Julie Grant | Allegheny Front
Senior ReporterJulie Grant is senior reporter with The Allegheny Front, covering food and agriculture, pollution, and energy development in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Throughout her career, she has traveled as far as Egypt and India for stories, trawled for mussels in the Allegheny River, and got sick in a small aircraft while viewing a gas well pad explosion in rural Ohio. Julie graduated from Miami University of Ohio and studied land ethics at Kent State University. She can be reached at julie@alleghenyfront.org.
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The Allegheny Front’s Julie Grant spoke about the mass deconstruction of the nation’s regulations with Jody Freeman, director of the Environmental and Energy Law Program at Harvard Law School. -
The company had planned to recycle 160,000 tons of plastic waste a year and turn about 20,000 tons of it into a new product to be used in the steel-making process. -
The amendment would ban net metering, which allows residential and commercial property owners to send their unused solar energy to the electric grid and requires utility companies to reimburse them for it. -
Speaking at the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank in Dauphin County, near Harrisburg, on Tuesday, Gov. Josh Shapiro directed the state’s agriculture secretary to appeal a decision by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to terminate a contract that connects food from 189 Pennsylvania farms with 14 food banks. -
Solar advocates in Pennsylvania cheered a first-round vote by the state House Energy Committee of HB 362, which allows the state to accept millions in federal money for the Solar for All program. -
Pasa Sustainable Agriculture is preparing to lay off more than half its staff because of the funding freeze. -
To access the millions in solar funding, state lawmakers must act by May. And President Donald Trump has frozen it, along with billions in other dollars committed to the state. -
Pennsylvania and other states are trying to determine what a Trump administration order last week will mean for the buildout of federally-funded electric vehicle charging stations. -
Two years after the derailment, researchers are stepping in to track how low-level, long-term environmental exposures are affecting the health of East Palestine residents. -
The Department of Justice, Environmental Protection Agency, and Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection on Tuesday announced a proposed settlement with PennEnergy Resources, an oil and gas development company based in Cranberry Township.
