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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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Chalfant Run, which flows into Turtle Creek in Allegheny County, has a milky-white color due to high levels of aluminum.
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The agency will hold a meeting on Tuesday to vote on its findings. One major issue is whether Norfolk Southern provided all relevant information to decision-makers as the disaster unfolded.
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A new report by the Breathe Project finds that residents of Allegheny County are more likely to die from air pollution than people in other parts of the U.S.
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“Seeing The Unseen: Aquatic Invaders & What’s at Stake,” features some of the aquatic invasive species threatening the Lake Erie watershed and nearby region and efforts to reduce the threat to these ecosystems.
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The non-profit American Rivers will use the federal funds to take down small, obsolete dams in the Ohio and Susquehanna rivers watersheds.
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A new report by the non-partisan, non-profit group Alliance for the Great Lakes found that 86% of litter collected on Great Lakes beaches contains plastics.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The National Wildlife Federation and the Ohio River Basin Alliance held 31 public listening sessions across the region from June 2022 and May 2023.