This story comes from WVIA News. For most of the country, weekly emergency visits for tick bites are at the highest rates for this time of year since 2017, according to the CDC. That’s also true for ...

A new Ken Burns documentary, Henry David Thoreau, directed by Erik Ewers and Christopher Loren Ewers, examines Thoreau not just through the lens of American history, but also asks what his work means ...

[The emails] showed me, for example, that in April, 2025, months before Amazon announced its $20 billion investment, the Shapiro office offered Amazon “exclusive early access” to a permitting program ...

Scientists test aquatic organisms for ‘forever chemicals’ in Montour Run near Pittsburgh International Airport ...

A new rule finalized by the EPA last month will require U.S. Steel and other companies around the country to set up fenceline monitoring for air pollution around its coke plants.The rule means that ...

The closure of a Pittsburgh area coke plant resulted in dramatic decreases in local air pollution and fewer emergency room visits, a new study has found. The Shenango Coke Works on Neville Island ...

The U.S. Steel plant in Clairton, Pa., where an explosion killed two workers and injured 10 on Monday, has a history of maintenance issues, explosions and environmental violations. The Clairton Coke ...

Stacey Magda stands on the side of a country road in Westmoreland County, near the top of a ridge. Trucks whiz by. There’s an old cemetery a few steps away. “This is coal country. One of Henry Clay ...

This story is the fifth in a series examining the aftermath of the Feb. 3, 2023, Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, funded in part by the Fund for Investigative Journalism.

This story comes from our partner, 90.5 WESA. Massive computing centers proposed across Pennsylvania could be a huge draw on the power grid, causing worries that electric bills will rise for the rest ...

As home gardeners are cleaning up their spring flower beds and vegetable patches, they might notice signs of a relatively new invasive species that’s made its way across Pennsylvania. Though Asian ...

The Trump administration has reversed course again on a new air pollution rule for coke ovens. The White House is granting two-year waivers to coke oven plants for the rule issued under the Biden ...