This week we bring you some of the best stories from our Headwaters series, looking at how the Ohio River could be a model for how to clean up our polluted waterways.
In this episode, our Hazardous to Your Health series wraps up with a look at Shell's ethane cracker and air pollution. Plus, a group of volunteers wants to hold on to the greenspace in their neighborhood. And the impact of President Trump's proposed budget cuts on the Great Lakes.
The green slime of toxic algae blooms is likely to make a reappearance on Lake Erie this summer. Researchers want a better way to know if it’s making people sick.
In this episode, federal action on climate change may have stalled, but there are places in America where climate change is still being taken seriously -- citie...
In this episode, we look at a loophole in Pennsylvania's environmental justice program. Plus, we learn about care gardens. And, we try to pinpoint the sweet spot for development on the Ohio River.
In this episode, a conversation about race, class and environmental health. Plus we visit a nonprofit trying to give a voice to people who believe fracking is a...
In this episode, we look into what a loss in federal funding could mean for the Great Lakes. Plus, a researcher's new theory about pollution and the fracking in...
This week, we continue our series Hazardous to Your Health. We hear from community activists who are literally sick of industrial pollution and are looking for solutions from people who've been through it. Plus, an environmental lawyer says Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Climate agreement shouldn't surprise anyone--just look at some of his other policies. And is a new coal plant bucking the industry trend?
This week we begin a new series, Hazardous to Your Health. We'll visit two communities near Pittsburgh--each with a history of industrial pollution. And we'll talk with the people who live there about how their attitudes toward nearby Coke plants--and their emissions--are changing.
