Your Environment Update Archives

How Air Pollution Widens the Income Gap

Kara HolsoppleDecember 15, 2018

Air pollution contributes to the widening gap between Pittsburgh's haves and have nots.

EconomyHazardous to Your HealthPollutionYour Environment Update

Trump Administration Rolls Back Obama-Era Water Protections

WHYYDecember 12, 2018

The new rule would eliminate federal protections for about 40 percent of Pennsylvania’s streams. Only major navigable waterways, tributaries that run into them or adjacent wetlands along with some lakes will be covered by the Clean Water Act.

PoliticsPollutionWaterYour Environment Update

The Consequences of Lead Exposure for Kids are Scary. Talking About it Doesn’t Have to Be.

Kara HolsoppleNovember 29, 2018

Kids can get exposed to lead through paint, dust and drinking water. Then what?

HealthYour Environment Update

The Red State Paradox

Reid FrazierNovember 22, 2018

Who are the people who gave Trump their votes? And where does their vision for the environment come from?

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Photographs and Poetry Reveal Tension Fracking Brings to Pennsylvania

Kara HolsoppleNovember 21, 2018

A book of poetry and photographs looks at the risks and benefits after a decade of fracking in Pennsylvania.

CultureEnergyEnvironmental JusticeYour Environment Update

America Voted. How did the Environment Fare?

Kara HolsoppleNovember 9, 2018

The midterm election results are (mostly) in. And what that means for the environment is a mixed bag.

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How Climate Change Hurts Kids’ Health

Kara HolsoppleNovember 2, 2018

More severe storms, rising sea levels and temperatures will affect all of us in one way or another. But children are uniquely vulnerable.

Climate ChangeHazardous to Your HealthHealthYour Environment Update

Environmentalists Could Change Election Outcomes. They Just Need to Vote.

Julie GrantNovember 1, 2018

In the 2014 midterm election, more than 15 million environmentalists --all registered voters-- didn't show up. Will they this time?

PodcastsPoliticsYour Environment Update

Pollution is Changing the Diet of Songbirds

Kara HolsoppleOctober 18, 2018

The acid mine drainage that has caused streams to turn orange is also killing off the aquatic insects that the Louisiana waterthrush eats.

PollutionWaterWild PennsylvaniaWildlifeYour Environment Update

Global Warming: How Bad Can It Be?

Reid FrazierOctober 12, 2018

From our Trump on Earth podcast, we ask whether a reckoning with some of the horrifying possibilities of climate change moves people to action or complacency?

Climate ChangePodcastsYour Environment Update

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2024 Election

What Pennsylvania voters say about the environment

Longtime environmental official on Pennsylvania election results: People will need to be ‘as tenacious as the industry’

What can we expect from a Trump administration? Our reporters weigh in.

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