As Enforcement Lags, Toxic Coal Ash Keeps Polluting U.S. Water
A few months ago, the New Castle Generating Station, an hour northwest of Pittsburgh, was named one of the most contaminated coal-fired power plant sites in the country. Polluted with…
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Bitcoin’s Intensive Energy Demands Are Sparking a Crypto Backlash
The first time Jackie Sawicky learned that a Bitcoin mining operation was coming to Corsicana, a rural Texas city 60 miles south of Dallas, was on April 27, when she…
Solution or Band-Aid? Carbon Capture Projects Are Moving Ahead
This summer, the Norwegian company Northern Lights will be drilling a second well line into an aquifer some 8,500 feet below the seafloor, getting it ready to receive liquefied waste…
Unequal Impact: Putting Justice at the Heart of the Climate Fight
Beverly Wright has been at the forefront of the environmental justice movement for more than 30 years, both as head of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice in New…
For Low-Income Pittsburgh, Clean Air Remains an Elusive Goal
For well over a century, the Pittsburgh region was infamous for its industrial air pollution. Belching chimneys from coal and steel plants dimmed the light of the sun at times,…