The new tax credits for home solar and energy efficiency you …
WEBAug 23, 2024 — It’s been two years since the nation’s historic climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act, was signed.The IRA is the biggest investment in clean energy projects in U.S. history, and many Americans don’t know about it even though some of its programs could directly benefit consumers, like the Residential Clean Energy Tax Credit.
Kayak tour allows Pittsburghers to transform trash into art
WEBAug 9, 2024 — As a mixed-media artist, she designed a kayak tour on the Allegheny River this summer where participants created sculptural art using trash and natural materials found on the river’s shoreline. A full-time K-12 art teacher, Cervone McElwain is also part of the Pittsburgh Creative Corps with Shiftworks Community + Public Arts, the nonprofit ...
$90M federal grant awarded for the largest solar project in …
WEBReid Frazier March 28, 2024. The Department of Energy is awarding $90 million to a company that has promised to build what would be the largest solar project in the state on a former coal mine in central Pennsylvania. The 402-megawatt solar farm would be the largest in the state. The award goes to Delaware-based Mineral Basin Solar LLC, a ...
DOE and Appalachia hydrogen hub reach an agreement for …
WEBAug 1, 2024 — The Department of Energy announced it has reached an agreement with a public-private consortium to build a hydrogen hub in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio. The Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub, or ARCH 2, will get up to $925 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The agreement frees up $30 million in funding for the ...
Sixty Years Ago, Smog Killed 20 People in a Pennsylvania Town.
WEBApr 14, 2017 — Councilman Don Pavelko is proud of his town’s legacy. Inside the museum, he shows a young visitor an old oxygen tank — the same tank a firefighter carried throughout the dark streets of Donora to help citizens survive the smog that put pollution control on the map.
When Coyotes Come to Town - The Allegheny Front
WEBJul 1, 2024 — Without wolves as natural competitors, coyotes spread from coast to coast. In a weird twist of fate–and survival–wolves and coyotes hybridized in Ontario. That resulted in a larger coyote in the east–a third larger than western coyotes–weighing 35 to 55 pounds. Coyote in Pittsburgh’s Greenfield neighborhood, October 2017.
Commission approves bids to frack Ohio's largest state park
WEBFeb 26, 2024 — The five-member commission awarded two bids to Infinity Natural Resources to frack under Salt Fork State Park, Ohio’s largest state park. It will pay Ohio more than $58 million and a 12.5% royalty. As the commission voted, Terri Sabo, who lives near the park, cried out from her seat in the audience. …
Our Three Rivers - The Allegheny Front
WEBOur Three Rivers. 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 ...
Episode for September 27, 2024 - The Allegheny Front
WEB6 days ago — A judge signed off on a 600 million dollar settlement between Norfolk Southern and people who live near the East Palestine train derailment. But many are unhappy with the outcome. A new study looks at the influence of oil and gas industry donations on university research. Survivors of the worst industrial accident in world history in Bhopal, India visited Beaver County to talk about the multi ...
The Psychology of Littering - The Allegheny Front
WEBJan 8, 2016 — The Psychology of Littering. Littering continues to be a big environmental problem in cities. And one Pittsburgher from the city’s North Side neighborhood is taking the problem personally. Meda Rago regularly picks up trash to keep her street clean. And she really isn’t kidding when she says she’s found some pretty weird things chucked ...