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Julie Grant/The Allegheny Front

Julie Grant got her start in public radio at age 19 while at Miami University in Ohio. After studying land ethics in graduate school at Kent State University, Julie covered environmental issues in the Great Lakes region for Michigan Radio’s Environment Report and North Country Public Radio in New York. She’s won many awards, including an Edward R. Murrow Award in New York, and was named “Best Reporter” in Ohio by the Society of Professional Journalists. Her stories have aired on NPR’s Morning Edition , The Splendid Table and Studio 360. Julie loves covering agricultural issues for the Allegheny Front—exploring what we eat, who produces it and how it’s related to the natural environment.
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Karen Feridun, co-founder of the Better Path Coalition, left, and Greg Schwedock, head of product and technology of Climate Clock, unveil the climate clock that will sit at the capitol for the rest of the legislative session. The clock was unveiling at a Pennsylvania Climate Convergence press conference in the East Wing of the Capitol complex on Monday, June 13, 2022
August 2, 2024 | 9:47 AM

How can Kamala Harris appeal to climate voters in Pennsylvania?

By Julie Grant/The Allegheny Front
Zsuzsa Gyenes in East Palestine. She and her son moved away after the Norfolk Southern train derailment and chemical burn. Photo: Julie Grant / The Allegheny Front
January 29, 2024 | 4:11 PM

Leaving East Palestine: A mother’s story

By Julie Grant/The Allegheny Front
Mason Heberling, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History's Assistant Curator of Botany, stands in Japanese knotweed, an invasive plant that was originally planted in gardens. Now, it is taking over riverbanks and forests.
October 31, 2023 | 11:41 AM

Why teaching people about invasive plants can get a little thorny

By Julie Grant/The Allegheny Front
Climate activists rally in front of the White House at Lafayette Square to demand that President Joe Biden declare a climate emergency and move the country rapidly away from fossil fuels, July 4, 2023, in Washington. After being thwarted by Congress, Biden will use his executive authority to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps that will serve as a major green jobs training program.
September 25, 2023 | 9:28 AM

Pa. groups thrilled by Biden’s American Climate Corps, but wish it were bigger

By Julie Grant/The Allegheny Front
A flare at Shell's Monaca plant February 13, 2023.
May 12, 2023 | 10:40 AM

Environmental groups sue Shell over air pollution violations at cracker plant in Beaver County

By Julie Grant/The Allegheny Front
A black plume rises over East Palestine, Ohio, as a result of a controlled detonation of a portion of the derailed Norfolk and Southern trains Monday, Feb. 6, 2023.
Updated: February 13, 2023 | 5:43 pm

EPA lists additional chemicals released in East Palestine train derailment

By Julie Grant/The Allegheny Front
This file photo shows Shamokin Creek in Shamokin, Pa. Drainage from thousands of abandoned coal mines has contaminated thousands of miles of rivers and streams in the state.
December 23, 2022 | 4:26 PM

Abandoned mine pollution long-term cleanup will get money from federal spending bill

The issue stems from last year’s bipartisan infrastructure law, which provided $11.3 billion dollars for states to clean up abandoned mine lands.

By Julie Grant/The Allegheny Front
Old Man's Cave in Hocking Hills State Park in Ohio is a popular hiking spot.
December 22, 2022 | 10:09 AM

Ohio bill to spur fracking in state parks and forests heads to governor’s office

Lawmakers added the amendment to this unrelated bill in response to requests by the oil and gas industry.

By Julie Grant/The Allegheny Front
The entrance to the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill in Rostraver, which accepts solid fracking waste and has sent what's called leachate -- liquid waste that comes out of the landfill when rainwater trickles through its piles of garbage -- to the Belle Vernon sewage treatment plant.
September 6, 2022 | 11:29 AM

DEP hears concerns over evaporator at western Pa. landfill that processes fracking waste

DEP’s proposed plan approval would allow for the temporary operation of the evaporator for 180 days to process 45,000 gallons of leachate per day.

By Julie Grant/The Allegheny Front
The Homer City power plant in Indiana, Pa.
July 1, 2022 | 3:54 PM

Supreme Court pushes U.S. closer to ‘climate cliff,’ say Pennsylvania environmental leaders

In 2020, the total emissions of Pennsylvania’s top 10 power plants are equivalent to eight million cars on the road for a year, according to a recent report by PennEnvironment.

By Julie Grant/The Allegheny Front
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