Green

Philadelphia’s Old City neighborhood is getting $1.8 million to build a new plaza at 2nd and Market streets that will feature new crossings and green space.

Philadelphia’s Avenue of the Arts is getting $1 million from Philadelphia to jumpstart an attempt to green the theater-lined stretch of Broad Street south of City Hall with tens of millions of dollars of public and private investment expected to transform the street.

Check out some of the plans to reimagine Philadelphia’s Avenue of the Arts as a more green space. The city is kicking in $1 million to get things greening.

A month after Philadelphia launched an initiative to clean up every block of the city, officials provided an update on their ambitious, 13-week plan.

The U.S. Interior Department has approved the proposed Atlantic Shores offshore wind farm in New Jersey. Tuesday’s approval gives a major boost to a project that would be the state’s first. The project still requires an additional federal approval of its construction and operations plan and two state-level permits before construction can begi...

Wednesday marks one month since the City of Philadelphia launched its 13-week cleaning program, with a commitment to clean up every single neighborhood by the end of the summer. NBC10’s Rosemary Connors has a look into the progress.

The project still requires an additional federal approval of its construction and operations plan, along with two state-level permits, before construction can begin.

More local communities are entering a new phase of banning plastic products, including Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania. NBC10’s Deanna Durante explains.

Customers will no longer be able to use plastic forks or spoons at restaurants in Upper Merion, Pennsylvania, as phase two of the township’s single-use plastic ban went into effect on Monday, July 1, 2024.

The Philadelphia Eagles have gone green in more ways than one and now the Birds and the stadium they call home have received a historic environmental honor for their efforts.  

Philadelphia Eagles fans bleed green and now the Birds’ home field is about as green as it gets. Lincoln Financial Field is the first NFL facility to get a new acknowledgement — LEED Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.

A hotly contested East Coast natural gas pipeline has been given the go-ahead to start operating. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s approval Tuesday comes six years after construction began on the Mountain Valley Pipeline in West Virginia and Virginia. Environmental groups, landowners and some elected officials have long opposed the projec...

NBC10 cameras captured plenty of trash still on the ground in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood Monday afternoon as the city’s 13-week One Philly, United Citywide Cleaning and Greening Program began.