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Kara Holsopple, The Allegheny FrontDecember 31, 2020
The coke plant along the Monongahela River, viewed from Monessen’s downtown. (Kara Holsopple/Allegheny Front)
This article originally appeared on StateImpact Pennsylvania.
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Philadelphia and Pittsburgh have climate plans to cut carbon emissions and prepare for the impacts of global warming. But what about the smaller cities and towns in-between? A free state program, in its second year, is helping to bridge the gap.
Monessen, a small city of about 7,000 in Westmoreland County, is one of the participants in this year’s cohort. Most of Monessen is on a hill, sloping towards the Monongahela River, but the downtown is flat — a floodplain.