Reid Frazier
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Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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Hydrogen may be a climate solution. There's debate over how clean it will truly be
The federal government plans to build several hydrogen hubs around the country. The goal is to find a cleaner replacement for fossil fuels. But there are challenges in how hydrogen is produced. → Read More
Biden Says His Climate Plan Means Jobs. Some Union Members Are Skeptical
President Biden has repeatedly promised the shift to clean energy will create "good-paying union jobs." But the wind and solar industries generally pay less, are not unionized, and need fewer people. → Read More
Appalachian Town Must 'Wait And Wait' As Pandemic Puts Plastics Plant On Hold
For a decade, growing American gas production has fueled a petrochemical boom. There are big plans for more plants in Appalachia, but the pandemic — and an oversupply of plastics — may crush them. → Read More
Pandemic Shutdown Is Speeding Up The Collapse Of Coal
Coal use has plummeted in part because it's more expensive than natural gas or renewable energy. Mines are shutting down, and some power plants may run out of places to stockpile coal. → Read More
Why One Writer Says Coronavirus is Like Climate Change on Steroids
There are some similarities: a reluctance to admit to the scale of the problem and the need to take radical action very quickly on a global scale. And we have to listen to the scientists. → Read More
In Pennsylvania, Poll Finds Registered Voters Split on Whether to Ban Fracking
In the poll, support for a ban was strong in cities and suburbs and weak in rural southwestern Pennsylvania. → Read More
The U.S. Natural Gas Boom Is Fueling A Global Plastics Boom
America is now the world's biggest exporter of ethane, a part of natural gas that's a building block for making plastics. That's helping fuel the fast-growing global plastics industry. → Read More
Trump Administration Proposes Relaxing Rules On Waste From Coal Plants
The Environmental Protection Agency would give coal plants more time to close unlined coal ash ponds, and ease rules on wastewater. Opponents say that prolongs the risk of toxic spills. → Read More
At a refinery in Scotland, a plastics evangelist says U.S. shale gas is vital
Shale gas from Pennsylvania is fueling a plastics industry in Scotland. → Read More
Why I’m following Pa’s Marcellus shale gas to Scotland
Here's a hint: plastics. → Read More
US Steel’s Clairton plant pollution controls knocked out again by another fire
Though there could be high levels of sulfur dioxide in the air, the health department said the elderly, the young, and those with breathing difficulties don’t have to take added precautions right now. → Read More
$3 Million Settlement Revealed In High-Profile Fracking Case
The settlement is now public because of computer error. Pennsylvania families, whose ordeal was detailed in a Pulitzer-winning book, claimed air, groundwater and soil contamination. → Read More
Range Resources Turned Down in Request to See Reporters’ Documents, Communications with Sources
Judge rules natural gas company's request would break the law on protecting confidential sources. → Read More
State: No cancer cluster in Washington County school district
The Pennsylvania department of health has determined that there is no cancer cluster in a Washington County school district. The agency conducted the study after several cases of Ewing sarcoma, a rare bone cancer, were reported there. The department looked at statistics from the Pennsylvania Cancer Registry dating to 1985. In addition to Ewing sarcoma, … → Read More
Pittsburgh suburb is deciding whether to allow fracking beneath local park
Franklin Park borough council is considering whether to lease 81 acres of land beneath Linbrook Park for fracking. → Read More
One Town's Decades Long Struggle For Cleaner Air
The air has been getting dirtier around the country's largest coke fuel plant near Pittsburgh. The push to clean up pollution is complicated when residents depend on the industry that's causing it. → Read More
Two Hurt in Construction Accident Along Mariner East 2 Near Pittsburgh
The contractors were injured in a construction accident on Sunoco Logistics’ Mariner East 2 pipeline late Sunday. → Read More
Asthma, dirty air and the struggle to clean up a chronic polluter
After decades of pollution violations, will the Clairton Coke Works clean up it act? Some are cautiously optimistic. → Read More
'Pockets Of Poison' Still Exist: Holocaust Survivors Reflect On Pittsburgh Shooting
Holocaust survivors Moshe Baran and Sam Gottesman live on the same floor of a Squirrel Hill apartment building just five blocks away from the Tree of Life synagogue. → Read More
Democratic Socialists are coming to Harrisburg. What does it mean for environmental policies?
The candidates want a severance tax on oil and gas, more money for the Department of Environmental Protection, and a moratorium on fracking. They may find it hard to have an impact on legislation, but hope to begin changing the conversation in the Legislature. → Read More