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WEBThe Allegheny Front September 27, 2024. A judge signed off on a 600 million dollar settlement between Norfolk Southern and people who live near the East Palestine train derailment. But many are unhappy with the outcome. A new study looks at the influence of oil and gas industry donations on university research.
The Complicated History of the Kinzua Dam and How It Changed …
WEBFeb 12, 2020 · In 1956, plans for the Kinzua Dam — which for the previous two decades had been vague and nebulous — began to move forward. Twenty years earlier, in the infamous St. Patrick’s Day Flood, the entire Ohio River Basin had …
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About Us - The Allegheny Front
WEBThe Allegheny Front is an award-winning public radio program covering environmental issues in Western Pennsylvania, airing on WESA in Pittsburgh and on stations throughout the region. The Allegheny Front began in 1991 on WYEP 91.3 FM as a new urban environmental consciousness was strengthening in Pittsburgh. As …
The Lewis and Clark Expedition Began in Pittsburgh. And Soon the ...
WEBMay 18, 2018 · JM: As we stand up here, looking to the east you can see the sloping roof of the David Lawrence Convention Center, which is on the site of the 5th fort that was in downtown Pittsburgh, Fort Fayette. And that is where we believe that the keel boat was commissioned, built and launched [on] August 31st, 1803. And then as the Allegheny River connects with the Monongahela River, and the Ohio River ...
The Psychology of Littering - The Allegheny Front
WEBJan 8, 2016 · The Psychology of Littering. Littering continues to be a big environmental problem in cities. And one Pittsburgher from the city’s North Side neighborhood is taking the problem personally. Meda Rago regularly picks up trash to keep her street clean. And she really isn’t kidding when she says she’s found some pretty weird things chucked ...
Should the federal government support a massive recycling plant …
WEBSep 23, 2024 · A company planning to build a huge plastics recycling facility in Erie, Pennsylvania, got a big boost this summer when the U.S. Department of Energy announced a conditional loan guarantee for the project of $182.6 million.. The facility would recycle some plastics for reuse and send other types to a steel plant in Indiana for use in the steelmaking process.
Environmental Justice Archives - The Allegheny Front
WEBNeighborhoods in Pa. cities can get up to 13 degrees hotter due to urban environment. StateImpact Pennsylvania July 17, 2024. The heat is absorbed and released by buildings, roads and pavement. It's worse in neighborhoods with low incomes and higher populations of people of color. Climate Change Environmental Justice.
Our Three Rivers - The Allegheny Front
WEBOur Three Rivers. Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers define its geography and help shape its identity. Yet defining Pittsburghers own relationships to the Monongahela, Allegheny and Ohio Rivers is an ever-shifting process. For over a century, the Three Rivers helped fuel Pittsburgh’s boom, creating a culture where residents saw their rivers as ...
We Mapped the Toxic Wastewater Discharges Along the Ohio …
WEBJan 15, 2020 · Mercury from the Eagle Natrium facility have made two species of local fish too poisonous to eat in significant quantities, according to the Ohio River Fish Consumption Advisories.. In August 2019, the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition and the Sierra Club filed a lawsuit against the company.The complaint states that Eagle Natrium is the “only remaining chlor-alkali plant in the United ...