Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed into law on Thursday a measure that prohibits the use of chemicals known as PFAS in firefighting foam, which is used to suppress fires. The language was ...

This story comes from WVIA News. Archbald Borough Council unanimously rejected a zoning request to construct the 14-building Wildcat Ridge Data Center Campus on 578 acres in the borough. About 200 ...

Air permit meeting for new hot strip mill in Braddock gets heated ...

Data centers compete with regular customers for energy, but the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has rejected a proposal that would have shielded them. PJM is the largest grid operator in the ...

A few dozen residents called on Allegheny County to deny a building plan for a proposed data center outside Pittsburgh at a hearing Wednesday night. The project in Springdale needs county approval on ...

Residents who live near the Edgar Thomson Plant in Braddock expressed their frustration at a U.S. Steel project to build a hot strip mill at the plant. A public environmental justice meeting over the ...

FERC denied PJM’s proposal of temporarily shutting off power ⁠to data centers to avoid blackouts in times of high energy demand.

Ben Kehoe, a park ranger for Allegheny County Parks, will be our guide for The Allegheny Front’s Owl Prowl at Hartwood Acres on October 21. The Allegheny Front’s Kara Holsopple met up with him to ...

There is a steep rise in black lung disease cases among coal miners in Appalachia. Gov. Josh Shapiro and state Treasurer Stacy Garrity discussed data centers and other hot-button issues facing ...

Governor Josh Shapiro has joined 21 states and a few local governments in suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over its recent repeal of limits on climate-warming pollution from power plants ...

A new study shows that rates for black lung disease in Appalachia are surging. At the same time, the Trump administration is putting regulations that could reduce miners’ exposure to the dust ...

This story was first published on November 14, 2014 as part of our series, Bird Files. Bob Mulvihill is an ornithologist with National Aviary‘s Department of Conservation and Field Research. He banded ...