US turned July into a suffocating stretch in PA, exposing how climate change and stalled weather patterns can turn summer into a public-health emergency. For the month of July, millions of people…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (560+ words) Pennsylvanians are encouraged to take precautions on Friday due to the poor air quality stemming from the Canadian wildfires. With smoke from the Canadian wildfires still hanging heavy over the region, Pennsylvania officials declare a rare Code Purple air quality…...

3+ mon, 20+ hour ago   (863+ words) Chatbots on five different websites claimed to be licensed to practice medicine in Pennsylvania when prompted by Spotlight PA — the same kind of output that led the Shapiro administration to file a lawsuit last month. A task force under Pennsylvania’s…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (256+ words) The Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership launched in 2018 with a goal of planting 10 million trees across the state’s portion of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. A Pennsylvania partnership is marking a major milestone by planting its 10 millionth tree in the Chesapeake Bay…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1016+ words) The Pennsylvania summer sky will glow with full moons, meteor showers, an eclipse, and the “evening star.” You’re already familiar with the full moon, which rises roughly once a month when the Earth moves directly between the sun and the…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (191+ words) USA Today Network via Reuters Connect A USA TODAY analysis revealed that winters have shortened in every Pennsylvania county in the past seven decades, as below-freezing days are accounting for three or even four fewer weeks of each year in…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1155+ words) Upper Merion Township in the Philadelphia suburbs is no stranger to development. During the holiday shopping season, the once-rural community’s population swells to more than 350,000 as people flock to the King of Prussia Mall. Combined with about 35,000 residents and 70,000 workers,…...