She scored big victories helping Boston restore its beaches and plan for climate change. Now, Vivien Li has come to Pittsburgh, and she has high hopes for where the city's riverfronts are headed next.
Ohio State University is getting serious about transforming the state’s agricultural system. How serious? Try $100 million serious. So where does that leave Pennsylvania?
Congress is set to update a 40-year-old law regulating toxic chemicals in everyday products. But a watchdog group says the new regs were basically written by and for industry.
While the state was trying to reassure residents that their lead-tainted water was safe, ACLU reporter Curt Guyette started digging deeper and uncovered an epic environmental tragedy.
Thousands of Pennsylvanians live within the evacuation zone of a potential oil train accident. But people of color and low-income communities are shouldering a larger share of the risk.
Fights over whether homeowners can sell excess solar power back to utilities are raging across the country. But Pennsylvania's recent decision on net metering could be a model compromise.
Kara Holsopple likes to tell environmental stories that surprise listeners, and connect them to people and places nearby, and in the wider world. Kara is a lifelong resident of southwestern Pennsylvania, except for her undergraduate years at Sarah Lawrence College. She earned a masters degree in professional writing from Chatham University, and has been a features writer for regional magazines. Kara got her start in radio working with Pittsburgh Indymedia’s Rustbelt Radio. She produced "The Allegheny Front Rewind" series, celebrating the show's 20th anniversary, and her work has been heard on The Environment Report, Inside Appalachia and Here & Now. One summer she read all of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple & Poirot detective novels.