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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Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm visited the Cleveland-Cliffs Butler Works in Lyndora, Pa. on Monday to tout the Biden administration’s investments and policies supporting American-made steel. -
Local union workers cheer new federal rule to modernize grid, but efficiency experts are unimpressedThe core of nearly all transformers is made with what’s called grain-oriented electrical steel. Only one company in the U.S. makes it, Cleveland-Cliffs, at its plants in Butler, Pa., and Zanesville, Ohio. -
Tenaska, a Nebraska-based company, needs to lease land for injection wells and underground space to store carbon for what it calls its Tri-State CCS Hub in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. -
The National Wildlife Federation and the Ohio River Basin Alliance held 31 public listening sessions across the region from June 2022 and May 2023. -
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on whether a clean air rule should be put on hold while a case against it is considered by a lower court. -
A new effort was launched this week to help local governments, school districts and nonprofits in the region get their share of the billions of dollars available from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 and other federal monies. -
Public health experts say there should have been immediate testing of people for chemicals in their bodies, along with the creation of a large-scale community health registry. Without these, residents won’t know the long-term impacts on their health. -
Zsuzsa Gyenes and her son have been living at a hotel in Cranberry, Pa., since a few days after the Norfolk Southern train derailment near their (now former) home in East Palestine, Ohio. -
After a six week strike, the United Auto Workers tentative contract agreements with Ford, General Motors and Stellantis include unionization options for EV battery plants. -
The Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh is looking for ways to educate people about how their plant choices affect the natural world.
