A federal appeals court ruling late last month upheld a key Biden administration air quality standard for fine particulate matter, or soot. The new rule, finalized in 2024, means that Pittsburgh and ...

As our nation celebrates its founding, we’re looking at where the environment and history meet. This summer 70 paddlers in kayaks and canoes took a trip down the Delaware River, including the spot ...

“Cradle of Conservation” examines how people have interacted with the environment from pre-colonial days to now.

A federal appeals court upheld a Biden-era air quality standard for soot. Allegheny County and other areas in PA will be out of compliance with the new standard.

“Cradle of Conservation” examines how people have interacted with the environment from pre-colonial days to now.

This story comes from WVIA News. This story was first published March 22, 2024. Update: Earth Conservancy gifted Industrial Archives & Library the coal company documents on March 13. The historic ...

This story was first published October 17, 2024. A new book looks at how Pennsylvanians have interacted with the environment from pre-colonial days to now. Its author is Allen Dieterich-Ward, graduate ...

Searching the shores of Lake Erie for beach glass is a favorite pastime. Here are the best beaches at Presque Isle to find it and some tips from a pro.

No one knows exactly when the roof of Control Room # 2 at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works started to leak. But leak it did, probably for “years,” in the words of one investigator hired by the ...

Hannah Hohman and Koa Reitz stood on an old bridge on a sunny afternoon, looking down at the confluence of two streams. Hohman glanced back and forth between the iced ...

On a Saturday morning in March, a demolition crew took down the smokestacks at the Homer City Generating Station. The plant – first commissioned in 1969 – once employed hundreds of workers. In an ...

This is part of a series tracking waste from the fracking industry. Off a back road in the hilly country south of Pittsburgh, a tributary to the Monongahela River runs through overgrown vegetation and ...