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Pittsburgh startup aims to make food waste recycling easy and affordable

Kyra McCague·September 12, 2025

Ecotone Renewables’ ZEUS units break down food waste through anaerobic digestion, turning it into a liquid fertilizer and renewable energy.

Climate Change Food and Agriculture Your Environment Update

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It’s easy to compost. Just drop off your food waste at a Pittsburgh farmers market

Isabel Kim·September 12, 2025

Pittsburgh offers a composting drop-off for food waste at its four Citiparks farmers markets. Bring veggie scraps, but no meat or dairy.

Climate Change Food and Agriculture Your Environment Update

Coke plant’s closure near Pittsburgh led to immediate health benefits, study finds

Reid Frazier·September 5, 2025

ER visits for pediatric asthma and cardiovascular disease plummeted after the Shenango coke plant on Neville Island closed in 2016.

Environmental Justice Health Pollution Your Environment Update

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Online tool helps Beaver County residents evaluate air quality

Kara Holsopple·August 28, 2025

The Eyes on Air webpage publishes real-time pollution data from five new air monitors placed throughout Beaver County.

Health Pollution Your Environment Update

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A worker’s story of the deadly explosion at the Clairton coke plant

Julie Grant·August 13, 2025

A worker who lived through the explosion and rescue efforts at the U.S. Steel plant in Clairton, near Pittsburgh, tells his story.

Energy Pollution U.S. Steel Explosion Your Environment Update

Why Canadian wildfire smoke is lingering (and what you can do about it)

Kara Holsopple·August 8, 2025

A climate scientist and mom explains why the smoke is sticking around and who should stay indoors.

Climate Change Health Pollution Your Environment Update

You can borrow an induction cooktop at the local library

Isabel Kim·August 8, 2025

Millvale Tool Library recently acquired portable induction cooktops, available for the community to borrow for free. These energy-efficient appliances are a cleaner, climate-friendly alternative to gas stoves and can help improve indoor air quality.

Energy Health Pollution Your Environment Update

What’s behind higher electricity prices? The regional grid explained.

Kara Holsopple·August 4, 2025

An energy expert weighs in on the troubles and opportunities at the regional grid operator.

Economy Energy Technology Your Environment Update

What you need to know about EPA’s effort to dump legal underpinning of climate rules

Julie Grant·August 1, 2025

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced that the agency would rescind the 2009 finding that says greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare.

Climate Change Health Trump 2.0 Your Environment Update

Penn State professor explains how climate change affects weather

Kyra McCague·July 23, 2025

The recent heat wave in Pittsburgh and severe floods in Texas are just two examples of recent weather events intensified by climate change.

Climate Change Your Environment Update

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