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.
Government agencies like NASA and NOAA have huge archives of climate data that are decades in the making. But some worry that research is in danger of disappearing under the Trump administration.
A new PBS film premiering next week takes a fresh look at the life and work of the Pennsylvanian regarded to be the godmother of the modern environmental movement.
When 412 Food Rescue noticed a lot of smaller food donations were slipping through the cracks, they designed an app that makes it easy for volunteers to pitch in.
Is putting a big solar array on the former coke plant site just a pipe dream? Maybe not. The utility that owns it actually has a robust recent history of investing in renewables.
A coalition of oil and gas companies is seeking a 50-year permit that would allow the killing or disturbing of five bat species across Pennsylvania and Ohio.
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.
