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Oct 23, 2024 · After the Norfolk Southern train derailed along the Pennsylvania-Ohio border last year, releasing 1.1 million pounds of vinyl chloride and other chemicals into the environment, …

Jan 3, 2025 · Our favorite stories from 2024. Potato chips are getting more expensive--is climate change part of the reason? A new book out this year looks at radioactivity in the oil and gas …

Oct 17, 2024 · That has happened in Pennsylvania. It happened over the issue of water quality in the late 1960s and early 1970s. I think right now the big abstract idea of global warming has …

Sep 4, 2024 · Reid R. Frazier covers energy for The Allegheny Front. His work has taken him as far away as Texas and Louisiana to report on the petrochemical industry and as close to home …

A coal mine along the Pennsylvania – West Virginia border is closing. Around 180 miners at the Monongalia County Coal Mine in Greene County received notice of permanent layoff from the …

Mar 28, 2024 · “Projects such as this obviously attract additional future investment from other companies that want to take advantage of it,” he said. About $20 million of the project will go …

Jan 9, 2020 · A collective decision was made to use the money won in the class-action suit to conduct an epidemiological study in which nearly 70,000 of the 80,000 plaintiffs stopped into …

Nov 13, 2024 · This story is part of our series, Wild Pennsylvania. Check out all of the other stories in the series here. There are nearly 3,400 dams in Pennsylvania regulated by the state. …

Feb 12, 2020 · In 1956, plans for the Kinzua Dam — which for the previous two decades had been vague and nebulous — began to move forward. Twenty years earlier, in the infamous St. …