The new tax credits for home solar and energy efficiency you …
WEBAug 23, 2024 · It’s been two years since the nation’s historic climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act, was signed.The IRA is the biggest investment in clean energy projects in U.S. history, and many Americans don’t know about it even though some of its programs could directly benefit consumers, like the Residential Clean Energy Tax Credit.
$90M federal grant awarded for the largest solar project in …
WEBMar 28, 2024 · Climate Change Energy. The Department of Energy is awarding $90 million to a company that has promised to build what would be the largest solar project in the state on a former coal mine in central Pennsylvania. The 402-megawatt solar farm would be the largest in the state. The award goes to Delaware-based Mineral Basin Solar LLC, a …
Our Three Rivers - The Allegheny Front
WEBOur Three Rivers. Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers define its geography and help shape its identity. Yet defining Pittsburghers own relationships to the Monongahela, Allegheny and Ohio Rivers is an ever-shifting process. For over a century, the Three Rivers helped fuel Pittsburgh’s boom, creating a culture where residents saw their rivers as ...
New law requires native vegetation on Pennsylvania highways
WEBAug 16, 2024 · A new law requires the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to plant native vegetation along state highways. PennDOT must select native plants that will thrive in plant hardiness zones and under environmental conditions along highways. Andrea Ferich, President of the Pennsylvania Native Plant Society, says native plants will …
How are Pennsylvania’s lawmakers doing when it comes to the …
WEBSep 4, 2024 · The Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania recently updated its environmental scorecard for all 253 members of the General Assembly. It’s keeping a close eye on who wins this November to see what laws will be passed in the next two years. Molly Parzen, the group’s executive director, told The Allegheny Front’s Reid Frazier that the ...
The Psychology of Littering - The Allegheny Front
WEBJan 8, 2016 · The Psychology of Littering. Littering continues to be a big environmental problem in cities. And one Pittsburgher from the city’s North Side neighborhood is taking the problem personally. Meda Rago regularly picks up trash to keep her street clean. And she really isn’t kidding when she says she’s found some pretty weird things chucked ...
The Complicated History of the Kinzua Dam and How It Changed …
WEBFeb 12, 2020 · In 1956, plans for the Kinzua Dam — which for the previous two decades had been vague and nebulous — began to move forward. Twenty years earlier, in the infamous St. Patrick’s Day Flood, the entire Ohio River Basin had …
Here’s How to Tell if You Have Lead Pipes in Your Home
WEBMar 24, 2017 · 1) Flush the water. This is especially a good idea if you know the water has been sitting in your plumbing for six hours or more. The more the water runs, the less time it has to come into contact with any lead in your plumbing. To flush water from a faucet that might have lead, let the water run for 30 seconds or so.
What’s Pennsylvania’s wildfire season been like so far?
WEBAug 1, 2023 · About a month later, another fire happened at the Game Refuge Trail near Shade Mountain that burned 162 acres, according to Dildine. The largest fire happened on April 12 in northeastern Pennsylvania. Dubbed the Crystal Lake Fire, it burned well over 4,000 acres of territory, resulting in the temporary closure of the northeast extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Searching for the Pawpaw’s Indigenous Roots
WEBAug 16, 2024 · It was early August, a fresh summer afternoon in Jackson County, Ohio at the Leo Petroglyph, which is a huge rock carved with images of animals and humans. The sounds of insects in the dense woods combined with the sounds of a nearby creek. “These pawpaws are on the edge of the forest,” Chris Chmiel said …