Researchers find high levels of hazardous chemicals weeks after East Palestine derailment

Reid FrazierMarch 3, 2023

Carnegie Mellon and Texas A&M researchers found high levels of acrolein, a chemical found in manufacturing and formed in combustion. It is considered a hazardous air pollutant.

HealthPollutionTransportation

Emotions spill over in East Palestine in contentious public meeting

Abigail BottarMarch 3, 2023

This was the first time Norfolk Southern faced the residents of East Palestine, who shouted and booed and expressed frustrations and fears.

HealthPollutionTransportation

Activists look to outside researchers for answers on soil and water safety in East Palestine

Kara HolsoppleFebruary 24, 2023

We spoke with River Valley Organizing, an East Liverpool, Ohio nonprofit, about its effort to secure independent soil and water testing.

HealthTransportationWaterYour Environment Update

Could dioxins be in the soil after the East Palestine train derailment? Experts weigh in

Julie GrantFebruary 24, 2023

Experts fear that dioxins, a group of toxic chemicals, could have been formed when vinyl chloride was burned at the derailment site.

Food and AgricultureHealthPollutionTransportation

Test your home (or school) for radon to reduce lung cancer risk

Kara HolsoppleJanuary 26, 2023

Many Pennsylvanians are unknowingly exposed to the radioactive gas in their homes, but there’s something they can do about it.

HealthYour Environment Update

Groups, residents want EPA to protect Mon Valley from ‘unacceptably high’ levels of benzene pollution from U.S. Steel

Reid FrazierJanuary 4, 2023

Benzene, a known carcinogen, threatens ‘imminent danger’ to residents, the groups argue in a letter to EPA. They want action under the Clean Air Act.

HealthPollutionYour Environment Update

How facing your fears about the climate crisis is better for you and the planet

Kara HolsoppleNovember 25, 2022

An author and researcher on mental health and ecological destruction says a kind of internal activism is needed to solve the climate crisis.

Climate ChangeHealthYour Environment Update

A Philadelphia couple wrote a children’s book to help parents have ‘The Climate Talk’

WHYYNovember 25, 2022

"Coco's Journey" follows Coco the squirrel and her father on a journey to stop climate change. The story helps kids deal with climate anxiety.

Climate ChangeCultureHealth

Inversions trap pollution in Allegheny County this fall, despite new rule

Reid FrazierOctober 21, 2022

Despite a new rule, hydrogen sulfide and soot levels surged in Allegheny County during a weather inversion this month.

HealthPollution

State Sen. Camera Bartolotta urged Pa. health department to drop out of fracking public health forum, letter shows

Reid FrazierOctober 18, 2022

State Sen. Bartolotta, a Washington County Republican, objected to the participation of the Center for Coalfield Justice and the Environmental Health Project. 

EnergyHealthPolitics