How the promise of a clean energy future in Pennsylvania could be undone by politics
The state’s powerful oil and gas industry wields influence in ways that could blunt the impact of the Inflation Reduction Act.
By Audrey Carleton
Tags: Environment
How an anti-abortion bill in Pennsylvania could also undermine climate laws
Pennsylvania bill jeopardizing millions in oil well cleanup funding passed by governor
Tags: Environment, Tom Wolf
Pennsylvania oil lobby keeps abandoned wells unplugged
The oil and gas industry could jeopardize federal funding to clean up the state’s thousands of abandoned and leaking wells
Tags: Environment, Capital & Main, Joseph Scarnati, Mike Turzai, Daryl Metcalfe, Cameron Energy, Video
With billions in federal cash, will Pennsylvania finally cap its abandoned, polluting oil wells?
Thousands of homeowners live near methane-emitting wells. The fossil fuel industry has avoided cleaning up the mess for over a century.
Tags: Environment, Environment, Pennsylvania, abandoned oil wells, contamination, federal money, infrastructure bill, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Warren
By Mars Johnson
Pittsburgh’s street trees are free upon request. So why do they often go to the city’s wealthiest residents?
By James Paul
The mayor and the tenor: when Masloff met Pavarotti
By David S. Rotenstein
The cassette-tape comeback has reached Pittsburgh's record stores
By Ethan Beck
Sophie Masloff seldom talked about her childhood. Were seedy family ties the reason?