Your Environment Update Archives

Two men using poles with grabbers on the ends pick up trash in the brush near the beach

Tiny plastic pieces top the list of trash on Great Lakes beaches

Julie Grant·April 17, 2024

The nonprofit Alliance for the Great Lakes analyzed 20 years of data from volunteer beach cleanups.

Pollution Water Your Environment Update

Why conservationists are pushing to get the new Farm Bill reauthorized

Kara Holsopple·April 12, 2024

The legislation that sets agricultural policy, including conservation programs, is being held up in Congress.

Climate Change Conservation Food and Agriculture News Wild Pennsylvania Your Environment Update

A Tick Researcher’s Tips for Staying Safe Outdoors

Kara Holsopple·April 12, 2024

One tip: walk in the center of the trail. Ticks like to attach themselves to long grasses. No need to use DEET.

Health Recreation Your Environment Update

A young girl in a yellow sweatshirt holds a museum specimen of a great horned owl in the pal of her hand.

A school day built around birds gives students many ways into their world

Kara Holsopple·April 5, 2024

The Campus Laboratory School at Carlow University taught students about birds through art, music, poetry, machine learning and even sports.

Conservation Wild Pennsylvania Wildlife Your Environment Update

A woman stands in front of a house holding a sign that reads, "Stop SOBE."

Paused Ohio chemical recycling plant puts spotlight on Appalachia as ‘prime target’ for the controversial practice

Kristina Marusic·March 27, 2024

Chemical recycling uses heat, chemicals or both to break down plastic waste into component parts for reuse as plastic feedstocks or as fuel.

Environmental Justice Health Pollution Your Environment Update

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Wondering when to plant? There’s a map for that

Kara Holsopple·March 15, 2024

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map was updated last fall to give gardeners and growers more accurate information about what to plant and when.

Food and Agriculture Your Environment Update

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Hollowed out: How EQT’s expansion in West Virginia set 4 families reeling, while regulators trusted the company to answer their complaints

PublicSource·March 5, 2024

Pittsburgh gas giant EQT pledges to tackle climate change and flexes political muscle. Communities in its frack path face stark realities.

Energy Health Your Environment Update

What you need to know about soot, U.S. Steel and Pittsburgh’s air

Reid Frazier·February 16, 2024

How the latest news about a new soot standard, a settlement with U.S. Steel and EPA's rejection of the company's air permit could impact Pittsburgh's air.

Health Pollution Your Environment Update

A young woman in a black sriped sweater stands in front of a river in a park.

A Pennsylvania resident impacted by the Norfolk Southern derailment pushes for answers

Kara Holsopple·February 1, 2024

Hilary Flint of Enon Valley says she's can't live in her home full-time because of chemical contamination. She turned her situation into action.

East Palestine Health One Year Later Pollution Your Environment Update

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Why a natural gas storage climate ‘disaster’ that happened in Cambria County could happen again

Floodlight·January 30, 2024

A year after a major methane leak from an underground storage reservoir in western Pennsylvania, a new study identifies potentially thousands of similarly risky wells across the U.S.

Climate Change Energy Your Environment Update

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EPA terminates $15M climate justice grant to Pittsburgh and Philly non-profits

Map shows what’s possible with federal clean energy investment in Pa.

Trump’s 2-year reprieve gives coal plants ‘a free pass to pollute’

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