Anya Litvak
Energy Reporter at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Energy reporter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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1 week ago |
post-gazette.com | Anya Litvak
The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority says it needs to raise rates by 33% to fund its debt service, as the nonprofit utility continues an aggressive rehab of its century-old system, some of it mandated by legal settlements with environmental authorities. The company filed its rate case with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission on Wednesday, launching a months-long process that typically results in a settlement, with the PUC granting a smaller increase than originally requested.
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1 week ago |
post-gazette.com | Anya Litvak
The Pittsburgh Job Corps, a free education and training program, is one of 99 such centers closing this month after the U.S. Department of Labor, which operates the 60-year-old Job Corps program, said that it was “no longer achieving the intended outcomes that students deserve.” Word came on Thursday that the federal government was “pausing” the operation of these centers, which are run by contractors and serve low-income and unhoused students 16 to 24 years old, A few hundred people filed...
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post-gazette.com | Anya Litvak |Steve Bohnel
Justin Guido/Post-Gazette HARRISBURG — The U.S. Department of Energy has ordered another power plant, this time an oil and gas plant in Pennsylvania, to keep its turbines running through the hottest summer months as a precaution against electricity shortfalls in the 13-state mid-Atlantic grid. The department's order to the grid operator, PJM Interconnection, regarding the Eddystone power plant just south of Philadelphia on the Delaware River, is the department's second use of federal power...
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2 weeks ago |
post-gazette.com | Steve Bohnel |Anya Litvak
SALT LAKE CITY — In the southeastern Utah desert famous for red rock arches and canyon labyrinths, the long-dormant uranium mining industry is looking to revive under President Donald Trump. Hundreds of abandoned uranium mines dot the West's arid landscapes, hazardous reminders of the promise and peril of nuclear power during the Cold War. Now, one mine that the Trump administration fast-tracked for regulatory approval could reopen for the first time since the 1980s.
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2 weeks ago |
post-gazette.com | Megan Guza |Anya Litvak
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