This week, a special show of award-winning and recognized stories. What advocates and residents who live near U.S. Steel plants are saying about the Trump administration’s policies on the pollution drifting into their communities. A nature preserve is dedicated to saving an ancient creature that lives in our region: the hellbender salamander. The Monongahela River has been – and still is – an industrial river. That doesn’t stop people from using it for recreation, like swimming.
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Trump rollbacks keep new clean air rules out of Pittsburgh’s Mon Valley - New air pollution rules for steel plants including the Clairton Coke Works have been paused for at least two years. 
The swimmers who take on the Mon, together - They’ve dubbed themselves the Mon’ster Swimmers, and they brave the waters of the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh together from spring until fall.
Bringing life back to Dunkard Creek, one mussel at a time - The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission is stocking mussels in Dunkard Creek 16 years after pollution annihilated life in the stream.
Hellbenders share spotlight with Abraham Lincoln at new nature preserve - A new preserve in Ohio is named for the salamanders that live there also highlights the history of early American railroads.
