Group wants stricter permit for U.S. Steel to stop oily releases into ...
2024年11月14日 · The DEP issued a compliance order in October 2023 requiring U.S. Steel to deploy absorbent booms, investigate the cause of the releases and implement a plan to fix any problems.. But the problem is still happening, according to the DEP. Lauren Camarda, an agency spokesperson, said in an email there was another release on October 10 from the plant.
New plan aims to improve river access in Allegheny County
2024年11月14日 · This story is part of our series, Wild Pennsylvania. Check out all of the other stories in the series here. The non-profit Friends of the Riverfront released a new management plan for recreation in Allegheny County’s three rivers. For decades, the group has focused on developing 33 miles of riverfront trails, known as the Three Rivers Heritage Trail.
What Pennsylvania voters say about the environment
2024年11月8日 · By Kathy Knauer, Julie Grant, Reid Frazier and Kara Holsopple of The Allegheny Front and Sydney Roach, Rivka Wolin and Erell Williams of WPSU. On Election Day, we talked with voters in several Pennsylvania counties about the environment and climate change – what they think about them and how those issues might have affected their ballot choices.
Episode for November 15, 2024 - The Allegheny Front
2024年11月15日 · PECO to purchase energy from what will be the largest utility-based solar procurement in Pa.-The southeast Pa.utility will pay the solar provider for the electricity and for providing the capacity — meaning the provider gets paid to guarantee 25 MW of solar will be available.New plan aims to improve river access in Allegheny County-Friends of the Riverfront released a 10-year management plan ...
Pittsburgh urban farmers get a nearly $900K boost from USDA
2024年10月16日 · By Alayna Hutchinson | 90.5 WESA. Pittsburgh is one of 10 U.S. cities to receive part of a $9 million federal investment in urban agriculture. The Allegheny County Conservation District (ACCD), an urban conservation organization, was awarded $894,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency to support urban farming in the county through outreach, education and technical ...
Should the federal government support a massive recycling plant …
2024年9月23日 · A company planning to build a huge plastics recycling facility in Erie, Pennsylvania, got a big boost this summer when the U.S. Department of Energy announced a conditional loan guarantee for the project of $182.6 million.. The facility would recycle some plastics for reuse and send other types to a steel plant …
How are Pennsylvania’s lawmakers doing when it ... - The …
2024年9月4日 · Reid R. Frazier covers energy for The Allegheny Front. His work has taken him as far away as Texas and Louisiana to report on the petrochemical industry and as close to home as Greene County, Pennsylvania to cover the shale gas boom.
The Allegheny Front, environmental news for Pennsylvania
2024年12月20日 · The Allegheny Front reports on energy, conservation, air, water and much more. Read the stories. Listen to the podcast. Stay informed.
Longtime environmental official on Pennsylvania election results
2024年11月8日 · With the Democrats retaining a 1-seat majority in the Pennsylvania House and the Senate still in Republican control, we wanted to get a perspective on these results and how they might influence environmental policy going forward.. David Hess, former Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection in the early 2000s and editor of the PA Environment Digest Blog, spoke with ...
New studies shed light on the contamination and response to East ...
2024年10月23日 · After the Norfolk Southern train derailed along the Pennsylvania-Ohio border last year, releasing 1.1 million pounds of vinyl chloride and other chemicals into the environment, the National Science Foundation responded quickly. The independent, federal agency funded university-based research, including a study by Andrew Whelton, Professor of Civil, Environmental and Ecological Engineering at ...