Beneath Pennsylvania’s forests lie a living infrastructure most of us never see: mycelium—threadlike fungal filaments that lace through soil—and the mycorrhizal networks they form with roots. In a healthy woodland, this underground web moves water and nutrients, trading minerals for sugar and quietly increasing the odds that young trees survive beneath the canopy. At the center often stands an elder: the “mother tree.” Because it captures more sunlight, this tree produces more sugar than it...

FLIR video of the event is available here (Pittsburgh) A highly concerning flaring event took place on February 17, 2026 at the Shell Cracker Plant (Shell Polymers Monaca) Potter Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania.  The flaring event was observed by two staff members of Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania (PSR PA). A PSR PA staff member recorded FLIR video of the incident. PSR PA has submitted an incident report to the state Department of Environmental Protection. When...

The Cove Point LNG (liquified natural gas) facility in Lusby, Maryland is the first LNG export facility on the US East Coast. It is located in a beautiful coastal area near the Cove Point Lighthouse. The plant has been touted as a “model facility” by those hoping to install a similar, yet larger, operation on the Delaware River in PA. Two PSR PA staff members visited the area recently. What they discovered was a huge, yet hidden industrial campus with gigantic LNG holding tanks concealed by a...