Susan Scott Peterson
Morning Edition ProducerSusan Scott Peterson is an audio producer and writer whose journalism, radio and literary work have appeared with Vox Media, New Hampshire Public Radio, Allegheny Front, The Texas Observer and The Rumpus. She produces longform oral history interviews for her business Extra/Ordinary Stories.
Before moving to Pittsburgh, she directed environmental sustainability for an affordable housing nonprofit in Austin, Texas, where she led the installation of a megawatt of solar power. She traveled nationally as an invited speaker and her work was recognized by the city with a Net Zero Hero award.
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Anna Balazs is a polymer physicist at the University of Pittsburgh. For decades, she worked with Steven Levitan, a Pitt electrical engineer — who also happened to be her husband. He was her closest collaborator, in life and in science. -
Many local organic farmers had their best season ever in 2020. But with this year’s inflation at its highest since 1990, farms are facing uncertainty in 2022 as they grapple with rising costs of farming inputs like fertilizer, seed, propane and greenhouse plastic. -
As driving has gotten more dangerous, the city has seen an unmeetable demand for traffic-calming installations. -
New CDC guidance means a big increase in the number of Allegheny County kids whose blood levels are considered elevated. -
Under the contract, The Efficiency Network will replace the city’s 35,000 existing streetlights with LED fixtures. The city will also add 15,000 new streetlights to neighborhoods where less than 85 percent of the area is illuminated by streetlights. -
The facility houses laboratory space where scientists can pilot different water treatments to remove a group of chemicals known as PFAS. -
Environmental advocacy nonprofit PennEnvironment released a letter Wednesday signed by 100 Pittsburgh businesses and organizations in support of a plastic bag ban, an ordinance expected to come before City Council later this fall. -
Pittsburgh is piloting “smart loading zones,” which use pole-mounted video cameras, machine learning, a short-term fee structure and an app to help drivers get in and out of loading zones more efficiently. -
Many Downtown workers have not gone back to the office yet. But energy use in office buildings has stayed close to pre-pandemic levels. -
The company plans to go public later this year.
