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Where do Allegheny County’s elected officials stand on the fight over fracking and cracker plants?

Two factions are wrestling over the future of the natural-gas and petrochemical industries in the region, and whether to support their growth or to transition away.

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GASP, Patagonia Pittsburgh team up to get word out on H2S

The Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP) is teaming up with Patagonia Pittsburgh to let people know: It's well past time we do something about the often pervasive rotten egg odor caused by hydrogen sulfide emissions by meeting the H2S standard—one that is exceeded dozens of times each year in Allegheny County.

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Justice

Trailblazing group of attorneys who enforced Pennsylvania environmental laws in 1970s looks to ‘rise again’

New environmental laws and the creation of the EPA created an opening for what became informally known as the “environmental strike force.” Now, some of them want to take up the cause again.

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Toxics

Pittsburgh mayor’s comments set off controversy over petrochemical industry’s impact to Western Pa.

In speaking out against the petrochemical industry, Bill Peduto has kicked over a hornet's nest among the region's business and political class.

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Energy

Western Pa. lawmakers fight Gov. Wolf on Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

A group of lawmakers from Western Pennsylvania is challenging Gov. Tom Wolf's effort to make Pennsylvania a member of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), saying the resulting carbon tax will hurt the state's energy sector and consumers.

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Toxics

Shale gas stymies efforts to combat climate change

Researchers say big investments in gas as bridge fuel will slow the switch to renewables needed to mitigate impacts of a changing climate.

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Opinion

Ashley Macik: Bill Peduto is right to denounce the petrochemical buildout in Western Pennsylvania

The health of our community and environment is more important than prosperity.

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Energy

Commonwealth Court upholds Penn Township fracking rules

Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Court upheld a ruling that will allow gas well fracking to continue in Penn Township.

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Energy

PA Senator takes preventative measures as dems call for fracking bans

Pennsylvania’s Republican US Senator introduced a resolution he hopes will enable Congress to defeat future presidents’ fracking bans in court.

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Energy

Fact checking Gov. Tom Wolf’s KDKA radio interview on cracker plants and natural gas

Wolf claimed in the roughly six-minute interview that cracker plants and continuation of the natural gas industry would be a net good for the environment, and disagreed with Peduto's denouncement of the petrochemical industry. City Paper has identified three major claims made by Wolf and has fact-checked them to determine their accuracy.

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Toxics

In radio interview, Wolf breaks with Pittsburgh's Peduto on nat gas, enraging environmentalists

A war of words between labor and environmentalists — with Democrats in the middle — roared back into the spotlight Tuesday when Gov. Tom Wolf waded in, saying that more petrochemical development was “exactly what we need" in western Pennsylvania to meet clean energy standards.

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Originals

Pittsburgh's Neville Island residents could have been drinking PFAS-contaminated water for a month, township officials say

Editor's note: This story was originally published by PublicSource and is part of an ongoing collaboration between Environmental Health News and PublicSource on PFAS contamination in Pennsylvania.

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Energy

Trump administration proposes rollbacks from two Obama-era coal pollution rules

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed relaxing two Obama-era regulations on waste products from coal-fired power plants, a move environmental groups say would prolong the risk of toxic spills or drinking water contamination.

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Justice

Public health experts flunk report tying Pennsylvania air quality improvements to gas drilling

Last week, a nationwide study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) found that the country's air quality deteriorated in 2017 and 2018 — a dramatic reversal of improvements recorded over the prior seven years.

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Energy

Ohio-Based Coal Giant Murray Energy Declares Bankruptcy

The largest underground coal mining company in America said it faces billions of dollars in debt and liabilities, and tough market conditions for coal.

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What the petrochemical buildout along the Ohio River means for regional communities and beyond

The Ohio River Valley, like the rest of the U.S., stands at a crossroads of energy and industry, facing decisions about whether to turn toward a future of renewable energy and a green jobs revolution or one of shale gas and plastics.

Where do Allegheny County’s elected officials stand on the fight over fracking and cracker plants?

GASP, Patagonia Pittsburgh team up to get word out on H2S

Trailblazing group of attorneys who enforced Pennsylvania environmental laws in 1970s looks to ‘rise again’

Pittsburgh mayor’s comments set off controversy over petrochemical industry’s impact to Western Pa.

Western Pa. lawmakers fight Gov. Wolf on Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Shale gas stymies efforts to combat climate change

Ashley Macik: Bill Peduto is right to denounce the petrochemical buildout in Western Pennsylvania

Commonwealth Court upholds Penn Township fracking rules

PA Senator takes preventative measures as dems call for fracking bans

Fact checking Gov. Tom Wolf’s KDKA radio interview on cracker plants and natural gas

In radio interview, Wolf breaks with Pittsburgh's Peduto on nat gas, enraging environmentalists

Pittsburgh's Neville Island residents could have been drinking PFAS-contaminated water for a month, township officials say

Trump administration proposes rollbacks from two Obama-era coal pollution rules

Public health experts flunk report tying Pennsylvania air quality improvements to gas drilling

Ohio-Based Coal Giant Murray Energy Declares Bankruptcy

Bhopal nocturne

35 years after the chemical industry's worst accident, have we learned any lessons? A petrochemical buildout along the Ohio River suggests we haven't.

Federal tests 'dramatically' undercount BPA and other chemical exposures

Researchers say federal agencies use highly inaccurate tests to estimate exposure to BPA—findings that extend to multiple other harmful chemicals that get into our bodies

Coraopolis drinking water shows PFAS contamination among highest in Pennsylvania, but below federal advisory

PFAS contamination has previously been found at two nearby military bases.

Exposed: A scientific stalemate leaves our hormones and health at risk

American industry, aided by federal regulators, is conducting a large-scale, consequential experiment with our hormones and the developing brains and reproductive systems of our children.

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.

What the petrochemical buildout along the Ohio River means for regional communities and beyond

The Ohio River Valley, like the rest of the U.S., stands at a crossroads of energy and industry, facing decisions about whether to turn toward a future of renewable energy and a green jobs revolution or one of shale gas and plastics.

35 years after the chemical industry's worst accident, have we learned any lessons? A petrochemical buildout along the Ohio River suggests we haven't.

Researchers say federal agencies use highly inaccurate tests to estimate exposure to BPA—findings that extend to multiple other harmful chemicals that get into our bodies

PFAS contamination has previously been found at two nearby military bases.

American industry, aided by federal regulators, is conducting a large-scale, consequential experiment with our hormones and the developing brains and reproductive systems of our children.

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

The Ohio River Valley, like the rest of the U.S., stands at a crossroads of energy and industry, facing decisions about whether to turn toward a future of renewable energy and a green jobs revolution or one of shale gas and plastics.

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