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.
In Sweden, companies are cleaning up steel production
Dec 6, 2024 · Stegra will produce its hydrogen from water, using renewable energy, significantly cutting its CO2 footprint. “What you’re doing is essentially replacing a coal mine with a facility that uses electricity and water,” Graf said.
$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.
Our Three Rivers - The Allegheny Front
Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers define its geography and help shape its identity. Yet defining Pittsburghers own relationships to the Monongahela, Allegheny and Ohio Rivers is an ever-shifting process. For over a century, the Three Rivers helped fuel Pittsburgh’s boom, creating a culture where residents saw their rivers as little more than industrial sewers. Today, that’s changing. Decades […]
Pa. Game Commission temporarily expands Sunday hunting
Nov 15, 2024 · “If they don’t have enough time to get out in the woods, they’re less likely to buy a license,” Lau said. “And over the years, that is a factor, most likely, in the long term loss in hunters that we’re seeing, not only here in Pennsylvania but across the nation.”
Group wants stricter permit for U.S. Steel to stop oily releases into ...
Nov 14, 2024 · The DEP issued a compliance order in October 2023 requiring U.S. Steel to deploy absorbent booms, investigate the cause of the releases and implement a plan to fix any problems.. But the problem is still happening, according to the DEP. Lauren Camarda, an agency spokesperson, said in an email there was another release on October 10 from the plant.
EPA issues consent order for Westmoreland Co. hazardous waste …
Oct 1, 2024 · In the 1980s, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection found the landfill had leached chemicals into the groundwater and ordered the company to re-cap some sections. The EPA says groundwater beneath the facility shows “sporadic exceedances” of fluoride, barium, cadmium, lead and manganese. “The community has long been dealing with what they say is involuntary exposure to ...
Trump and Harris rev-up the rhetoric about electric vehicles
Oct 10, 2024 · According to a study published in Nature Communications in September, “it has been widely suggested that the transition to battery electric vehicles will require 30% fewer assembly workers than those needed for internal combustion engine vehicles.” But researchers found the opposite: EVs are more labor-intensive to …
New studies shed light on the contamination and response to East ...
Oct 23, 2024 · After the Norfolk Southern train derailed along the Pennsylvania-Ohio border last year, releasing 1.1 million pounds of vinyl chloride and other chemicals into the environment, the National Science Foundation responded quickly. The independent, federal agency funded university-based research, including a study by Andrew Whelton, Professor of Civil, Environmental and Ecological Engineering at ...
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 …