Julie Grant got her start in public radio at age 19 while at Miami University in Ohio. After studying land ethics in graduate school at Kent State University, Julie covered environmental issues in the ...

An environmental engineer is starting a new act as a storyteller and educator for local waterways. A state legislator in Ohio wants to bring back the state’s elk. We take a peak into the springtime ...

When researchers took smoking out of the equation, lung cancer rates dropped much more than in counties with cleaner air ...

U.S. Steel’s new owner gets poor marks in climate rating for steel industry ...

Dozens of new data centers have been proposed in Pennsylvania. Some residents and local governments in those communities are struggling to handle the boom with existing ordinances and little ...

The new owner of U.S. Steel fared poorly in a new scorecard measuring how companies in the sector are paring back their climate pollution. Nippon Steel ranked second from the bottom of 18 companies ...

Pennsylvania regulators are deciding whether to give Shell’s ethane cracker a new air pollution permit. Some residents say the plant is making the air there worse. An environmental group wants a ...

Even in wintertime, hikers don’t have to step off the trail in Frick Park to see telltale signs of deer. Narrow trees bear the jagged marks of buck rubs, where male deer have dug down into the living ...

This story was originally published on March 3, 2017. Turkey vultures — sometimes called buzzards — are large, dark, hawklike birds with long, broad wings that often soar in groups. Vultures may have ...

A Pennsylvania environmental group is calling for a moratorium on data center development until lawmakers can adopt stricter policies. Penn Future called for a pause on data center development across ...

This story comes from our partners at WHYY. In an effort to tackle rising electricity rates connected to the expansion of data centers, a recently proposed Pennsylvania rate case settlement includes ...