Reid Frazier | Allegheny Front
Energy ReporterReid R. Frazier covers energy for The Allegheny Front. His work has taken him as far away as Texas and Louisiana to report on the petrochemical industry and as close to home as Greene County, Pennsylvania to cover the shale gas boom. His award-winning work has also aired on NPR, Marketplace and other outlets. Reid is currently contributing to StateImpact Pennsylvania, a collaboration among The Allegheny Front, WESA, WITF and WHYY covering the Commonwealth's energy economy. Email: reid@alleghenyfront.org
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Pennsylvania will get receive hundreds of millions in federal grants to lower carbon dioxide pollution from the industrial sector, the state’s largest source of greenhouse gases.
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It’s been a year since Pennsylvania’s largest coal-fired power plant shut down. Like hundreds of these plants around the country, the Homer City generating station, in Indiana County, faced stiff competition from natural gas and renewables.
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Last month, CNX unveiled plans to turn coal mine methane — a potent greenhouse gas that gets vented to the atmosphere at mines around the country — into ‘sustainable’ aviation fuel.
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A new rule finalized by the EPA last month will require U.S. Steel and other companies around the country to set up fenceline monitoring for air pollution around its coke plants.
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The Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub, or ARCH2, was one of seven “clean hydrogen hubs” awarded by the Department of Energy last year.
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The regulations are part of a regular review of the coke oven rules, which the agency first created in the 1990s.
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Last year, EPA investigators found nearly two dozen violations at the Max Environmental Technologies hazardous waste landfill in Yukon, Westmoreland County.
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Offshore wind, which makes electricity without emitting carbon dioxide, is a key plank of President Biden’s plan to lower carbon emissions.
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The most sweeping of the rules are the CO2 limits on coal and new natural gas plants. They require carbon capture, improved efficiency or co-firing with “low-emitting” fuels at these plants.
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Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry charged Shell Pipeline Friday with chronically underreporting spills of industrial waste during construction of a pipeline feeding the company’s Beaver County ethane cracker.