This week, a special show of award-winning and recognized stories. What advocates and residents who live near U.S. Steel plants are saying about the Trump administration's policies on the pollution ...

Pollution from the Pittsburgh airport has found its way into a nearby stream. Scientists are looking into how PFAS forever chemicals got there and what happens next. The U.S. Environmental Protection ...

Summer temperatures are already soaring in some parts of the world. The UK and Europe experienced a record-breaking heatwave in May. As extreme weather events become more common with climate change, ...

Behind the counter, it can look like a bartender holding citrus peels over a trash can for an extra second, wondering whether they still have one more use. It can mean hauling compost buckets through ...

A new study shows rising temperatures around the world are associated with a higher risk of kidney disorders.

For decades, the airport used PFAS-containing firefighting foam. Now, the stream that captures the airport’s runoff has the "forever chemicals." ...

This story was first published on August 22, 2025. NOTE: Since this story was first published, the Trump administration decided against writing their own rule for steel industry emissions. Instead, it ...

This story was first published September 12, 2025. Americans discard millions of tons of food every year, not only wasting the resources it took to produce and transport that food but also ...

A new report finds Pennsylvania’s use of solar energy is on the rise, but the state still falls behind most of the country in adding more renewable energy on the grid. The environmental group ...

The Trump administration is drastically cutting the budget, and reorganizing the U.S. Forest Service, moving its headquarters and research facilities to western states. In Pennsylvania, four research ...

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 ...