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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Congress appropriated $7 billion to fund the hubs through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. One of President Trump’s first executive orders calls for all agencies to pause funding through the law, although federal judges have blocked similar spending freezes by Trump. -
Two workers were injured at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works early Wednesday after a buildup of gases ignited at the plant. -
Under the Biden administration, the EPA awarded the grant to Allegheny County as part of a nationwide program funded in part by the Inflation Reduction Act. -
Jobs in clean energy are expanding faster in Pennsylvania than the state’s overall economy, and those numbers are expected to keep growing. -
Put together, U.S. Steel’s Man Valley Works plants are the largest single source of air pollution in the Pittsburgh region. Their fate, and 3,000 jobs, remain uncertain. -
Sweden’s grid is powered almost entirely by hydroelectric, nuclear and wind power. This zero-carbon energy has put the country at the forefront of a green manufacturing boom. -
Steel has traditionally been made with coal, which emits large amounts of carbon dioxide, and making it currently accounts for 10% of global CO2 emissions. -
Steel production, which usually heavily uses coal, is estimated to account for as much as 10% of global emissions of carbon dioxide, the key driver of global warming. -
An environmental group wants state regulators to tighten water pollution requirements for U.S. Steel to get the company to stop releasing oil from one of its Pittsburgh-area plants into the Monongahela River. -
The report from Industrious Labs, an environmental group that works to lower carbon emissions from the industrial sector, found health costs from coal-based steel in the U.S. were up to $13 billion.
