A uranium enrichment plant in Piketon, Ohio used to employ hundreds of workers. Now hundreds more are busy cleaning up its legacy of pollution. But those jobs—critical to the town's economy—could be gone soon too.
New EPA pollution standards have led many coal-fired power plants to close their doors in recent years. But one Pennsylvania power plant is cleaning up its act in order to survive.
Earlier this year, the Pope made a splash with a tough stance on climate change. But Buddhist leaders are also publicly urging world leaders to limit fossil fuel emissions.
In 2002, a fire destroyed the environmental education center in Pittsburgh's Frick Park. But the new center, now under construction, will be a world-class green building.
As world leaders meet in Paris to forge an agreement on climate change, faculty members at Penn State are urging the university to do more to address the issue.