Environmental groups are criticizing Nippon Steel’s recent investments in its Pittsburgh-area U.S. Steel mills for continuing the company’s reliance on coal to produce steel. As a result, they say, ...

A new Trump administration grant program designed to increase the amount of electricity the country gets from coal could have impacts in Pennsylvania, the country’s third-largest coal producer. “We ...

Ken Fellows has been fishing off and on all his life. Last year, he decided to try his hand at turtles. He caught one near his favorite fishing hole along Montour Run, west of Downtown Pittsburgh “I ...

In the same week that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would give Pennsylvania more than $39 million to address PFAS contamination in drinking water, the agency also said it ...

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 ...

Carol Parenzan has had a long career in water. She’s an environmental engineer and an author, including children’s books. She founded the Middle Susquehanna Riverkeeper Association and served as its ...

Pasa Sustainable Agriculture has announced the reinstatement of a $59 million contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Soon after President Trump took office last year, the federal government ...

Pittsburgh’s Public Source is an independent nonprofit newsroom serving the Pittsburgh region. Sign up for Public Source’s free newsletters. At 10:47 a.m., U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works outside ...

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 ...

The 2026 Pennsylvania River of the Year is the Conestoga River, in the southeastern part of the state. Its headwaters are in Berks County, and the river flows more than 61 miles, meeting the ...

Driven by the growth of data centers for artificial intelligence,, and electricity prices are surging. In Pennsylvania, some consumers are seeing double-digit price hikes. At the same time, President ...

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 ...