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A fracking-driven industrial boom renews pollution concerns in Pittsburgh March 21, 2019
Once known as the Steel City, Pittsburgh is shedding its polluted past and embracing a rebirth built on health care, education, and technology. But the region’s surging fracking industry is attracting a $6 billion ethane plant and other petrochemical facilities, raising new pollution fears.
Thyroid cancer study re-ignites debate over Three Mile Island accident’s health effects March 21, 2019
The 2017 Penn State College of Medicine study found a certain type of thyroid cancer to be common to those who were near the nuclear plant during the accident.
Curbside glass recycling may become a thing of the past March 21, 2019
In some western Pennsylvania communities, glass is no longer being collected curbside with cans and paper as part of residential recycling programs. So a statewide environmental group is offering a solution.
Millions of children nationwide exposed to lead in school drinking water March 21, 2019
A new report on lead in school drinking water shows little improvement in most states, calls for stricter guidelines and urgent action.
Where kids fought plastic pollution—and won March 21, 2019
It only took a few months for a young environmental scientist from the Bahamas to create a youth movement to ban single-use plastics in her country.