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Dec 05, 2018

5.1 million more pounds of ground beef recalled by U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Since Oct. 4, more than 12 million pounds of raw beef have been recalled due to suspected salmonella contamination.

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LISTEN: EHN's Pittsburgh reporter discusses air pollution from U.S. Steel's Clairton Coke Works

PITTSBURGH—EHN's Pittsburgh reporter Kristina Marusic joined Allegheny Front's Kara Holsopple to talk about U.S. Steel's Clairton Coke Works, one of the biggest emitters of air pollution in Pennsylvania.

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Health officials: U.S. Steel faces $743,625 in fines for Clairton Coke Works violations

The Allegheny County Health Department has slapped U.S. Steel with $743,625 in fines for pollution violations at its Clairton Coke Works facility, the agency announced Friday.

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Anglers at the Falls of the Ohio State Park. (Credit: William Alden/flickr)

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Whose job is it to reduce toxic mercury in the Ohio River?

Mercury, which damages young brains, is flowing through industrial wastewater into the Ohio River. But the multi-state agency tasked with keeping the waterway clean hasn't tightened controls on this pollution because it doesn't have the authority to do so.

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Former water conservationist Tim Guilfoile fishes in the Ohio River. (Credit: Tim Guilfoile via Eye on Ohio)

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We mapped out the toxic wastewater discharges along the Ohio River. Here’s what we learned.

All Tim Guilfoile wants to do is fish. Before his retirement, he had two careers: one in business and one in water quality activism.

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Youth Climate Strike in Santa Rosa, Calif., in March 2019. (Credit: Fabrice Florin/flickr)

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Together, we make mud

The noted philosopher Rodney Dangerfield described his fictional marriage in a way that provides insight into the widening gulf in U.S. environmental politics: "She's a water sign. I'm an Earth sign. Together, we make mud."

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Florida to protect Everglades land permitted for oil drilling

A swath of land in the Everglades at the center of a fight between a family determined to drill those urging them not to might finally have a new future.

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Long shaped by fire, Australia enters a perilous new era

The latest massive conflagrations there are evidence that a hotter climate has thrust Australia into a new normal where fires will keep burning on an unprecedented scale.

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How hard is it to quit coal? For Germany, 18 years and $44 billion

The 18-year time frame shows how costly and politically complicated it is to leave the world's dirtiest fossil fuel in the ground.

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2019 was the second-hottest year ever, closing out the warmest decade

Last year was only a fraction of a degree cooler than 2016, the warmest year on record.

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5.1 million more pounds of ground beef recalled by U.S. Department of Agriculture

LISTEN: EHN's Pittsburgh reporter discusses air pollution from U.S. Steel's Clairton Coke Works

Health officials: U.S. Steel faces $743,625 in fines for Clairton Coke Works violations

Whose job is it to reduce toxic mercury in the Ohio River?

We mapped out the toxic wastewater discharges along the Ohio River. Here’s what we learned.

Together, we make mud

Florida to protect Everglades land permitted for oil drilling

Long shaped by fire, Australia enters a perilous new era

How hard is it to quit coal? For Germany, 18 years and $44 billion

2019 was the second-hottest year ever, closing out the warmest decade

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"Texas claims to be very sympathetic to property rights. On the other hand, they support oil and gas. What this project has exposed is that these two priorities are not equal."

Exposed: How willful blindness keeps BPA on shelves and contaminating our bodies

EHN.org investigation finds regulatory push to discredit independent evidence of harm while favoring pro-industry science despite significant shortcomings.

Trump’s other war is going well

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Good River: Our reporters want to hear your Ohio River stories and concerns

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A lasting legacy: DuPont, C8 contamination and the community of Parkersburg left to grapple with the consequences

"We all have stories of friends and family, neighbors, dying too young or being diagnosed with various medical problems"

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Why the air was unsafe to breathe and reeked of "hospital waste" in a Pennsylvania community this Christmas

5.1 million more pounds of ground beef recalled by U.S. Department of Agriculture

"Texas claims to be very sympathetic to property rights. On the other hand, they support oil and gas. What this project has exposed is that these two priorities are not equal."

EHN.org investigation finds regulatory push to discredit independent evidence of harm while favoring pro-industry science despite significant shortcomings.

No, not the war against the press. Or impeachment. Or immigrants. Or reality. But the swamp-draining, regulation-stomping, soul-crushing assault on the environment.

Text "OHIO" to 765-227-2602 to share with our seven-newsroom collaborative.

"We all have stories of friends and family, neighbors, dying too young or being diagnosed with various medical problems"

Why the air was unsafe to breathe and reeked of "hospital waste" in a Pennsylvania community this Christmas

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