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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Following the February derailment, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine is looking at questions about health from East Palestine residents to help inform future research.
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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is convening a committee of experts in public health, epidemiology, and emergency response to understand the health questions that remain.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is ordering Allegheny County to rewrite its air permit for U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works.
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The White House says the program will train 20,000 young people in clean energy, conservation, and climate resilience.
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On an August morning at Thompson’s Bay, along the shoreline of Lake Erie in Presque Isle State Park, the Penn State Behrend “snail squad” stepped into the water, wearing waders.
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During an online symposium discussing the incident, organizations and activists discussed the community's response, public officials' promises about health and safety and environmental implications.
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Environmental and community groups are calling on the EPA to ban vinyl chloride, a chemical used to make PVC pipes and many other consumer products. It’s also the chemical vented from five derailed train cars in East Palestine, Ohio, earlier this year.
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The Allegheny Front’s Julie Grant speaks with US EPA Regional Administrator Debra Shore, who visited farms in the East Palestine area and nearby Pennsylvania this month.
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Most people surveyed in the aftermath of the train derailment and chemical fire in East Palestine reported health symptoms related to the February incident. Federal and state health officials released survey results at a public meeting Tuesday evening.
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Two environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against Shell for repeated violations of its air permit at its ethane cracker in Beaver County, along the Ohio River.