Anya Litvak

A few hours into U.S. Steel’s open house event inside Carnegie One Library in Braddock, the Allegheny County Health Department issued a hazardous air quality warning. Concentrations of fine particulate matter — particles that are 2.5 micrometers in diamet... See more

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They don’t look like much: two small boxes and a solar panel mounted on utility poles around Pittsburgh. A small weather station and a sensor constantly update Duquesne Light on the conditions of its transmission lines. The system crunches the data into a... See more

Don’t shoot the messenger, but your electricity bills are set to increase on June 1. Yes, again. Electric utilities in the state will adjust a portion of their monthly bills next month to account for the higher cost of electricity on the regional market, ... See more

For the past year, the five Pennsylvania Public Utility commissioners have been trying to figure out how they feel about the data center wave. So has everyone else, from residents whose monthly utility bills have skyrocketed, to local utilities preparing ... See more