In the Ohio River Valley, the Petrochemical Boom Is on Hold
At a marina in Moundsville, West Virginia, Dan Williamson looked out across the Ohio River at a quiet…
Democrats Could Field An Anti-fracking Candidate In 2020. Can They Win In Pennsylvania?
Standing on the side of a road that hugs the Ohio River, Jeff Nobers stared across the water…
Uneasy State of Affairs: Scotland’s Use of American Shale Gas
On a quiet street overlooking Scotland’s largest refinery and chemical plant, Kevin Ross surveyed the newest outgrowth of…
PA Prosecutors Eye Potential ‘Environmental Crimes’ of Oil and Gas Companies
When he ran for attorney general in 2016, Josh Shapiro promised to prosecute the state’s fracking industry. In…
‘Razorblades & Feathers in My Throat’: A Fire at a Pittsburgh Steel Plant Made a Major Polluter Even Worse
The complaint came in on an answering service for the Allegheny County Health Department’s air quality hotline on…
‘I Won’t Move. I Love Greene County.’ – Dave Hathaway’s Struggle to Stay, Part One
Dave Hathaway is a coal miner in Greene County, in the very southwestern corner of Pennsylvania. Apart from…