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Salad will survive climate change. But at what cost?
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Salad will survive climate change. But at what cost?

In order to maintain American's year-round demand for salad, more growers are looking into moving delicate crops like baby greens indoors.
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New ‘Toxic 10’ list outlines worst industrial polluters in Allegheny County
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New ‘Toxic 10’ list outlines worst industrial polluters in Allegheny County

The 10 biggest industrial air polluters in Allegheny County released higher levels of toxic emissions in recent years.
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Zug Island: Reflections on an industrial icon in President Biden’s utopian future
planetdetroit.org

Zug Island: Reflections on an industrial icon in President Biden’s utopian future

Reading Time: 4 minutes An “idled" steel mill hangs by a thread as President Biden bets big on his futuristic infrastructure plan We're in a period of transformation, it seems. I added the qualifier because in the era of Covid-19, not much is certain. We're barely four years past former President Donald Trump's retreat from environmental protection.

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U.S. Steel ends proposed shale gas well project at Edgar Thomson steel mill
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U.S. Steel ends proposed shale gas well project at Edgar Thomson steel mill

Three-year-old proposal to drill and frack shale gas wells along Turtle Creek never got state or local permits and is abandoned.

Causes
Dirty dollars

Dirty dollars

Accused money launderers left a path of bankrupt factories, unpaid taxes, shuttered buildings and hundreds of steelworkers out of jobs.

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U.S. Steel's $1.5 billion investment in Mon Valley Works in question?
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U.S. Steel's $1.5 billion investment in Mon Valley Works in question?

U.S. Steel Corp. CEO David Burritt delivered some surprising comments Friday about the Pittsburgh-based steelmaker's plans to spend some $1.5 billion upgrading its Mon Valley Works.

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Petition demands information about air pollution at U.S. Steel's Edgar Thomson Works
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Petition demands information about air pollution at U.S. Steel's Edgar Thomson Works

The Allegheny County Health Department is being asked to detail its plans to reduce harmful pollution from the Braddock mill.
ORIGINAL REPORTING
A climate-themed version of Catan sparks new conversations

A climate-themed version of Catan sparks new conversations

Opinion: Building climate resilience fails to protect human health

Opinion: Building climate resilience fails to protect human health

Montana Youth Climate lawsuit

Montana’s Supreme Court debates climate law's constitutionality

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Hollywood’s quest to cut carbon emissions

Hollywood’s quest to cut carbon emissions

Some US cities are promoting themselves as climate refuges despite concerns

Some US cities are promoting themselves as climate refuges despite concerns

Supreme Court to rule on key environmental cases

Supreme Court to rule on key environmental cases

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Deadly heat waves

Deadly heat wave sweeps across the US, claiming lives

Amid LNG’s Gulf Coast expansion, community hopes to stand in its way

Amid LNG’s Gulf Coast expansion, community hopes to stand in its way