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WEBSep 18, 2024 · The Allegheny Front August 28, 2024. This week on The Allegheny Front, during the COVID pandemic, a coal-fired power plant that was a way of life for many in one community closed. We traveled there to learn how they memorialized it. As more severe storms cause downed trees and dump water on Pennsylvania, insurance premiums could rise.
The new tax credits for home solar and energy efficiency you …
WEBAug 23, 2024 · It’s been two years since the nation’s historic climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act, was signed.The IRA is the biggest investment in clean energy projects in U.S. history, and many Americans don’t know about it even though some of its programs could directly benefit consumers, like the Residential Clean Energy Tax Credit.
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 …
Sixty Years Ago, Smog Killed 20 People in a Pennsylvania Town.
WEBApr 14, 2017 · Councilman Don Pavelko is proud of his town’s legacy. Inside the museum, he shows a young visitor an old oxygen tank — the same tank a firefighter carried throughout the dark streets of Donora to help citizens survive the smog that put pollution control on the map.
Kayak tour allows Pittsburghers to transform trash into art
WEBAug 9, 2024 · As a mixed-media artist, she designed a kayak tour on the Allegheny River this summer where participants created sculptural art using trash and natural materials found on the river’s shoreline. A full-time K-12 art teacher, Cervone McElwain is also part of the Pittsburgh Creative Corps with Shiftworks Community + Public Arts, the nonprofit ...
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 ...
$90M federal grant awarded for the largest solar project in …
WEBReid Frazier March 28, 2024. The Department of Energy is awarding $90 million to a company that has promised to build what would be the largest solar project in the state on a former coal mine in central Pennsylvania. The 402-megawatt solar farm would be the largest in the state. The award goes to Delaware-based Mineral Basin Solar LLC, a ...
A Lasting Legacy: DuPont, C8 Contamination and the Community …
WEBJan 9, 2020 · A collective decision was made to use the money won in the class-action suit to conduct an epidemiological study in which nearly 70,000 of the 80,000 plaintiffs stopped into one of six clinics set up throughout the community, provided their medical histories and offered their blood. They were each paid $400.
Wild Pennsylvania, a series exploring conservation - The Allegheny …
WEBDams and culverts make it difficult for fish to navigate. Climate change and invasive species threaten our native species. Our reporters are traveling throughout the region to talk to the scientists, conservation groups and everyday people working to save wildlife and habitats in Pennsylvania. Stay tuned. Funding for this series comes from the ...
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 ...