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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Microplastics are persistent across the Delaware River watershed, including in the Philadelphia region, according to a new report by the PennEnvironment Research and Policy Center. The nonprofit ...

At a packed meeting room in Upper Burrell, Pa., Guy Fuller said he was already worried about all the fracking in his neighborhood. Now, the 77-year-old said he was worried a data center with its own ...

This story comes from our partners at WHYY. Microplastics were detected inside a third of insects across six streams within the Schuylkill River watershed, according to a new study in collaboration ...

This week, the Trump administration announced a revised rule that weakens fuel efficiency standards for new cars and light trucks. The rule scaled back the Biden-era requirement of an annual 2% ...

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 ...