Community meeting for new hot strip mill in Braddock gets heated
Health department officials said their modeling showed the project wouldn’t cause Allegheny County to exceed federal air pollution limits.
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Light pollution, wildfire smoke threaten our view of the stars
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Light pollution and consecutive summers of Canadian wildfires have made it harder to stargaze in even the most remote places in Philadelphia’s suburbs.
Clean air group weighs in on Gov. Shapiro joining lawsuit challenging EPA repeal of power plant climate rules
Shapiro joined a coalition of states challenging the EPA for eliminating Biden-era rules to limit greenhouse gas emissions at power plants.
Microplastics found in Delaware River watershed; environmentalists call for plastics crackdown
Microplastics were found in every sample taken from 22 waterways in the Delaware River watershed, including the Schuylkill River.
Researchers find microplastics in insects from Schuylkill River watershed
Insects were most likely to ingest microplastics by eating algae that contains particles, or by feeding on organic silt along stream edges and in pools.
In Upper Burrell, where fracking and AI industries converge, residents look to regulate data center
Residents of Upper Burrell in Western Pennsylvania already living with the environmental burdens of fracking now have a data center.
Film fest in Pittsburgh puts spotlight on train crash, pipeline fight
The Allegheny Front is a sponsor of the Backyard Docs Film Festival that opens Thursday, September 24.
Shapiro calls on Trump to regulate artificial intelligence development
At a conference in Pittsburgh, Gov. Shapiro called for the federal government to rein in the development of AI.
Inadequate safety and training led to 2025 blast at Shell’s ethane cracker, federal safety board finds
The agency found one of the engineers who initiated the procedure that precipitated the explosion “had never previously performed the task.”
Pa. fines Shell $15 million for air pollution from its Beaver County plastics plant
The plant went over the allowable limit for benzene, a carcinogen, and it failed to perform testing required by the state.
