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The TransAlta Centralia Generation station pictured on March 6, 2024. (Jeremy Long - WITF)
April 10, 2024 | 12:38 PM

Photos: StateImpact Pennsylvania visits Centralia, Wash.

By Jeremy Long
U.S. Steel's Clairton Plant, the largest coke works in North America, in Clairton, Pa.
February 28, 2024 | 9:58 AM

Allegheny County fines U.S. Steel nearly $2 million for air quality violations

By Betul Tuncer/WESA
Local, county and state officials gather to cut the ribbon of a newly renovated 1970’s duplex in State College on Nov. 3, 2023.
November 6, 2023 | 12:39 PM

Unique duplex retrofit in State College promotes sustainability and affordability

By Sydney Roach/WPSU
DEPEW, OK - FEBRUARY 18: John Carter looks at old oil field equipment covered by vegetation near his home February 18, 2016 in Depew, Oklahoma. Thousands of abandoned oil wells were never properly mapped and many of the original drilling companies no longer exist. The state is now the earthquake capital of the world and the quakes are believed to be caused by oil field waste water injections into the earth. In 1993, the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board began to restore abandoned oil well sites. Since the program's inception more than $90 million has been spent to restore more than 14,500 abandoned well sites. Officials report the old wells have leaked oil, natural gas and brine into the soil.
June 6, 2023 | 12:07 PM

Abandoned oil and gas wells in Pennsylvania emit carcinogens and other harmful pollutants, groundbreaking study shows

The release of cancer-causing benzene and other toxic gases from sites in Pennsylvania raises concerns about millions of other abandoned wells across the U.S.
By Liza Gross/
Workers haul away the carcass of a dead whale on the beach in Seaside Park N.J. on March 2, 2023. On May 3, 2023, a group of Republican New Jersey lawmakers and opponents of offshore wind called for a 30 to 60-day moratorium on offshore wind site preparation work while a spate of whale deaths on the US East Coast is examined.
May 19, 2023 | 11:02 AM

New Jersey official says recent spate of whale deaths is linked to climate change

By Tennyson Donyea/ WHYY
Stephanie Wein, a Clean Water & Conservation Advocate with Penn Environment, talked about green legislation that Pa. residents can support like the Regional GreenhouseGas Initiative, at a press press conference calling out Pa.’s top polluters at City Hall in Philadelphia on May 9, 2023. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
May 11, 2023 | 7:28 AM

Power plants among the largest industrial climate polluters in Pennsylvania

In a new report, environmental advocates crunched EPA data to call out Pennsylvania’s “dirty dozen.”
By Sophia Schmidt/ WHYY
Community members attend a meeting at East Palestine High School on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023. Norfolk Southern did not attend the meeting, citing concerns of a growing physical threat to employees. Now, residents are turning to lawyers to get answers they say they can't get from the company.
February 23, 2023 | 12:01 PM

East Palestine residents seek legal advice after train derailment

By Abigail Bottar and Taylor Wizner/ Ideastream Public Media
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, right, prepares to meet with reporters after touring the Norfolk and Southern train derailment site in East Palestine, Ohio, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023.
February 17, 2023 | 6:32 PM

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine calls on Congress to look at rail safety following East Palestine derailment

By Abigail Bottar/ Ideastream Public Media
In this Aug. 1, 2018 photo, a water tower stands above a residential neighborhood in Horsham, Pa. In Horsham and surrounding towns in eastern Pennsylvania, and at other sites around the United States, the foams once used routinely in firefighting training at military bases contained per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. EPA testing between 2013 and 2015 found significant amounts of PFAS in public water supplies in 33 U.S. states.
June 16, 2022 | 4:33 PM

1 in 3 Pennsylvania drinking water systems exceed new EPA limits for ‘forever chemicals’

The federal government warned that the potential health impacts of a group of chemicals known as PFAS are much more pervasive than previously acknowledged

By Oliver Morrison/ WESA
Protesters gather in a parking lot at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery office on Passayunk Avenue in South Philadelphia. Activists from Philly Thrive and POWER Philadelphia want to prevent a restart of the refinery, which was closed after an explosion and fire in June 2019.
March 16, 2022 | 4:46 PM

Pennsylvania is revising its environmental justice policy. Here’s what’s changing

Officials with the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) released a final draft revision of the state Environmental Justice Public Participation Policy Friday.

By Sophia Schmidt/ WHYY