Here’s How to Tell if You Have Lead Pipes in Your Home
Mar 24, 2017 · Your Service Line. The drinking water service line coming from the water main into your house is usually in the basement. Or if you don’t have a basement, it would be usually the lowest point in the house—usually in a corner—probably nearest to the road and low to the floor.
$90M federal grant awarded for the largest solar project in …
Mar 28, 2024 · “Projects such as this obviously attract additional future investment from other companies that want to take advantage of it,” he said. About $20 million of the project will go toward local initiatives, like worker training and funding local fire departments.
Should the federal government support a massive recycling plant …
Sep 23, 2024 · A company planning to build a huge plastics recycling facility in Erie, Pennsylvania, got a big boost this summer when the U.S. Department of Energy announced a conditional loan guarantee for the project of $182.6 million.. The facility would recycle some plastics for reuse and send other types to a steel plant …
The Psychology of Littering - The Allegheny Front
Jan 8, 2016 · So if cities put trash or recycling containers in public spaces, people start doing the right thing again. And Schultz says this proves a basic assumption we make about litterers is totally wrong—namely, that people who litter, just do it because they don’t care.
Judge approves $600 million settlement for East Palestine derailment
Sep 27, 2024 · A federal judge on Wednesday approved a $600 million settlement between Norfolk Southern and people who live near East Palestine, where the company’s train derailed last year and contaminated the community.. At the U.S. District Court in Youngstown, Ohio, Judge Benita Pearson ruled that the settlement of the class …
DOE and Appalachia hydrogen hub reach an agreement for …
Aug 1, 2024 · Sean O’Leary, senior researcher with the Ohio River Valley Institute, said the award “represents a continued commitment to invest in a natural gas industry that has added to the pollution and health burdens in the region while failing to deliver any measurable growth in jobs, income, and population.”
Shapiro announces agreement with CNX on fracking-health …
Nov 2, 2023 · Reid R. Frazier covers energy for The Allegheny Front. His work has taken him as far away as Texas and Louisiana to report on the petrochemical industry and as close to home as Greene County, Pennsylvania to cover the shale gas boom.
A new report compiles years of data about the health risks …
Oct 27, 2023 · A new report by Concerned Health Professionals of NY and Physicians for Social Responsibility concludes that fracking is a public health crisis. That’s not a surprise. It’s the 9th edition of the document called “The Compendium of Scientific, Medical, and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking,” which collects articles from peer-reviewed medical and scientific ...
Frequently Asked Questions About Ethane Crackers
Mar 15, 2012 · Reid R. Frazier covers energy for The Allegheny Front. His work has taken him as far away as Texas and Louisiana to report on the petrochemical industry and as close to home as Greene County, Pennsylvania to cover the shale gas boom.
Creating Native Habitat, Yard by Yard - The Allegheny Front
May 7, 2021 · This story was first published on July 17, 2020. At the Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve at Fox Chapel, a Pittsburgh suburb, environmental botanist Roxanne Swann waters plants on a steamy summer day. She looks around the nursery, where she raises more than a hundred species of native plants. “I think just about every day, I have a new favorite,” she said.