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WEB2 days ago · The Allegheny Front September 6, 2024. As potato chips get more expensive, is climate change part of the reason? We crunch the numbers. As more flooding, erosion and invasive plants are impacting Pennsylvania's trails, groups are working to make trail systems more climate resilient. This November, the Pennsylvania legislature could get a …
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 …
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.
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 ...
A Rare Prairie in Pennsylvania is in Full Bloom Right Now
WEBJul 24, 2024 · Visiting the Prairie in Full Bloom. The prairie trails at Jennings Environment and Education Center are open every day from sunrise to sunset. Right now, Jennings has a self-guided walk through the prairie that takes visitors to 20 different wildflowers. Crotsley said it’s not just about identifying the wildflowers, but also about understanding the connections these beautiful blooms have to ...
Moraine State Park’s History Goes Way Back - The Allegheny Front
WEBJul 2, 2020 · Moraine State Park is in Butler County, less than an hour north of Pittsburgh. It was established 1970, but author Polly Shaw says its history goes back much further. “There was a glacier, in the Pleistocene era. It receded 20,000 or 18,000 years ago,” Shaw says. “The ‘moraine’ refers to that edge of the glacier.”.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Everything You Need To Know About The Cicadas That Will Soon …
WEBMay 16, 2019 · It’s worth noting these are periodical cicadas, rather than annual cicadas, which are green and come out each summer. The brown-ish periodical cicadas in the eastern United States come out every 13 or 17 years in various places.
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