The state’s largest coal-fired power plant is closing. The owner of Homer City Generating Station in Indiana County says it will decommission the plant by July 1. For StateImpact Pennsylvania, the Allegheny Front’s Reid Frazier reports.
On this West Virginia Morning, this past winter was unseasonably mild. As Chris Schulz reports, that’s put some of the state’s fruit farmers in an unexpectedly precarious position.
A government watchdog is conducting an investigation into the U.S. EPA’s response to the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine Ohio. The Allegheny Front’s Reid Frazier reports.
On today’s episode of The Confluence:U.S. Steel has tentatively settled with two groups, PennEnvironment and the Clean Air Council, who sued over the impact of the December 2018 Clairton Coke Works fire. We hear more from Reid Frazier, energy reporter at the Allegheny Front. (0:00 - 5:30) A local group is fundraising to help build a center to raise and train service dogs for veterans impacted by traumatic brain injuries and PTSD. Bill Jeffcoat, president of Life Changing Service Dogs for Veterans, and Craig Hodgkins, a veteran with a service dog named Foxy, joins the show to talk about the canines’ work. (5:35 - 14:18) It’s been exactly two months since a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio released toxic chemicals. Many residents in the small, rural town are trying to get back to their ordinary lives, even as large trucks with toxic waste still drive the roads. 90.5 WESA’s Oliver Morrison went to East Palestine to report on one effort to bring some normalcy back: The scho
U.S. Steel announced it will begin closing three of its 10 remaining coke batteries at its Clairton plant later this month. For StateImpact Pennsylvania, The Allegheny Front’s Reid Frazier reports.