A truck full of walleye arrived at the Pleasant Mount State Fish Hatchery before noon on a cold April Friday. The gold and olive fish were there to help produce another generation for anglers to catch across Pennsylvania. The season for the freshwater fish began Saturday, May 4.
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The efforts include giving more money to public transit, mandating prevailing wages for clean energy projects, and updating efficiency standards for appliances.
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Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry charged Shell Pipeline Friday with chronically underreporting spills of industrial waste during construction of a pipeline feeding the company’s Beaver County ethane cracker.
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SNAP benefits, crop insurance, and conservation programs are funded through the Farm Bill, but the 2024 reauthorization is delayed in Congress.
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A Washington high school got $65,000 in energy transition grants to upgrade its fish hatchery program to one that rivals commercial operations.
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Lewis County Transit got a $1.8 million grant from the coal transition fund to install a micro-sized hydrogen electrolyzer, which will use electricity to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen.
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The $80,000 grant from the community transition fund in Centralia, Wa. helped replace the Juice Box Public House's roof and failing heating system.
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Under pressure from climate activists to close, the Centralia, Wa. plant agreed to a deadline and put millions in a transition fund. StateImpact Pennsylvania spent several days there to explore how time and money has affected preparations for what lies ahead.
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The final rule, announced by Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su, cuts in half the permissible exposure limit for crystalline silica for an 8-hour shift.
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The deal has raised concerns about what the sale could mean for unionized workers, supply chains and U.S. national security, and is opposed by President Joe Biden.
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An extraordinarily wet start to the month of April has pushed what was already a very damp 2024 in Pittsburgh into all-time record territory.