Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future (PennFuture) heralded Secretary of Environmental Protection Kathleen McGinty as a trailblazer for Pennsylvania’s environment and economy and a truly transformative leader. PennFuture’s comments came as McGinty announced her intention to leave office on July 18, 2008.
“Secretary McGinty has created a record of unparalleled achievement for the Keystone State’s environment and economy,” [...]

Pennsylvania should enact a state plan forcing coal-fired power plants to cut mercury emissions 90 percent by 2015, rather than adopt less stringent rules favored by the Bush administration, witnesses told a public hearing yesterday.
All but one of 30 speakers who addressed the state’s Environmental Quality Board sitting in Norristown sharply criticized a federal plan [...]

Miners from the now-closed Liberty Mine heard an optimistic report Friday morning by United Mine Workers officials about the future of coal mining in Southern Illinois.
But for many of the 141 miners, the future is not soon enough.
The union miners were handed pink slips on July 13 when Liberty officials idled the mine that is [...]