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Five tornadoes hit Western Pennsylvania and Ohio on Friday, meteorologists from the National Weather Service confirmed after sending teams out on Saturday to investigate the damage. The fastest-blowing tornado touched down in Pittsburgh’s Highland Park neighborhood, while four other tornadoes hit near Leesville Lake in Ohio, Elrama, Harrison City, and
Heavy rain continued to fall across Western Pennsylvania Tuesday night into Wednesday, causing widespread flooding and evacuations of homes and prompting two municipalities to declare states of emergency. On Tuesday, the National Weather Service Pittsburgh recorded 2.68 inches of rain, a record for April 2. In Union Township, some residents had to be evacuated from […]
A proposed natural gas-fueled power plant a few miles north of West Newton would pump more pollution into a region that already has poor air quality, environmentalists and activists said at a community meeting this week. More than 100 people attended the meeting organized by the Environmental Health Project of
The cooling towers at another closed coal-fired power plant in Southwestern Pennsylvania will be demolished Thursday morning. Two concrete hyperbolic cooling towers — one 500 feet tall and the other 550 feet tall — will be imploded at FirstEnergy Corp.’s former Hatfield’s Ferry Power Station along the Monongahela River in