New Book Explores Private Land, Public Good and Fracking in Pennsylvania

Kara HolsoppleApril 21, 2021

A sociologist looks at how the environmental and community impacts of the natural gas boom in Lycoming County challenged closely-held rural values of independence and private property rights.

EnergyYour Environment Update

Frogs and Salamanders Get a New Habitat at Ohiopyle State Park

Kara HolsoppleApril 15, 2021

Amphibians will use a vernal pool to mate and lay eggs. Their young will mature in the temporary pond and then head back into the woods. They will return next year to continue the cycle.

ConservationWild PennsylvaniaWildlifeYour Environment Update

Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Takes on Climate Change to Create Jobs

Reid FrazierApril 2, 2021

The American Jobs Plan would ready roads and bridges for bigger storms, grow renewable energy, and clean up polluted communities.

EconomyEnergyPoliticsYour Environment Update

Five Ways Pittsburgh Hopes to Make Its Water System More Equitable

Kara HolsoppleMarch 31, 2021

A task force looked at how affordable, safe drinking water, effective stormwater management, and maintaining public control of the utility could be achieved to benefit all residents in Pittsburgh.

Environmental JusticeWaterYour Environment Update

Spring is Here, But Is Nature in Sync?

Kara HolsoppleMarch 26, 2021

Researchers are collecting local plants and using Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden,” and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History's collection for clues.

Climate ChangeConservationWild PennsylvaniaYour Environment Update

DEP Pointed Feds to Whistleblower Complaints About Shell Pipeline

Reid FrazierMarch 18, 2021

The complaint alleges that defective corrosion coatings were used on the Falcone pipeline that will feed Shell's ethane cracker in Beaver County.

EnergyFollow the PipelineYour Environment Update

How Your License Plate Could Help Rare Species Like Devil Crayfish and Canby’s Mountain Lover

Kara HolsoppleMarch 12, 2021

Those river otter license plates and donations of tax refunds pay for projects that protect some of Pennsylvania's most vulnerable species.

ConservationWild PennsylvaniaWildlifeYour Environment Update

New Investigation Finds Fracking Chemicals in the Bodies of People in Southwestern Pa.

Kara HolsoppleMarch 2, 2021

A two-year investigation sampled the urine of families living near fracking. We talked to the reporter who says she was shocked by the high levels of chemicals found in kids.

EnergyHealthYour Environment Update

The Gas Industry Is Fighting the Phase Out of Fossil Fuels by Targeting Your Gas Stove

Kara HolsoppleFebruary 26, 2021

The natural gas industry wants you to keep using gas stoves as a growing number of cities ban gas in new construction.

Climate ChangeEnergyHealthYour Environment Update

Study Finds Fewer Greenspaces in Historically Redlined Cities

Kara HolsoppleFebruary 19, 2021

Researchers found that urban neighborhoods lack greenspace today because of a specific government policy enacted over 80 years ago.

Climate ChangeEnvironmental JusticeHistoryYour Environment Update