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Largest solar project in Pa. to be built on former coal mine with $90M federal grant

Reid Frazier·March 28, 2024

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

A man sits at a dining room table with a large document showing property lots

Storing CO2 underground in western Pa. and neighboring states raises questions

Julie Grant·March 26, 2024

Rolls of maps with hand written tags hanging over shelves.

Preserving Pennsylvania’s coal history to look to the future

Kat Bolus·March 22, 2024

Rolls of maps with hand written tags hanging over shelves.

Episode for March 22, 2024

The Allegheny Front·March 22, 2024

A peregrine falcon flies high above the city.

Why I’m addicted to bird nestcams (and you should be too)

Kate St. John·March 22, 2024

The site of a former china factory, Jackson Ceramix, in Clearfield and Jefferson counties. Image: EPA

EPA seeks entry to abandoned land near Dubois contaminated with lead, arsenic, other pollutants

Reid Frazier·March 21, 2024

A sign welcoms visitors to East Palestine, Ohio in red lettering.

Private well sampling in East Palestine gets $2 million boost from federal funding

Abigail Bottar·March 21, 2024

A man holds a plastic bag as he talks in a microphone outside a buidling

Survey finds Pittsburgh’s plastic bag ban is working, but room for improvement

Kiley Koscinski·March 20, 2024

A massive tower of flames with black smoke as seen from afar

Taxpayers subsidize polluting plastics plants like Shell’s ethane cracker, report finds

Reid Frazier·March 19, 2024

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