May 17, 2022 | 5:25 AM
Pennsylvania is vying for a clean energy hub, but some worry it still relies on fossil fuels
“This would transform our economy. This would transform us in ways we really should be excited about.”
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Julia Zenkevich is a general assignment reporter for 90.5 WESA. She first joined the station as a production assistant on The Confluence, and more recently served as a fill-in producer for The Confluence and Morning Edition. She’s a life-long Pittsburgher, and attended the University of Pittsburgh. She can be reached at jzenkevich@wesa.fm.
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May 12, 2022 | 10:31 AM
Environmentalists and U.S. Steel clash over Allegheny County air quality regulations
Residents, activists, union workers and U.S. Steel weighed in on new rules that could reduce air pollution from the Clairton Coke Works at a public hearing Wednesday night.
March 25, 2022 | 9:36 AM
U.S. Steel fined more than $4.5 million for air pollution in Clairton
The fine came just weeks after the health department fined U.S. Steel nearly 2 million dollars for gas leaks at the Clairton Coke Works.
Updated: November 10, 2021 | 2:06 pm
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Arkoosh calls for end to fracking in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania gas wells produced about 7.1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in 2020 — the largest volume of natural gas ever produced in the state in a single year.
