Literary Mystery Meets Dystopian Future in Ian McEwan’s ‘What We Can Know’
The story is set in a world in which nuclear war, pandemics, economic collapse and climate change — a period known as The Derangement — have halved the global population.
The story is set in a world in which nuclear war, pandemics, economic collapse and climate change — a period known as The Derangement — have halved the global population.
Natural gas was pitched as a stopgap between fossil fuels and renewables. Instead, it has derailed Pennsylvania’s energy transition.
Fracking was supposed to lower Pennsylvanians’ electric bills. Instead, they’re higher than ever—and they’re about to get worse.
The conference’s goals are to respect animals’ emotions and intelligence; increase reliance on plant-based foods; be kind to Earth, its inhabitants, and ourselves; and strengthen the human-animal bond.
The Keystone State trails only Texas and Virginia in announced AI buildout. But policies to provide environmental and consumer protections lag further behind.
Along the Delaware River, the communities of Chester and Eddystone are facing the possibility of a new $7 billion liquified gas facility that will export Pennsylvania’s plentiful fracked gas.
A developer wants to build 270 homes next to the reserve, but residents concerned about protecting fresh drinking water and unique animal habitats, among other issues, are pushing back.
The map tracks renewable energy projects across the state that utilize federal funds from the Inflation Reduction Act. “Pennsylvanians deserve an affordable, clean energy future, and these funds are making that future a reality,” said Evergreen Action’s Julia Kortrey.
Surface sources are under pressure from industry demand and climate-change volatility.
Our crime? Journalism.
Activists, residents and leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest city.
As PA Senate Republicans hold the budget hostage, domestic violence shelters are forced to furlough staff and turn away victims putting Pennsylvanians at risk of injury or death.
With elections next month, Central Bucks School Board’s Karen Smith reminds community members of the chaos and divisiveness Republican book banners inflicted on the district just a few years ago.
PEN America’s new report “The Normalization of Book Banning” exposes how book censorship has become “rampant and common” in public schools across the United States.