Energy Reporter

Reid R. Frazier covers energy for The Allegheny Front. His work has taken him as far away as Texas and Louisiana to report on the petrochemical industry and as close to home as Greene County, Pennsylvania to cover the shale gas boom. His award-winning work has also aired on NPR, Marketplace and other outlets. Reid recently received a fellowship from MIT's Environmental Solutions Initiative.

Reid Frazier

The front page of the Post-Gazette on January 8, 2026, announcing the PG to cease publication,

What closing the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette means for the region’s environmental reporting

Reid Frazier·January 23, 2026

Don Hopey and David Templeton covered environmental news for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette before retiring. When reporters stop covering the environment, "the public is not hearing the information it needs to hear."

Culture Energy Latest Stories Pollution

An aerial view of the 80 MW solar field in Adams County.

How Trump’s anti-renewables policies collide with growth of AI

Reid Frazier·January 16, 2026

What do Trump’s anti-renewables actions mean for the electricity sector, which is racing to keep up with artificial intelligence?

Climate Change Energy Latest Stories Trump on Earth

Meta reaches agreement to buy electricity from Beaver Valley nuclear plant to fuel AI data centers

Reid Frazier·January 12, 2026

Increased power demand from AI has given a boost to the nation’s nuclear industry, as a source of zero-carbon electricity, to an increasingly power-hungry tech industry.

Energy Technology

Keeping Track of Pennsylvania’s Resurgent Black Bear Population

Reid Frazier·December 18, 2025

Meet Pennsylvania's bear biologist as she gathers data on one of the state's 16,000 black bears. The population has rebounded in the last 30 years.

Conservation Wild Pennsylvania Wildlife

EPA hears competing views on new rollbacks for wetlands, water protections

Reid Frazier·December 17, 2025

The EPA held a hearing in Pittsburgh on a rule change that would eliminate federal protections for about 80 percent of wetlands.

Trump on Earth Water

How Trump rollbacks on water and species protection could impact Pennsylvania

Reid Frazier·December 11, 2025

Changes could remove millions of acres of wetlands from federal protection and push plant and animal species toward extinction.

Conservation Trump on Earth Water Wildlife Your Environment Update

U.S. Steel agrees to pay $135K fine, end oily releases into Mon River at Irvin Works

Reid Frazier·December 4, 2025

U.S. Steel agreed to find out where the oil is coming from and fix the problem. The company will also install cameras to monitor its discharge into the river.

Pollution Water

A sprawling industrial facility with a large American flag on the side of a building, along a river.

Trump reverses course on coke oven rule for toxic air pollution, granting 2-year waivers to comply

Reid Frazier·November 26, 2025

U.S. Steel applauds the move while environmental groups say it puts the health of communities near coke plants at risk.

Environmental Justice Health Pollution Trump on Earth

A yellow boom in the river with oily sheen on the water near the shoreline.

Companies agree to $3.3M settlement with DEP over oil pollution in Allegheny River

Reid Frazier·November 26, 2025

The oil and tar pollution dates back to when the site was a refinery owned by Standard Oil and Atlantic Refining from 1868 to 1930.

Pollution Water

Second coal mine proposed in the Laurel Highlands met with opposition: ‘I wish it wasn’t coming’

Reid Frazier·November 17, 2025

A company wants to open up a mine for metallurgical coal, used to make steel. But some residents are worried about mine subsidence and its impact on water quality.

Climate Change Pollution Trump on Earth

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Reid Frazier

What closing the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette means for the region’s environmental reporting

How Trump’s anti-renewables policies collide with growth of AI

Meta reaches agreement to buy electricity from Beaver Valley nuclear plant to fuel AI data centers

Keeping Track of Pennsylvania’s Resurgent Black Bear Population

EPA hears competing views on new rollbacks for wetlands, water protections

How Trump rollbacks on water and species protection could impact Pennsylvania

U.S. Steel agrees to pay $135K fine, end oily releases into Mon River at Irvin Works

Trump reverses course on coke oven rule for toxic air pollution, granting 2-year waivers to comply

Companies agree to $3.3M settlement with DEP over oil pollution in Allegheny River

Second coal mine proposed in the Laurel Highlands met with opposition: ‘I wish it wasn’t coming’