Groups Sue EPA over Coal Plant Air Pollution in Indiana County

Reid FrazierDecember 23, 2020

The lawsuit is challenging a plan to allow spikes of sulfur dioxide at two power plants. Even at low levels, SO2 can affect asthmatics in as little as two minutes.

EnergyHealthPollution

State Gives $2.5 Million to Pitt to Study Health Impacts of Fracking

Rachel McDevittDecember 23, 2020

Pitt Public Health will conduct two studies, including a possible relationship to childhood cancers in southwestern Pa.

HealthPollution

Study: Pa. Heart Failure Patients Near Fracking More Likely to be Hospitalized

Reid FrazierDecember 21, 2020

A new study found heart failure patients living near fracking operations were more likely to be hospitalized than those farther away.

EnergyHealth

In a Noisy World, Our Brains Still Need the Sounds of Nature

Kerry KleinDecember 18, 2020

Next time you’re outside, turn off your car, stop talking and listen. What you hear might just be good for you.

HealthRecreation

Fears for Safety and Climate Surround LNG Export Terminal Planned on the Delaware River

Susan PhillipsDecember 11, 2020

What scares people the most is transporting flammable LNG 200 miles along the I-95 corridor through densely populated areas.

Climate ChangeEnergyHealth

EPA Declines to Strengthen Soot Standard

Reid FrazierDecember 8, 2020

The agency went against recommendations from its own scientists that a stronger standard could save lives. Pa. is one of four states that don't meet the current standard.

HealthPollution

Lead in Game Meat a Health Risk for Hunting Families and Food Bank Recipients

Kara HolsoppleDecember 4, 2020

Pennsylvania hunters donated 160,000 pounds of game meat to food banks last year. Lead ammo can contaminate meat with dangerous levels of toxic lead.

Environmental JusticeHealthRecreationWild PennsylvaniaYour Environment Update

Families and Advocates Criticize Pa.’s Fracking Health Studies

Reid FrazierDecember 3, 2020

Families say they're being cut out of the process of designing studies about whether fracking had anything to do with childhood cancers in SW Pa.

EnergyHealth

Lyme Disease Risk is High in City Parks, Too

Kara HolsoppleNovember 20, 2020

A researcher found ticks with the bacteria that causes Lyme disease in Pittsburgh's parks. He says there's a risk of getting the disease at any urban or suburban park in the region.

HealthRecreationYour Environment Update

WVU Researchers to Develop Lyme Disease Vaccine As Climate Change Expands Tick’s Reach

Brittany PattersonNovember 19, 2020

The nearly $2 million federal grant comes as cases of the tick-borne bacterial infection are on the rise nationwide.

HealthWild PennsylvaniaYour Environment Update