Pollution Archives

Settlement Requires Coal Plants to Get Permits With Tighter Pollution Controls

Reid Frazier·January 12, 2018

The settlement, filed in Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, pertains to 10 coal-fired power plants around the state that have been operating on expired water pollution permits for years — in one case for 17 years.

Energy Pollution

Cleaning Up Coal: Future or Folly?

Madelyn Beck·December 30, 2017

Is “clean coal” an oxymoron or an innovative energy source that will help us beat climate change?

Energy Politics Pollution Your Environment Update

Living With Oil and Gas

Leigh Paterson·December 22, 2017

As more drilling rigs encroach on subdivisions across the country, what happens when people and oil and gas become neighbors?

Energy Pollution

Coke Plant Agrees to $1.5 Million Penalty for Air Pollution in Western Pa. Community

Reid Frazier·December 20, 2017

In a settlement filed Wednesday in federal court in Pittsburgh, ArcelorMittal agreed to pay $1.5 million to state and federal regulators, and donate $300,000 to a local charity to implement clean air programs.

Pollution

Glitter Spreads More than Holiday Cheer

Kara Holsopple·December 15, 2017

This time of year, glitter is everywhere: holiday cards, decorations -- and in our waterways.

Pollution Water Your Environment Update

An aerial view of a natural gas well pad

Fracking Linked to Low Birth Weight in Infants Born in Pennsylvania

Susan Phillips·December 15, 2017

The study tried to answer, "How close do we have to be to the fracking before there is a health effect?"

Health Pollution

As Neighborhood Changes, Residents Worry About Pollution from Legacy Industry

Andy Kubis·December 9, 2017

Residents are hoping their testimony at a recent hearing on a proposed operating permit for a foundry in Lawrenceville will result in increased monitoring and more transparency.

Pollution

PA, States Sue EPA for Missing Ozone Deadline

Reid Frazier·December 6, 2017

Pennsylvania is one of more than a dozen states suing the EPA for failing to enforce on an important air pollution regulation.

Politics Pollution

Industrial Strength: How the U.S. Government Hid Fracking’s Risks to Drinking Water

Neela Banerjee·December 1, 2017

A pivotal EPA study provided the rationale for exemptions that helped unleash the fracking boom. The science was suppressed to protect industry interests.

Environmental Justice Pollution Water

$A truck delivers fracking wastewater$

Lycoming County Drilling Wastewater Spill Tops 63,000 Gallons

Reid Frazier·November 17, 2017

Drilling waste reached a small stream but regulators say they don't believe the spill will threaten drinking water supplies.

Pollution

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Settlement Requires Coal Plants to Get Permits With Tighter Pollution Controls

Cleaning Up Coal: Future or Folly?

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Coke Plant Agrees to $1.5 Million Penalty for Air Pollution in Western Pa. Community

Glitter Spreads More than Holiday Cheer

Fracking Linked to Low Birth Weight in Infants Born in Pennsylvania

As Neighborhood Changes, Residents Worry About Pollution from Legacy Industry

PA, States Sue EPA for Missing Ozone Deadline

Industrial Strength: How the U.S. Government Hid Fracking’s Risks to Drinking Water

Lycoming County Drilling Wastewater Spill Tops 63,000 Gallons