Department of Environmental Protection

The FBI has begun a corruption investigation into how Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration came to issue permits for construction on a multibillion-dollar pipeline project to carry highly volatile natural gas liquids across Pennsylvania, The Associated Press has learned.

Pennsylvanians living downstream may not often think about what could happen if something goes wrong with one of the state’s many dams, but threats to life and property are scattered along the state’s 86,000 miles of streams and rivers.

The DEP said work will begin to protect the East Point Lighthouse with giant sand-filled fabric tubes to temporarily keep the waves at bay

On the seventh anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, New Jersey’s governor committed the state to a far-reaching plan to deal with climate change and protect itself from future storms.

New Jersey denied permits for a $1.1 billion, roughly 120-mile long pipeline that would bring Marcellus Shale natural gas to New Jersey, Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy said Friday.

New Jersey says it has bought its 700th home under a program to acquire and demolish houses in flood-prone areas — but nearly seven years after Superstorm Sandy, not one of those purchases has been along the ocean.

A group of parents in a community of Delaware County is asking for answers about the Sunoco’s Mariner East pipeline, which caused a sinkhole. Parents are worried about a possible explosion in such a residential area.

As places in Newark are hoping to keep getting bottled water for residents, some unlikely places are coming to their rescue — including Flint, Michigan, who has been dealing with their own water crisis for years. NBC 4 New York’s Brian Thompson reports.

After Superstorm Sandy whacked New Jersey, most shore towns had to build or rebuild protective sand dunes. But three areas got a pass.

A mother and her 4-year-old son were attacked by a coyote as they walked in a New Jersey park Thursday evening, police say

New Jersey’s governor signed a law Friday intended to protect the public’s right to reach the beach in a state where some shore towns have employed a wide variety of tactics to discourage outsiders from sitting on or even walking across their sand.

Pennsylvania’s attorney general said Tuesday that his office has opened an investigation into construction on a 350-mile natural gas liquids pipeline project across southern Pennsylvania that has been blamed for polluting waterways in dozens of places and causing sinkholes near homes.

New Jersey is adding 749 miles of rivers and streams to its inventory of waterways that have a high level of protection from pollution and development.

A police officer with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection has been charged with illegally making and selling guns and with tipping off a drug-trafficking suspect.

A state appeals court on Tuesday rejected a challenge to New Jersey’s bear hunt brought by animal protection organizations, ruling that New Jersey followed appropriate guidelines in expanding the hunt in 2015.

A boil water advisory will continue to be in effect in the Yardley area at least through Monday as officials work to test water samples.

Seaside Heights in Ocean County, New Jersey, closed off access to the ocean along its beaches Thursday after two consecutive bacteria tests showed levels that exceed state standards.

Residents of a New Jersey county are advised to be on the lookout for a rare type of jellyfish with a powerful and painful sting.

State Assembly and Senate committees are scheduled Monday to consider the state’s latest bill that would ban smoking at public beaches, except for designated smoking areas comprising 15 percent or less of the beach.