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Teens Earn and Learn While Educating Their Neighbors About Lead Exposure

Kara HolsoppleAugust 17, 2017

For some teenagers in Pittsburgh, a summer job means helping their community solve its problems with lead.

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Making Air Pollution Fun? Try Picking This Nose.

Andy KubisAugust 11, 2017

GASP - The Group Against Smog and Pollution - has a new exhibit to make learning about air pollution and its impacts a little more fun. Starting with a giant nose you can pick.

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Turning Trash into Art to Save Urban Wildlife

Kara HolsoppleJuly 28, 2017

Pittsburgh group Scrap the Trap commissioned street artist Bordalo II to create this raccoon piece, made from trash, to draw attention to their cause: more humane treatment of urban wildlife.

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Your Environment Update for July 13, 2017

The Allegheny FrontJuly 7, 2017

The green slime of toxic algae blooms is likely to make a reappearance on Lake Erie this summer. Researchers want a better way to know if it’s making people sick.

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Your Environment Update for Thursday, July 6, 2017

The Allegheny FrontJuly 6, 2017

In 1948, twenty people died when thick smog settled over the small town of Donora, just south of Pittsburgh. Is the city prepared if it happens again?

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With Environmental Justice For All?

Julie GrantJune 23, 2017

The EPA’s Environmental Justice office is meant to defend communities that face a disproportionate share of the effects of pollution. But the office’s funding could be cut entirely in President Trump’s 2018 budget proposal.

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It’s Not Paris or Pittsburgh. It’s the Planet.

Reid FrazierJune 9, 2017

President Trump fulfilled one of his biggest campaign promises in taking the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord. But could his decision lead to more climate action, not less?

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Acosta Deep Coal Mine in Somerset County

Trump Touts a New PA Mine. But is Coal Actually Rebounding?

Reid FrazierJune 8, 2017

By all accounts, the coal industry is in a steep decline. Mines have been shutting down for about a decade. So why is one in Somerset County about to open?

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CMU Scientists Help Clairton Residents Find Out What’s In Their Air

Kara HolsoppleJune 2, 2017

A research team at Carnegie Mellon is one year into a three-year project to help people in the Pittsburgh region learn more about pollutants they’re exposed to through the air. It’s funded through the EPA’s Air Pollution Monitoring for Communities program, and it was one of only six projects funded throughout the country.

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Life Smells Better After Shenango

Julie GrantJune 1, 2017

Last year the Shenango Coke Works closed. This spring some of the people who fought it are celebrating by telling their stories of living downwind from one of the region's biggest and most visible polluters.

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Energy

Energy Secretary visits western Pa. steel plant to tout new energy efficiency rule and union jobs

Offshore wind, a potential clean energy source for the East Coast, slowly takes shape

Attorney General files criminal charges against Shell on whistleblower reports over pipeline spills

Climate

Energy Secretary visits western Pa. steel plant to tout new energy efficiency rule and union jobs

Offshore wind, a potential clean energy source for the East Coast, slowly takes shape

Teens network and strategize around climate action

Health

Federal Mine Safety Regulators Finally Focus on Silica Dust – With Thousands Of Miners Sick And Dying

A Tick Researcher’s Tips for Staying Safe Outdoors

EPA announces first federal restrictions on toxic ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water

Your Environment Update

Teens Earn and Learn While Educating Their Neighbors About Lead Exposure

Making Air Pollution Fun? Try Picking This Nose.

Turning Trash into Art to Save Urban Wildlife

Your Environment Update for July 13, 2017

Your Environment Update for Thursday, July 6, 2017

With Environmental Justice For All?

It’s Not Paris or Pittsburgh. It’s the Planet.

Trump Touts a New PA Mine. But is Coal Actually Rebounding?

CMU Scientists Help Clairton Residents Find Out What’s In Their Air

Life Smells Better After Shenango