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

A woman in a yellow shirt stands next to a long sign on a fence that reads in part, "No More Hazardous Waste...Max Environmental"

EPA consent order requires hazardous waste landfill to submit to an audit. Residents say it’s not enough

Reid Frazier·May 2, 2024

Yukon residents wanted the MAX Environmental facility shut down. EPA found nearly two dozen violations, including piles of hazardous waste exposed to the elements.

Health Pollution Water

New EPA rules cut carbon, mercury and other pollution from coal and gas plants

Reid Frazier·April 26, 2024

The new rules include limits on climate-altering carbon dioxide from existing coal and new natural gas power plants.

Climate Change Energy

Offshore wind, a potential clean energy source for the East Coast, slowly takes shape

Reid Frazier·April 22, 2024

An early look at how offshore wind is developing as a clean energy source for the East Coast.

Climate Change Economy Energy

Attorney General files criminal charges against Shell on whistleblower reports over pipeline spills

Reid Frazier·April 19, 2024

Former pipeline employees told investigators the company was underreporting spills of drilling mud during construction of a pipeline that feeds the company’s ethane cracker.

Energy Your Environment Update

Largest solar project in Pa. to be built on former coal mine with $90M federal grant

Reid Frazier·March 28, 2024

The Clearfield County project would be built on 2,700 acres of former mine land northwest of State College.

Climate Change Energy

The site of a former china factory, Jackson Ceramix, in Clearfield and Jefferson counties. Image: EPA

EPA seeks entry to abandoned land near Dubois contaminated with lead, arsenic, other pollutants

Reid Frazier·March 21, 2024

The EPA filed a request for a court order to enter the unclaimed triangular parcel that sits in the Jackson Ceramix Superfund site.

Pollution

A massive tower of flames with black smoke as seen from afar

Taxpayers subsidize polluting plastics plants like Shell’s ethane cracker, report finds

Reid Frazier·March 19, 2024

Many plastics plants that have received tax incentives like Shell's Beaver County facility routinely break environmental laws.

Energy Pollution

EPA leaves out existing natural gas-fired power plants from carbon rule

Reid Frazier·March 8, 2024

The EPA will hold off on regulating carbon emissions from existing natural gas plants. The new rule will cover coal-fired and new gas-fired power plants.

Climate Change Energy

A cluster of gray bats hanging on a cave wall

DEP: CNX pipeline project in Westmoreland County withdrawn, lacked wildlife permits

Reid Frazier·March 1, 2024

DEP found that CNX's project failed to get federal wildlife clearances. The project was near the Beaver Run Reservoir.

Conservation Energy Water Wild Pennsylvania Wildlife

What you need to know about soot, U.S. Steel and Pittsburgh’s air

Reid Frazier·February 16, 2024

How the latest news about a new soot standard, a settlement with U.S. Steel and EPA's rejection of the company's air permit could impact Pittsburgh's air.

Health Pollution Your Environment Update

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EPA terminates $15M climate justice grant to Pittsburgh and Philly non-profits

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Reid Frazier

EPA consent order requires hazardous waste landfill to submit to an audit. Residents say it’s not enough

New EPA rules cut carbon, mercury and other pollution from coal and gas plants

Offshore wind, a potential clean energy source for the East Coast, slowly takes shape

Attorney General files criminal charges against Shell on whistleblower reports over pipeline spills

Largest solar project in Pa. to be built on former coal mine with $90M federal grant

EPA seeks entry to abandoned land near Dubois contaminated with lead, arsenic, other pollutants

Taxpayers subsidize polluting plastics plants like Shell’s ethane cracker, report finds

EPA leaves out existing natural gas-fired power plants from carbon rule

DEP: CNX pipeline project in Westmoreland County withdrawn, lacked wildlife permits

What you need to know about soot, U.S. Steel and Pittsburgh’s air