Gene J. Puskar
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AP
The company that owned the railcar that caused the devastating East Palestine train derailment in 2023 won't have to help pay for the $600 million settlement Norfolk Southern agreed to with residents.
Katie Blackley
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90.5 WESA
Reid Frazier
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The Allegheny Front
Katie Blackley
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90.5 WESA
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The county Health Department will add a larvicide that doesn’t affect humans, pets or fish but kills mosquito larvae to local wetlands, storm drains, and catch basins. -
The Homer City Generating Station, a former coal power plant in Indiana County, is being turned into the country’s largest natural gas power plant. -
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has begun its annual Black Fly Suppression Program. Black flies are gnat-sized — much smaller than house flies. They like to swarm human heads and aren’t dismayed or dispersed by swatting. They get in your ears and eyes, and sometimes bite. -
Lead is dangerous to human health in water, soil and air. A new study shows a relationship between lead pollution in air and infant deaths. -
Environmental advocates are warning of potential impact on endangered species, including Pennsylvania's state animal, as protections are bypassed. -
President Donald Trump signed executive orders this week to reinvigorate the coal industry to provide fuel for energy-intensive technology centers. -
The company had planned to recycle 160,000 tons of plastic waste a year and turn about 20,000 tons of it into a new product to be used in the steel-making process. -
About 25 repairs and a dozen people stopped in over the course of the inaugural Repair Cafe Pittsburgh event. Subsequent events are planned at Construction Junction in Point Breeze the first Saturday of each month. -
The amendment would ban net metering, which allows residential and commercial property owners to send their unused solar energy to the electric grid and requires utility companies to reimburse them for it. -
Donald Trump’s EPA administrator Lee Zeldin recently announced the agency would be rolling back more than two dozen environmental rules.
