Reid Frazier

Inside the Carnegie Library in Braddock, Pennsylvania, Ron Ferchak explained what a hot strip mill does. Imagine an assembly line, three football fields long. You put in a steel slab on one 40 feet long, and out the other end comes a very thin, very long ... See more

Inside the Carnegie Library in Braddock, Pennsylvania, Ron Ferchak explained what a hot strip mill does. Imagine an assembly line, three football fields long. You put in a steel slab on one 40 feet long and out the other end comes a very thin, very long s... See more

A Texas-based energy company wants to expand a natural gas processing facility in western Pennsylvania that has had multiple environmental violations since opening in 2020. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection(DEP) has proposed issuing ... See more

A federal appeals court ruling late last month upheld a key Biden administration air quality standard for fine particulate matter, or soot. The new rule, finalized in 2024, means that Pittsburgh and other parts of Pennsylvania could soon be out of complia... See more

Environmental groups are criticizing Nippon Steel’s recent investments in its Pittsburgh-area U.S. Steel mills for continuing the company’s reliance on coal to produce steel. As a result, they say, the region’s air quality is unlikely to improve. Nippon S... See more