The Complicated History of the Kinzua Dam and How It Changed …
WEBFeb 12, 2020 · In 1956, plans for the Kinzua Dam — which for the previous two decades had been vague and nebulous — began to move forward. Twenty years earlier, in the infamous St. Patrick’s Day Flood, the entire Ohio River Basin had …
Our Three Rivers - The Allegheny Front
WEBOur Three Rivers. Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers define its geography and help shape its identity. Yet defining Pittsburghers own relationships to the Monongahela, Allegheny and Ohio Rivers is an ever-shifting process. For over a century, the Three Rivers helped fuel Pittsburgh’s boom, creating a culture where residents saw their rivers as ...
Searching for the Pawpaw’s Indigenous Roots
WEBAug 16, 2024 · It was early August, a fresh summer afternoon in Jackson County, Ohio at the Leo Petroglyph, which is a huge rock carved with images of animals and humans. The sounds of insects in the dense woods combined with the sounds of a nearby creek. “These pawpaws are on the edge of the forest,” Chris Chmiel said …
A Lasting Legacy: DuPont, C8 Contamination and the Community …
WEBJan 9, 2020 · A collective decision was made to use the money won in the class-action suit to conduct an epidemiological study in which nearly 70,000 of the 80,000 plaintiffs stopped into one of six clinics set up throughout the community, provided their medical histories and offered their blood. They were each paid $400.
In Beaver County, a mix of hope and fear over startup of Shell’s …
WEBJun 10, 2022 · For decades, steel mills lined Western Pennsylvania’s rivers, and though they belched out soot and pollution, they put food on the table. It’s a familiar story, nowhere more true than in Beaver County, says Skip Homan.
The Psychology of Littering - The Allegheny Front
WEBJan 8, 2016 · The Psychology of Littering. Littering continues to be a big environmental problem in cities. And one Pittsburgher from the city’s North Side neighborhood is taking the problem personally. Meda Rago regularly picks up trash to keep her street clean. And she really isn’t kidding when she says she’s found some pretty weird things chucked ...
With New Lookout Towers, Pennsylvania Goes Old-School to …
WEBMay 10, 2019 · LISTEN: “Pennsylvania Goes Old-School to Detect Wildfires”. 00:00. 00:00. The lookout towers are two miles apart, sticking out high above the treetops. One is brand new, used for the first time this spring along with 15 others across the state. Pennsylvania doesn’t have massive wildfires like out West, but several hundred smaller ones ...
Frequently Asked Questions About Ethane Crackers
WEBMar 15, 2012 · A typical “world-scale” ethane cracker costs in the neighborhood of $5 billion to build and creates about 10,000 jobs during construction. But since plant operations are heavily automated, they only create between 350 and 1,200 permanent jobs. The vast majority of these facilities are located on the Gulf Coast.
Deer and invasive species threaten long-term survival of …
WEBOct 15, 2021 · By Rebecca Reese, Marylee Williams 90.5 WESA. Pennsylvania forests are facing looming threats that could catastrophically change the state’s landscape. Two academics, Ryan Utz, an assistant professor of water resources at Chatham University, and Walter Carson, an associate professor of plant community ecology at the University of Pittsburgh, are researching the causes, the solutions and what ...
How a Burning River Helped Create the Clean Water Act
WEBThe Cuyahoga River has caught fire a total of 13 times dating back to 1868. But the fire in 1969, helped spur action that ultimately led to the passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972. Later that year, Congress passed the National Environmental Policy Act. It was the precursor to the Environmental Protection Agency, which was established in 1970 ...