The Natural Resources Defense Council is leveraging everything from lawsuits to solidarity with other movements to fight back against the Trump administration.
Having anxiety over climate change? You're not alone. In fact, how climate change is impacting us psychologically is a favorite new topic for writers and social scientists.
Environmentalist Adrianna Quintero talks about why environmental issues, climate change and immigration policy are all deeply linked for many Latino communities.
Protesters from the Standing Rock Sioux and supporters of the tribe have maintained a near-constant demonstration against the Dakota Access pipeline. But has time finally run out?
Pennsylvania has hundreds of small dams that don't provide drinking water or flood control, so the state and conservation groups have been making a big push to remove them.
Last weekend, the city’s favorite pair of eagles caught a tough break when a windstorm blew down the tree they were nesting in. But a veteran eagle watcher says there’s still plenty of time for them to get their groove on.
How the state ended up with such a lousy record enforcing federal safe drinking water standards is hardly a mystery. A former DEP secretary says the solutions aren't complicated either.
For years, regional agreements have been used to improve watersheds in places like the Chesapeake Bay and the Great Lakes. Some advocates argue the Ohio River needs one too.
According to a new report, Pennsylvanians have filed around 9,000 complaints over the past decade, mostly over water contamination. And that number has increased dramatically in the fracking era.
Former EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman says the Trump administration appears to be taking a "scorched earth" approach with the agency. And we all stand to lose big.
Kara Holsopple likes to tell environmental stories that surprise listeners, and connect them to people and places nearby, and in the wider world. Kara is a lifelong resident of southwestern Pennsylvania, except for her undergraduate years at Sarah Lawrence College. She earned a masters degree in professional writing from Chatham University, and has been a features writer for regional magazines. Kara got her start in radio working with Pittsburgh Indymedia’s Rustbelt Radio. She produced "The Allegheny Front Rewind" series, celebrating the show's 20th anniversary, and her work has been heard on The Environment Report, Inside Appalachia and Here & Now. One summer she read all of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple & Poirot detective novels.
