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‘The Triumph of Doubt’ Digs into How Dark Money Fuels Mistrust of Science

Kara Holsopple·March 27, 2020

This new book outlines how industry efforts to defend their products have clouded trust in science and impacted regulations for things like beryllium, opiods and diesel exhaust.

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Pa. Proposes to Relax Non-Residential Lead Cleanup Standards

Catalina Jaramillo·March 6, 2020

The Environmental Quality Board is also proposing to add three new PFAS chemicals to its voluntary clean up standards for soil and groundwater.

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Clean Water Wanted: Contaminated Wells and the Legacy of Fossil Fuel Extraction

Benny Becker·March 6, 2020

With their well water contaminated, a West Virginia family is desperate to get connected to a clean water supply. They blame pollution from years of coal and gas extraction.

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Class Action Settlement Delivers $2 Million to Residents Living Near Clairton Coke Works

Sarah Boden·February 25, 2020

The settlement resolved a class action lawsuit that claims pollution from the Clairton Coke Woks created a nuisance and hurt nearby property values.

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U.S. Steel, Health Department Finalize Air Pollution Settlement Agreement

Kathleen J. Davis·February 11, 2020

The final settlement requires U.S. Steel to pay $2.7 million in fines as well as make $200 million worth of improvements to the facility.

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Feds Lower Coal Mine Cleanup Funding for Pennsylvania

Reid Frazier·February 7, 2020

One reason: less coal mining means less money to clean up the 300,000 acres of abandoned mine lands and the 5,000 miles of waterways polluted from coal mining in the state.

Energy Pollution Wild Pennsylvania

Clean Water Group to Start Monitoring Near Proposed Ethane Cracker in Ohio

Julie Grant·February 7, 2020

Freshwater Accountability Project will collect air and water quality data near schools, and daycare and senior centers close to the site in Belmont County.

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Investigation: Oil and Gas Workers Exposed to Radioactivity from Drilling Waste

Kara Holsopple·January 31, 2020

A conversation with the journalist who wrote the Rolling Stone article based on his two-year investigation into the industry, worker safety and the regulatory blackhole that leaves people at risk.

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Ohio Group Worried About Water Pollution From Ethane Cracker Gets State Meeting, But Little Action

Julie Grant·January 31, 2020

The group is concerned that plastic pellets from a proposed cracker plant in Belmont County, Ohio will pollute the Ohio River.

Energy Pollution The Coming Chemical Boom Water

A Decade of Cleaner Air Ended in Controversy and Questions about Allegheny County’s Future

PublicSource·January 24, 2020

Recent fires at the Clairton Coke Works and temperature inversions have sparked a debate about what should be done to address air pollution in the county.

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Solar savings for Clairton, other Pa. schools at risk from proposed federal cuts

Pa. solar installers say GOP’s U.S. House tax bill is a ‘disaster’ for business

Allegheny National Forest will increase logging by millions of board feet this year

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‘The Triumph of Doubt’ Digs into How Dark Money Fuels Mistrust of Science

Pa. Proposes to Relax Non-Residential Lead Cleanup Standards

Clean Water Wanted: Contaminated Wells and the Legacy of Fossil Fuel Extraction

Class Action Settlement Delivers $2 Million to Residents Living Near Clairton Coke Works

U.S. Steel, Health Department Finalize Air Pollution Settlement Agreement

Feds Lower Coal Mine Cleanup Funding for Pennsylvania

Clean Water Group to Start Monitoring Near Proposed Ethane Cracker in Ohio

Investigation: Oil and Gas Workers Exposed to Radioactivity from Drilling Waste

Ohio Group Worried About Water Pollution From Ethane Cracker Gets State Meeting, But Little Action

A Decade of Cleaner Air Ended in Controversy and Questions about Allegheny County’s Future