Episode for December 13, 2024 - The Allegheny Front
Dec 13, 2024 · Companies in Sweden are beginning to make steel without fossil fuels. Can it work in the US, which still relies on coal? A holiday shopping guide aims to make it easier to choose refurbished electronics to fulfill your gift list, It's December and that means migrant crows set up winter roosts in cities. Also, PennEnergy will pay a $2 …
Common terns successfully breed at Presque Isle State Park for the ...
Dec 5, 2024 · This story is part of our series, Wild Pennsylvania. Check out all of the other stories in the series here. Something happened this summer at Presque Isle State Park on Lake Erie that hasn’t happened in over 60 years: two young common terns, endangered in Pennsylvania, fledged from their nest.. The juvenile terns (Sterna hirundo), which look like small seagulls, flew from their protected ...
New plan aims to improve river access in Allegheny County
Nov 14, 2024 · This story is part of our series, Wild Pennsylvania. Check out all of the other stories in the series here. The non-profit Friends of the Riverfront released a new management plan for recreation in Allegheny County’s three rivers. For decades, the group has focused on developing 33 miles of riverfront trails, known as the Three Rivers Heritage Trail.
What Pennsylvania voters say about the environment
Nov 8, 2024 · By Kathy Knauer, Julie Grant, Reid Frazier and Kara Holsopple of The Allegheny Front and Sydney Roach, Rivka Wolin and Erell Williams of WPSU. On Election Day, we talked with voters in several Pennsylvania counties about the environment and climate change – what they think about them and how those issues might have affected their ballot choices.
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Episode for November 15, 2024 - The Allegheny Front
Nov 15, 2024 · PECO to purchase energy from what will be the largest utility-based solar procurement in Pa.-The southeast Pa.utility will pay the solar provider for the electricity and for providing the capacity — meaning the provider gets paid to guarantee 25 MW of solar will be available.New plan aims to improve river access in Allegheny County-Friends of the Riverfront released a 10-year management plan ...
New studies shed light on the contamination and response to East ...
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, the National Science Foundation responded quickly. The independent, federal agency funded university-based research, including a study by Andrew Whelton, Professor of Civil, Environmental and Ecological Engineering at ...
Pittsburgh urban farmers get a nearly $900K boost from USDA
Oct 16, 2024 · By Alayna Hutchinson | 90.5 WESA. Pittsburgh is one of 10 U.S. cities to receive part of a $9 million federal investment in urban agriculture. The Allegheny County Conservation District (ACCD), an urban conservation organization, was awarded $894,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency to support urban farming in the county through outreach, education and technical ...
Pennsylvania to receive $43 million in federal funds to remove lead ...
Oct 17, 2024 · Homes built before the 1978 national ban can have lead paint on the interior and exterior surfaces. Kids can be exposed by inhaling lead dust when paint chips are disturbed, eating paint chips or by touching their mouths after coming in contact with lead.
New book looks at winners and losers in Pennsylvania …
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 gotten so politicized that it’s difficult to get political consensus around an issue that is simply about global warming, as existential as that threat is, the politics of it just aren’t there.