What will happen to hydrogen, one of Biden's landmark climate …
Oct 25, 2024 · Proposed federal hydrogen tax credit rules could be worth billions for projects, including those in Pa.; Oil and gas companies and some renewable developers want more leeway in using fossil fuels to power this process, otherwise, they say, hydrogen projects won’t be …
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The Psychology of Littering - The Allegheny Front
Jan 8, 2016 · So if cities put trash or recycling containers in public spaces, people start doing the right thing again. And Schultz says this proves a basic assumption we make about litterers is totally wrong—namely, that people who litter, just do it because they don’t care.
Creating Native Habitat, Yard by Yard - The Allegheny Front
May 7, 2021 · This story was first published on July 17, 2020. At the Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve at Fox Chapel, a Pittsburgh suburb, environmental botanist Roxanne Swann waters plants on a steamy summer day. She looks around the nursery, where she raises more than a hundred species of native plants. “I think just about every day, I have a new favorite,” she said.
Hydrogen is coming to Pennsylvania. Now what?
Oct 23, 2023 · President Biden’s announcement last Thursday that Pennsylvania would get parts of two federally-funded hydrogen hubs struck Rich Negrin as a stroke of good luck. “I’m not kidding,” Negrin said, “I don’t want to put too fine a point on it. I think it’s the dawn of a clean energy economy that we’ve been talking about for years.”
Our Three Rivers - The Allegheny Front
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 little more than industrial sewers. Today, that’s changing. Decades […]
How a rare bog in Pennsylvania formed 13,000 years ago
May 24, 2024 · For thousands of years, dead vegetation has sunk below the bog’s living layer. The center of the bog is 60 feet deep. Because it’s covered by water organic matter doesn’t decompose.
New studies shed light on the contamination and response to East ...
Oct 23, 2024 · After the Norfolk Southern train derailed along the Pennsylvania-Ohio border last year, releasing 1.1 million pounds of vinyl chloride and other chemicals into the environment, the National Science Foundation responded quickly. The independent, federal agency funded university-based research, including a study by Andrew Whelton, Professor of Civil, Environmental and Ecological Engineering at ...
Trump and Harris rev-up the rhetoric about electric vehicles
Oct 10, 2024 · According to a study published in Nature Communications in September, “it has been widely suggested that the transition to battery electric vehicles will require 30% fewer assembly workers than those needed for internal combustion engine vehicles.” But researchers found the opposite: EVs are more labor-intensive to …
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