$90M federal grant awarded for the largest solar project in …
Reid 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 ...
The Complicated History of the Kinzua Dam and How It Changed …
Feb 12, 2020 · In 1956, plans for the Kinzua Dam — which for the previous two decades had been vague and nebulous — began to move forward. Twenty years earlier, in the infamous St. Patrick’s Day Flood, the entire Ohio River Basin had experienced catastrophic flooding.
Should the federal government support a massive recycling plant …
Sep 23, 2024 · A company planning to build a huge plastics recycling facility in Erie, Pennsylvania, got a big boost this summer when the U.S. Department of Energy announced a conditional loan guarantee for the project of $182.6 million.. The facility would recycle some plastics for reuse and send other types to a steel plant …
The Allegheny Front, environmental news for Pennsylvania
The Allegheny Front October 18, 2024. After a coal-fired power plant closed last year, residents of the southwestern Pennsylvania community are trying to make a go of tourism by cleaning up its legacy pollution. A new environmental history book about Pennsylvania aims to include multiple perspectives. New color-correcting viewfinders in some ...
New law requires native vegetation on Pennsylvania highways
Aug 16, 2024 · A new law requires the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to plant native vegetation along state highways. PennDOT must select native plants that will thrive in plant hardiness zones and under environmental conditions along highways. Andrea Ferich, President of the Pennsylvania Native Plant Society, says native plants will cost less for ...
Shapiro announces agreement with CNX on fracking-health …
Nov 2, 2023 · Gov. Josh Shapiro went to Washington County to announce a voluntary agreement the state was signing with CNX, the Canonsburg-based natural gas driller. He also signaled he’d push his Department of Environmental Protection to write tougher regulations for the fracking industry. Standing at a CNX well pad with company CEO Nick DeIuliis, Shapiro ...
CNX pipeline project in Westmoreland County withdrawn - The …
Mar 1, 2024 · The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has shelved a natural gas pipeline project in Westmoreland County after the company behind it failed to get necessary federal wildlife approvals. CNX Midstream had proposed to build the “Slickville Trunkline,” a pair of pipelines along a 13.9-mile stretch of Bell, Loyalhanna, and Salem ...
Groups threaten to sue Beaver County plant over plastic pollution
Reid Frazier October 3, 2023. Captain Evan Clark of Three Rivers Waterkeeper started trawling the shores of the Ohio River in Beaver County in September 2022 to monitor Shell’s newly opened ethane cracker for water pollution. He began finding plastic pellets called nurdles, similar to what the plant was supposed to produce.
Scientist questions EPA's handling of East Palestine cleanup
Jan 26, 2024 · Whelton decided to come to East Palestine with members of his lab to sample drinking water shortly after the derailment. Whelton has consulted on other disasters – like a West Virginia chemical spill in 2014, wildfires and fuel spills.. He began to have more doubts about the EPA’s decision to allow residents back in when he learned the agency was relying on a piece of equipment called a ...
Clean energy dollars are flowing into Pa., but results remain to be …
Dec 12, 2023 · Eos Energy in August announced a $500 million expansion program to boost manufacturing capacity of zinc batteries to store clean energy in the Pittsburgh suburb Turtle Creek, where the median household income is $42,000. The company said in a news release that it expects to bring about 650 new jobs to the area once the expansion is complete.