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

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, ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Meta says it has reached a deal to purchase power from the Beaver Valley nuclear plant in western Pennsylvania and two others in Ohio, as part of its efforts to power its artificial intelligence ...