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The city of Milwaukee on the western coast of Lake Michigan uses the lake for its drinking water. But just 17 miles to the west, the city of Waukesha is prohibited from using Great Lakes water unless it gets permission from the eight Great Lakes states. Photo: Ron Reiring via Flickr

City’s Bid to Pump Great Lakes Water Could Be a Precedent Setter

Rebecca Williams·January 15, 2016

Episode for January 15, 2016

The Allegheny Front·January 15, 2016

The wild elk herd in Elk County, Pennsylvania drew over 300,000 visitors last year. Photo: John Hast / Conservation Fund

Your Environment Update for January 13, 2016

The Allegheny Front·January 13, 2016

South view of a pipeline swath forming the eastern boundary of the Detweiler Run Natural Area, Centre County–Huntingdon County line, within Rothrock State Forest. Photo: Nicholas A. Tonelli via Flickr

Episode for January 8, 2016

The Allegheny Front·January 8, 2016

The Enrico Fermi Nuclear Power Plant, on Lake Erie near Detroit, Michigan. Photo: James Marvin Phelps via Flickr

Does Nuclear Power Have a Future in the U.S.?

Kara Holsopple·January 8, 2016

An aerial view of a natural gas well pad

What’s in Pennsylvania’s New Oil and Gas Regulations

Reid Frazier·January 8, 2016

Meet the trash heap in the alleyway behind Pittsburgher Meda Rago's house. Rago regularly volunteers with her neighborhood's clean-up crew, but it doesn't seem to make a dent in the litter problem. Photo: Lou Blouin

The Psychology of Littering

Lou Blouin·January 8, 2016

The growing popularity of kitchen short-cuts like pre-sliced vegetables and bagged spinach mean greater energy inputs. Photo: Leigh Paterson / Inside Energy

Our Food Processed Future: The Rising Energy Costs Of Convenience

Leigh Paterson·January 8, 2016

Warning signs line the Santa Susana Mountain range near Southern California Gas Company's fenced-off Aliso Canyon facility. A well at the site has been leaking methane since October. Photo: Scott L via Flickr

Leaking Gas Well in California is a Climate ‘Disaster’

Kara Holsopple·January 8, 2016

Norm and Betty Jo Anderson have lived in Piketon, Ohio since the mid-1950s, when Norm started working at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant. Photo: Lewis Wallace / WYSO

In Southern Ohio, a Nuclear Town Faces a Hazy Future

Lewis Wallace·January 8, 2016

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