‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ casts shade over Pennsylvania’s solar boom
The future of solar installation companies and manufacturing plants is in doubt with the early phase out of tax credits in the new law.
Economy
Trump’s tax cut bill turned a clean energy tax credit into an instrument to boost coal
Metallurgical coal is used in steelmaking is a significant greenhouse gas polluter. Companies that mine metallurgical coal are now in line to receive a 2.5 percent tax credit.
Trump came to Pittsburgh to promote AI in Pennsylvania. Here’s what you need to know.
Tech leaders, politicians and gas industry executives joined the president at Carnegie Mellon University, amid protests.
Data centers are encroaching on this Pennsylvania town, so locals are taking action early
In Luzerne County, some Dorrance Township residents fear environmental damage, stress on the water table and energy usage from data centers.
Pennsylvania is ‘poised to lead the next era’ in AI and energy, McCormick says at CMU summit
U.S. Sen. McCormick kicked off the summit on AI and energy by pledging to unveil tens of billions of dollars in investment. Gas, coal and nuclear are being pushed to power the needed data centers.
PA leaders, Trump to meet at CMU about AI, as data centers threaten to worsen climate change
By 2030, data centers for AI use in the U.S. could be responsible for as much CO2, the main ingredient in climate change, as the country of France.
Pa.’s SPEED program lets developers skip line for environmental review of some construction permits
Developers support the program, saying "time is money." While environmental groups fear a "rubber-stamp" for construction permits.
Pa. lawmakers consider new state board to fast-track electricity projects
Environmental groups are divided on whether to support a new state board that would expedite the siting of electricity projects.
Will Australia revisit the deal that led a Pittsburgh firm to depend on the ore beneath its trees?
Alcoa’s Western Australia division is one of the world's largest alumina producing operations. Some say its decades-old agreement puts drinking water at risk.
Alcoa’s Australian refineries drove flight from two towns, and its waste threatens a third
Some residents say toxic dust from Alcoa's three sprawling industrial facilities along the southwestern coast of Australia is making them sick.
