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Balsu Lakshmanan, CTO of Versogen, inside his research lab where researchers are testing an electrolyzer that could make hydrogen production more sustainable and affordable.
April 30, 2024 | 1:30 PM

Green hydrogen: A climate change solution or fossil fuel bait and switch?

To help solve the climate crisis, $750 million could flow to the Philadelphia region to create a hydrogen economy. But some say it’s a deceit to help the fossil fuel industry.
By Susan Phillips
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
At a Jan. 29 press conference, North Braddock resident Edith Abeyta said a settlement involving pollution violations at the Clairton Coke Works could bring about a day "when I do not have to check an air monitor to open my windows."
January 29, 2024 | 4:34 PM

Environmental groups, residents hail ‘historic’ settlement in case against Clairton Coke Works

By Julia Zenkevich/WESA and Chris Potter/WESA
Long Ridge Energy Generation, in Hannibal, Ohio started burning hydrogen along with natural gas in this photo from April, 2022, sending electricity onto the mid-Atlantic grid.
January 5, 2024 | 11:16 AM

Proposed federal hydrogen tax credit rules could be worth billions for projects, including those in Pa.

By Reid Frazier
U.S. Steel's Edgar Thomson Works in Braddock, Pa., on Dec. 18, 2023, the day the storied American company announced plans to be acquired by Japan-based Nippon Steel.
December 19, 2023 | 9:31 AM

U.S. Sens. Casey and Fetterman blast planned sale of U.S. Steel

By Chris Potter/WESA
The two new electric locomotives will save 40,000 gallons of diesel fuel a year and emit no CO2.
October 31, 2023 | 9:55 AM

U.S. Steel debuts an all-electric locomotive in Pittsburgh area, a first in North America

By Reid Frazier
FILE - President Joe Biden speaks during a roundtable with Jewish community leaders in the Indian Treaty Room on the White House complex in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. The White House has selected the Philadelphia area and West Virginia for two regional hubs to produce and deliver hydrogen fuel, an important part of the Biden administration's clean energy plan, according to a person familiar with the plan.
October 13, 2023 | 4:04 PM

Biden awards $7 billion for clean hydrogen hubs across the country to help replace fossil fuels

By Matthew Daly and Marc Levy/ The Associated Press
The Shenango Coke Works smokestacks before they were imploded in May 2018.
August 3, 2023 | 5:07 PM

ER visits plummet after Shenango Coke Works on Neville Island closed

Over three years, emergency room visits dropped by 61 percent compared with past years.

By Reid Frazier
A Dec. 24, 2018 fire damaged a section of U.S. Steel's Clairton Coke Works. Photo: US Steel
March 29, 2023 | 6:44 PM

U.S. Steel reaches tentative settlement with Allegheny County, groups over air pollution following 2018 fire

The groups had sought $42 million for 102-day pollution control outage that sent emissions soaring.

By Reid Frazier
US Steel's Clairton Coke Works.
March 16, 2023 | 3:14 PM

Allegheny County levees $307K in fines on U.S. Steel for Clairton air pollution violations

By Jillian Forstadt/WESA
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