This story comes from WVIA News. This story was first published March 22, 2024. Update: Earth Conservancy gifted Industrial Archives & Library the coal company documents on March 13. The historic ...

“Cradle of Conservation” examines how people have interacted with the environment from pre-colonial days to now.

No one knows exactly when the roof of Control Room # 2 at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works started to leak. But leak it did, probably for “years,” in the words of one investigator hired by the ...

This story is part of our series, Wild Pennsylvania. Check out all of our stories here. A new study uses museum specimens to find out how the leaves of poison ivy in Pennsylvania have changed with the ...

They say upgrades don’t incorporate newer technologies but instead are "stopgap things to make U.S. Steel profitable in the short term." ...

This story is the fourth in a series examining the aftermath of the Feb. 3, 2023, Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, funded in part by the Fund for Investigative Journalism. It ...

On a Saturday morning in March, a demolition crew took down the smokestacks at the Homer City Generating Station. The plant – first commissioned in 1969 – once ...

Hannah Hohman and Koa Reitz stood on an old bridge on a sunny afternoon, looking down at the confluence of two streams. Hohman glanced back and forth between the iced-over streams below and the GPS on ...

For years, residents have complained about the MAX Environmental hazardous waste landfill in the tiny town of Yukon, Westmoreland County. A federal environmental investigation recently found the ...

At family-friendly event in the Laurel Highlands climate change communication tools were used to engage the public about the issue and what they can do. The Pennsylvania state House has approved two ...

CARLISLE, Pa.—Standing in her granddaughter’s yard in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on a recent fall day, Lynde Blymier pointed to a patch of ground where the grass was sparse. On this foot-wide spot, dead ...

This story comes from our partner, 90.5 WESA. Massive computing centers proposed across Pennsylvania could be a huge draw on the power grid, causing worries that electric bills will rise for the rest ...