Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The closure of a coal plant in Pittsburgh was tied to a drop in air pollution and a decrease in emergency ...

In 2015, when Karen Grzywinski heard that the Shenango Coke Works near Pittsburgh was closing after 54 years in operation, she didn’t believe it. Neither did her neighbors, some of whom had joined her ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The closure of a coal plant in Pittsburgh was tied to a reduction in respiratory hospitalizations and ED visits.

Pittsburgh, in its founding, was blessed and cursed with two abundant natural resources: free-flowing rivers and a nearby coal seam. Their presence made the city’s 20th-century status as a coal-fired, ...

For decades, the Huber Breaker towered over Pennsylvania’s coal region as one of the most advanced coal processing plants in the world. Built in 1939, the massive structure could process thousands of ...

The closure in January 2016 of one of Pittsburgh's biggest coal-processing plants led to immediate and lasting declines in emissions of fossil fuel-related air pollutants. These in turn were linked to ...

Microwave-assisted coal processing harnesses electromagnetic energy in the microwave band to induce rapid, volumetric heating within coal seams. By converting microwave radiation into thermal energy ...

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Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Pittsburgh, in its founding, was blessed and cursed with two abundant natural ...