Special Reports

Polluted streams continue to plague Delaware River watershed in Pennsylvania

The quality of water in the Pennsylvania sub-basins that make up the Delaware River watershed deteriorated only slightly from an...
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River Pointe project to be in spotlight again at hearing

A public hearing set for Monday will spotlight a sprawling commercial building plan of nearly 6 million square feet in...
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New Jersey warehouse developer unexpectedly seeks to preserve property as farmland

A bitter four-year fight against a mammoth warehouse project in a rural New Jersey community appears to have unexpectedly ended...
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Not that the upper river really needs more water, but make it rain, Hochul and Shapiro
Editorial report

Why are the governors of New York and Pennsylvania, through their inaction, forcing the eventual demise of the Upper Delaware Council?...
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Partial Delaware Aqueduct drawdown to begin Oct. 16

The New York City Department of Environmental Protection will partially dewater the Delaware Aqueduct for three weeks starting on Oct....
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Model zoning rules: A community tool to cope with warehouses before it’s too late

Communities in New Jersey and Pennsylvania whose inadequate zoning and planning rules left them flat-footed coping with an explosive growth...
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Plan to transport LNG by rail to Delaware River port hits yet another snag

Federal regulators have pulled on yet another loose string in what has been the slow unraveling of a plan to...
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Energy company plotted gas plant in small Pennsylvania town — but no one told residents

This story originally appeared in The Intercept. To read the full story, click here. WHEN ZULENE MAYFIELD received a call from...
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What happened to a high-tech, leak-seeking underwater robotic vehicle for the NYCDEP?

Note: This article has been updated with a fuller comment from the New York City Department of Environmental Protection. When...
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NYCDEP delays Delaware Aqueduct shutdown and repairs until October 2024

  The New York City Department of Environmental Protection announced on Wednesday that it was once again postponing plans to...
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