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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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.
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The Department of Energy is awarding $90 million to a company that has promised to build what would be the largest solar project in the state on a former coal mine in central Pennsylvania.
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The state Department of Environmental Protection found the plant violated clean air laws 19 times since beginning operations two years ago — and fined it over $10 million.
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The EPA is seeking a court order to enter an unclaimed parcel of land on a Superfund site in northwestern Pennsylvania that once housed a ceramics factory.
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A fleet of new plastics plants in the U.S. often release illegal levels of air pollution, even while receiving big tax breaks from state and local governments, the report found.
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The Biden administration’s recent announcement that it would hold off on regulating carbon emissions from existing natural gas plants means the agency will wait until after the election to regulate one of Pennsylvania’s largest sources of carbon pollution: existing natural gas-fired power plants.
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The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has shelved a natural gas pipeline project in Westmoreland County after the company behind it failed to get necessary federal wildlife approvals.
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Several environmental groups petitioned the EPA to object to the permit, issued in August by the Allegheny County Health Department, because it did not require enough testing to ensure that the Braddock steel mill was in compliance with emissions limits.
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The EPA has been testing outdoor air all year in East Palestine for volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, like the chemicals released in the derailment.