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Pennsylvania environmental officials are bracing for a future filled with lawsuits and angry citizens as the state tries to get a handle on widespread chemical contamination that some other states have already begun to mitigate.
A new Pennsylvania state task force established to address widespread chemical contamination will hold its first public meeting on Friday, as questions loom about how far the contamination has spread and what it will take to get it under control.
The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority [PWSA] has revealed details of a $1 billion plan to reinvest in aging infrastructure that supplies the city with drinking water and corrals its stormwater and sewage.
After Sherri Mason began researching microplastics in 2012, her work led the Food and Drug Administration to ban plastic microbeads in face creams and shampoos. For that accomplishment, she earned a Heinz Award for Public Policy.
In downtown Pittsburgh Wednesday morning, dozens of people contested a proposed rollback of regulations that require car manufacturers to continue increasing vehicle fuel efficiency through 2026.
Here is a rare opportunity for Pittsburghers to comment on one of Trump’s biggest proposed changes to environmental regulations.
A new study also estimates that all of Allegheny County's nearly 500 illegal dumpsites could be cleaned up for fewer than $1 million.
Does Doug Bentrem also worry about the dangers the pipeline brings to his property and his cows? “Of course.
![“Can you scooch so [the bug] doesn’t climb on me?” Theodora Reese, 6, asked her mother, Phoebe, during a picnic at Ambridge Reservoir. (Photo by Oliver Morrison/PublicSource)](https://www.publicsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Cr-9238-1170x780_cropped-140x140.jpg)
Fifty climate activists packed onto a tour bus near the Energy Innovation Center in Uptown on Saturday. “I’d like to see us go on a fun trip somewhere,” Perry Recker, a member of the Pittsburgh chapter of the Climate Reality Project, had heard someone say at one of their recent climate change meetings. From that comment, they planned a tour. As if on cue, applause broke out when the last woman climbed aboard and the tour could start. Nine months ago, Al Gore, the founder of he Climate Reality Project, came to Pittsburgh and spoke to more than 1,000 activists.
