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Report: Coal-based steelmaking causes hundreds of premature deaths and billions in health costs nationwide

Reid Frazier·November 21, 2024

It also found nearly 250,000 cases of asthma every year were caused as a result of the air pollution from coal-based steel, such as at U.S. Steel's Mon Valley plants.

Health Pollution Your Environment Update

Turning to Forests for Better Health

Kara Holsopple·October 31, 2024

People are finding that forests are good medicine. To improve health, one local therapist has taken groups 'forest bathing' in Frick Park.

Health Recreation Wild Pennsylvania Your Environment Update

Pennsylvania to receive $43 million in federal funds to remove lead paint from homes

Zoë Read·October 17, 2024

More than 70% of homes in Pennsylvania are estimated to have been built before the 1978 lead paint ban, leaving many kids vulnerable to lead poisoning.

Health Pollution

Federal rule requires all lead pipes to be replaced within 10 years

Zoë Read·October 9, 2024

The new rule will prevent up to 900,000 infants from having low birthweight and avoid up to 1,500 premature deaths a year from heart disease.

Health Water

BASF's "ethane cracker" facility in Port Arthur, Texas. An ethane cracker is a petrochemical plant that manufactures the building blocks of plastics. Photo: BASF

New guidelines center the needs of people with disabilities during petrochemical disasters

Kara Holsopple·October 2, 2024

In light of the East Palestine train derailment, advocates created guidelines for disabled people, municiplaities and industry in case of emergency.

Climate Change Energy Health Your Environment Update

$A flare from a fracking well burns off excess gas near a home.$

Fracking in Pennsylvania hasn’t gone as well as some may think

Susan Phillips·October 2, 2024

Twenty years after the state's first shale gas well was drilled, jobs comprise less than 1% of the workforce, residents fear health impacts and environmental damage continues.

2024 Election Economy Energy Health Pollution

A facility can be seen on top of a hill in the distance, beyond a rural road and trees

EPA issues new order for Westmoreland Co. hazardous waste landfill over stream pollution

Reid Frazier·October 1, 2024

MAX Environmental exceeded pollution limits 20 times for cadmium, zinc and other pollutants discharged into Sewickley Creek.

Health Pollution Water

Bhopal survivors bring message about chemical exposures to Western Pa., East Palestine

Reid Frazier·September 27, 2024

Bhopal survivors address residents exposed to toxic chemicals from the East Palestine derailment and Shell's ethane cracker.

East Palestine Health Pollution

Clairton Coke Works, near Pittsburgh, is Allegheny County's largest single source of particle pollution. Photo: Reid R. Frazier

Allegheny County is offering $5M to support clean air projects. No one has applied

Kiley Koscinski·September 20, 2024

Municipalities and organizations can submit ideas for fleet electrification, tree canopy expansion, equipment electrification, and climate resiliency/adaptation projects. But do it ASAP!

Health Pollution

A drilling rig on a hill with trees below

Scientists skeptical of oil and gas company’s claim that its fracking ‘poses no public health risks’

Reid Frazier·September 18, 2024

CNX is conducting its own air emissions testing as part of a collaboration with the state of Pennsylvania.

Energy Health Pollution Your Environment Update

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