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Allegheny County’s bill to heat seven of its biggest buildings is expected to rise under a contract with Peoples Natural Gas, as the county prepares to abandon a cooperative Downtown steam system, following a contracting process that some officials now question.
Tech companies are creating demand for green buildings in the high-end market, but the added costs mean few can follow their lead.
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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.
The best way to make environmental impact, according to one top equity advisor, is to stop talking about it. Be ruthless about earning money from energy efficiency, and the environmental benefits will follow; good intentions and wanting to appear sustainable are getting in the way of getting results, he said.
By 2030, Pennsylvania’s must cut it's CO2 levels by 33 percent percent from 2005 levels.
Nearly a third of major air polluters in Southwestern Pennsylvania are running without permits required by the U.S. Clean Air Act, according to a Pittsburgh-based environmental watchdog group.
I think that we all agree that there are dams that do not pose significant hazards that are going to be in place for many, many years, and those are really the sites that deserve to be prioritized for development for power.
The region lags in harvesting renewable solar energy, but several forces in Western Pennsylvania are trying to change that.
"I think that there is a growing body of evidence that shows that unconventional natural gas development is associated with negative health impacts"
Environment Derailment after derailment. They just keep happening. And June was a busy month for crashes.
Over the past several years, there have been numerous derailments in North America carrying crude from North Dakota’s Bakken Shale. These accidents have sparked increased calls from citizens, the rail industry and lawmakers for the federal government to increase safety regulations.
To keep up with these incidents, new safety regulations and other train derailments across the country, PublicSource provides a roundup of stories each month.
