Politics newsinteractive.post-gazette.com Burning for bitcoin Some power generators — finding they can make more money supplying electricity to Bitcoin-mining operations than selling it to the grid — are shifting focus.
Causes qz.com Powering bitcoin mining with waste coal isn't a green idea How much environmental karma do you earn if you mop up one type of pollution by creating another?
Solutions www.post-gazette.com First draft of Pa. carbon-cutting rules aims to save waste coal plants Other coal plants fear joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative will shut them down early. Nuclear plants see it as a lifeline.
A controversial facility that would process plastic waste to be burned in steel mills has been cancelled
Pennsylvania health advocates say Trump’s first 100 days in office have caused “100 harms” to local communities
