US Steel
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The blaze knocked out sulfur pollution controls for 3 months.
Rachel McDevitt
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StateImpact Pennsylvania
Reid Frazier
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StateImpact Pennsylvania
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The move shocked some environmental and consumer protection groups, who say Republicans are holding the Public Utility Commission hostage over an unrelated policy decision. -
The ruling was far from a total victory for residents and local officials who had, among other things, sought additional measures to protect children, older people, and those with disabilities.
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Pandemic boredom, a love of the environment, and a little encouragement from mom led a brother and sister team in Pittsburgh to start an aluminum can recycling business.
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Last term, state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) equated climate change with seasonal weather, said predictions about the dangers of climate change are fiction, and implied carbon dioxide can’t be a pollutant because plants use it as food.
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The data from 2019 does not yet count cleaner air from lockdowns and the pandemic.
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Electronic waste — especially larger items like computer monitors and televisions — is tough to recycle responsibly, but Pennsylvania Resources Council is offering Pittsburgh-area residents some help.
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The research looks at Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, and identifies hundreds of thousands of acres of un-reclaimed coal mines, and more than a half-million abandoned oil and gas wells.
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A Pittsburgh union doubts that dealing with climate change will be good for workers.
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The Department of Environmental Protection is hoping to address environmental justice concerns raised by Pennsylvania’s attempt to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. The cap and trade program with 11 other states aims to reduce power plant emissions.
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Sunoco’s Mariner East natural gas liquids pipeline construction in Chester County has led to hundreds of thousands of gallons of muddy groundwater spilling into a creek and wetland.
