What will it take for the American steel industry to go ‘fossil-free’?
Companies in Europe are beginning to cut climate pollution for heavy industries like steel. What will it take to bring these technologies to the U.S.?
Energy
PennEnergy agrees to reduce harmful emissions from oil and gas sites in western Pa.
PennEnergy will make improvements at 49 oil and gas sites in western Pennsylvania and pay a $2 million civil penalty.
Pittsburgh-area battery plant secures $303M loan guarantee to scale up clean energy storage
Eos Energy's Turtle Creek plant will produce longer-lasting battery systems designed to reduce power plants' reliance on fossil fuels.
In Sweden, companies are cleaning up steel production – one of the world’s biggest carbon problems
In Sweden, companies are pioneering a major climate solution: steel made from hydrogen created from renewable energy.
Slag heap goes solar: New green initiative in Pittsburgh set to break ground in 2025
Pittsburgh transforms site of steel manufacturing to green energy for the future.
EQT’s ‘bulldog’ has D.C. in his grip, with profits — and maybe higher gas bills — on the horizon
CEO Toby Rice backed Republican Dave McCormick for Senate and hobnobbed with Donald Trump. Now he’s poised for pipelines, exports and profits.
Fairmont residents press agencies on blast at W.V. fracking waste site
Residents are concerned about an explosion and fire last year at a facility that processes fracking waste.
Hydrogen hubs test new federal environmental justice rules
A massive push for hydrogen energy is one of the first test cases of new federal environmental justice initiatives. Communities and advocates so far give the feds a failing grade.
What’s hampering federal environmental justice efforts in the hydrogen hub build-out?
“Organizational change in large bureaucracies takes time.”
How a Trump victory could stall offshore wind expansion
Trump said he would stop offshore wind on “day one” should he win the election. The wind industry worries about permit delays and proponents worry about jobs.
