StateImpact Archives

Biden’s Pick for Energy Secretary Expected to Bring Together Clean Energy, Job Creation

Anne Danahy·December 23, 2020

Environmental groups are reacting positively to former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm's nomination, while the energy industry is more cautious.

Climate Change Economy Politics

Groups Sue EPA over Coal Plant Air Pollution in Indiana County

Reid Frazier·December 23, 2020

The lawsuit is challenging a plan to allow spikes of sulfur dioxide at two power plants. Even at low levels, SO2 can affect asthmatics in as little as two minutes.

Energy Health Pollution

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State Gives $2.5 Million to Pitt to Study Health Impacts of Fracking

Rachel McDevitt·December 23, 2020

Pitt Public Health will conduct two studies, including a possible relationship to childhood cancers in southwestern Pa.

Health Pollution

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Study: Pa. Heart Failure Patients Near Fracking More Likely to be Hospitalized

Reid Frazier·December 21, 2020

A new study found heart failure patients living near fracking operations were more likely to be hospitalized than those farther away.

Energy Health

Fears for Safety and Climate Surround LNG Export Terminal Planned on the Delaware River

Susan Phillips·December 11, 2020

What scares people the most is transporting flammable LNG 200 miles along the I-95 corridor through densely populated areas.

Climate Change Energy Health

DEP Deals Blow to Fracking Plan at U.S. Steel Mill Near Pittsburgh

Reid Frazier·December 11, 2020

The agency says it will suspend reviewing environmental permits for the controversial well after it lost its local zoning permit.

Energy

EPA Declines to Strengthen Soot Standard

Reid Frazier·December 8, 2020

The agency went against recommendations from its own scientists that a stronger standard could save lives. Pa. is one of four states that don't meet the current standard.

Health Pollution

Federal Agency Approves Transfer of TMI-2 for Decommissioning

Rachel McDevitt·December 4, 2020

The partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island reactor is still the country’s most serious accident at a nuclear power plant.

Energy

Can Biden’s Climate Plan Spark Cooperation in Pennsylvania?

Rachel McDevitt·December 4, 2020

Some see possible common ground in jobs and infrastructure projects like charging stations for electric cars.

Climate Change Energy Politics

Families and Advocates Criticize Pa.’s Fracking Health Studies

Reid Frazier·December 3, 2020

Families say they're being cut out of the process of designing studies about whether fracking had anything to do with childhood cancers in SW Pa.

Energy Health

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Trump on Earth

Solar savings for Clairton, other Pa. schools at risk from proposed federal cuts

Pa. solar installers say GOP’s U.S. House tax bill is a ‘disaster’ for business

Allegheny National Forest will increase logging by millions of board feet this year

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