Cumberland is testing whether its abandoned coal mines can become a town-wide geothermal network that supports redevelopment, economic growth, and lower emissions.

Jackson, a grassroots organizer for GASP, the Greater-Birmingham Alliance to Stop Pollution, spoke at the hearing as a ...

Residents living near U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works are hoping for a departure from decades of disinvestment and persistent pollution.

Six months after two deaths at the massive Clairton Coke Works, U.S. Steel’s new owner inherits the plant’s safety challenges and pollution violations. Nippon’s plans haven’t yet been released.

Six months later, workers remain rattled and community concerns about air pollution from the plant are heightened.

U.S. Steel's Clairton Coke Works in Clairton, Pa., on Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. (Quinn Glabicki/Pittsburgh's Public Source via AP) CLAIRTON, Pa. (AP) — For Don Furko, Aug. 11, 2025, was a normal shift.

Quinn Glabicki/Pittsburgh’s Public Source via AP Former U.S. Steel worker Jonathan Ledwich holds his old hard hat at the pizza shop he now owns in Trafford, Pa., on Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. CLAIRTON, Pa ...

Steelworker Renee Hough stands at U.S. Steel's Clairton Coke Works in Clairton, Pa., on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026. (Quinn Glabicki/Pittsburgh's Public Source via AP) CLAIRTON, Pa. (AP) — For Don Furko, ...

A high-profile House Democrat is accusing Attorney General Pam Bondi of "spying" on her search history while she pored through Jeffrey Epstein-related documents, after Bondi was seen at a combative ...

CLAIRTON, Pa. (AP) — For Don Furko, Aug. 11, 2025, was a normal shift. Until it became the shift he would never forget. At 10:47 a.m., U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works outside Pittsburgh — a sprawling ...

On Aug. 11, 2025, an explosion at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works outside Pittsburgh — a 392-acre riverside industrial facility and the largest of its kind in the Western Hemisphere — killed two U.S.