When Lucy Hurowitz was finishing her first year of high school, she was having anxiety about climate change and the state of the environment. “You just feel so helpless in the face of these really big ...

Residents who live near the Edgar Thomson Plant in Braddock expressed their frustration at a U.S. Steel project to build a hot strip mill at the plant. A public environmental justice meeting over the ...

This story comes from WVIA News. Archbald Borough Council unanimously rejected a zoning request to construct the 14-building Wildcat Ridge Data Center Campus on 578 acres in the borough. About 200 ...

Air permit meeting for new hot strip mill in Braddock gets heated ...

Data centers compete with regular customers for energy, but the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has rejected a proposal that would have shielded them. PJM is the largest grid operator in the ...

A few dozen residents called on Allegheny County to deny a building plan for a proposed data center outside Pittsburgh at a hearing Wednesday night. The project in Springdale needs county approval on ...

FERC denied PJM’s proposal of temporarily shutting off power ⁠to data centers to avoid blackouts in times of high energy demand.

The study is looking to identify potential locations in Pennsylvania for new generating facilities as electricity demand grows.

Pennsylvania is trying to speed up the plugging process, and some Pittsburgh high school students are stepping in to help.

Health department officials said their modeling showed the project wouldn’t cause Allegheny County to exceed federal air pollution limits.

One resident said that the community dealt with air pollution and dust from the former coal-fired power plant on the site. “Don't you think we've suffered enough? Give us a break.” ...

Kathy Knauer has been the executive producer for The Allegheny Front since 1995. She is responsible for overseeing the news operations, developing collaborations with other news organizations and ...