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3 days ago | 
wvia.org | Julia Fraser
U.S. Steel, Ebensburg Power Company and Keystone-Conemaugh Projects are among the companies that have requested from the Trump administration exemptions from certain air quality standards for toxic pollutants, such as mercury and benzene.
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3 days ago | 
wesa.fm | Julia Fraser
U.S. Steel, Ebensburg Power Company and Keystone-Conemaugh Projects are among the companies that have requested from the Trump administration exemptions from certain air quality standards for toxic pollutants, such as mercury and benzene.
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1 week ago | 
wesa.fm | Julia Fraser
On a muggy May morning on the Eliza Furnace Trail, a runner rounds the bend into the parking lot headed to the drinking fountain. Parched, she pauses next to it, stops her watch, presses the silver button on the side of its yellow pedestal and the water gurgles into an arc. It’s on. Sweet relief. This time last year, though, there was little relief to be found.
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2 weeks ago | 
wesa.fm | Julia Fraser
A perfect storm of storms swept across southwestern Pennsylvania Tuesday. It wasn’t a tornado. It wasn’t a microburst. It was a line of fast-moving thunderstorms that began in western Ohio and strengthened as they roared across Ohio, northern West Virginia and through southwestern Pennsylvania.
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2 weeks ago | 
alleghenyfront.org | Julia Fraser
A widespread power outage rippled through Spain, Portugal and parts of France on Monday. Trains stopped in their tracks, passengers evacuated underground metros in the dark, traffic lights went black and airports, including Barcelona, Madrid and Lisbon, lost power delaying flights and stirring travel chaos.
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2 weeks ago | 
wesa.fm | Julia Fraser
A widespread power outage rippled through Spain, Portugal and parts of France on Monday. Trains stopped in their tracks, passengers evacuated underground metros in the dark, traffic lights went black and airports, including Barcelona, Madrid and Lisbon, lost power delaying flights and stirring travel chaos.
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2 weeks ago | 
wesa.fm | Julia Fraser
Pittsburgh Water tapped $193 million in contracts to begin construction this fall on a major slice of their $470 million overhaul of the city’s pumping and distribution system.
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3 weeks ago | 
wesa.fm | Julia Fraser
The transformation of a 120-year-old office building into apartments — some overlooking the Monongahela River — is underway at 4 Smithfield Street in Downtown Pittsburgh. Renovations to the outside of the historic building including repairs to the facade and adding another exit stairwell got a needed stamp of approval Tuesday from the Pittsburgh Planning Commission. What is now an office building with only a few occupants is on track to become Smithfield Lofts.
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3 weeks ago | 
wesa.fm | Julia Fraser
After six months of traffic cones and detours near Schenley Park in Oakland, an end to some of the congestion is down the road. The Charles Anderson Memorial Bridge is set to open to traffic next year and engineers are finalizing a plan to fix up the nearby Panther Hollow Bridge. Last fall, work began on a $56 million project to repair the Charles Anderson Bridge — a span that carries the Boulevard of the Allies between Schenley Park and Oakland that’s been closed since February 2023.
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4 weeks ago | 
wesa.fm | Julia Fraser
The future of public transit in Pittsburgh rests on the votes of state lawmakers in Harrisburg. On Tuesday, members of the state Senate Democratic Policy Committee — Nick Miller, Jay Costa, Wayne Fontana and Lindsey Williams — held a hearing in downtown Pittsburgh to map out a route that avoids sharp public transit cuts and a fare hike.
