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PITTSBURGH—Do you smell that?
Congressional Democrats and environmental advocates suffered a stinging setback with the release of a defense policy bill this week that lacks key provisions to crack down on a widespread class of chemicals linked to serious health problems.
Agreement requires steelmaker to make additional pollution controls at coke works and pay residents for odor and soot issues.
The financial struggles of the U.S. shale industry are becoming increasingly hard to ignore, but drillers in Appalachia are in particularly bad shape.
The tours are open to the public and consist of tours near properties that have well sites, compressor stations and other natural gas activities.
The Trump administration has approved the shipment of liquified natural gas from the fracking fields of Pennsylvania to a port on the Delaware River in South Jersey.
When the petrochemical plant being built by Shell Chemical Appalachia in Beaver County is complete, it's anticipated to bring 600 jobs as well as spinoff industries. But some researchers and activists warn that it could also bring a new type of pollution to the Ohio River Valley — nurdles.
A new state report indicates that Pennsylvanians are breathing cleaner air. However, one big exception includes residents living near U.S. Steel's Clairton Coke Works facility in Allegheny County.
Typically, economic performance of nations, states, and metropolitan areas is measured using Gross Domestic Product. We propose an adjustment to this official performance metric: the subtraction of pollution damage from GDP.
As gas prices show no signs of rising, multinationals are leaving the region to greener pastures while smaller firms double down.
Research reveals that Pittsburgh children who grew up just blocks away from one another have had very different life outcomes in income, employment and incarceration, among other results.
Despite widespread scientific agreement that the climate is facing a climate emergency, shale pipeline executives attending this year's Marcellus Utica Midstream conference last week heard a very different message.
Among its major focuses are premature birth, infant mortality, asthma prevalence, obesity and weight and violence among youth.
Eighteen of 70 Pittsburgh Public Schools buildings were found to have lead in recent testing, the district disclosed in a report.