Some question the process by which Allegheny County has contracted with Peoples Natural Gas to provide steam to Downtown Pittsburgh buildings, allowing the county to leave a longstanding cooperative heating system.
Downtown interests are deciding whether to sell a shared heating system that the county plans to abandon, but that the city views as an asset as it pursues environmental goals.
On either side of the invisible border between North Braddock and East Pittsburgh, you can see, hear and sometimes smell the Edgar Thomson Steel Works below. Residents are divided on a fracking proposal.
EcoDistricts, a Portland-based nonprofit focused on building sustainable cities, awarded Pittsburgh with a CityMakers Award for its dedication to incorporating the EcoDistricts Protocol into city planning.
