Your Environment Update Archives

An environmental leader’s new memoir is inspired by the life and work of Rachel Carson

Kara Holsopple·February 16, 2023

Patricia DeMarco's story reveals the strength found in adversity, purpose and the feeling of being at one with nature.

Residents allowed back home near Ohio train derailment after air declared safe

Julie Grant·February 8, 2023

Residents were evacuated because of a 50-car train derailment that happened late Friday night near the Pennsylvania border.

Pollution Transportation Water Your Environment Update

‘Advanced’ plastic recycling using high heat and chemicals is environmentally problematic, a new government study finds

James Bruggers·February 1, 2023

Industry is pursuing various technologies to recycle plastic, but environmentalists say they only worsen environmental problems.

Pollution Your Environment Update

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

Kara Holsopple·January 26, 2023

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

Health Your Environment Update

Help wanted: River Ice Spotters to keep an eye on potential flooding

Kara Holsopple·January 20, 2023

The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh is looking for volunteers to help identify hazardous river conditions like ice jams.

Conservation Water Your Environment Update

DEP issues scathing report on the conventional oil and gas industry

Kara Holsopple·January 13, 2023

DEP calls out the industry as having "a culture of noncompliance as an acceptable norm."

Energy Pollution Your Environment Update

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

Reid Frazier·January 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.

Health Pollution Your Environment Update

A wildlife biologist’s new birding guide brings everyone into the flock

Kara Holsopple·December 30, 2022

A co-organizer of Black Birders Week has written a new guide for people who love birds, and those who don’t know it yet.

Conservation Culture Wild Pennsylvania Wildlife Your Environment Update

Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ turns 60. Why it still resonates

Kara Holsopple·December 23, 2022

The instant classic warned that chemicals could have unintended consequences on the environment. That same warning could be given today.

Culture History Your Environment Update

A nature poet grapples with life at the edge of the climate crisis

Kara Holsopple·December 23, 2022

Penn State professor Todd Davis has a new book of poetry that explores the damage that people have done to each other and nature.

Climate Change Conservation Culture Wild Pennsylvania Your Environment Update

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