Pennsylvania

How Privatizing Water Systems Costs Taxpayers — & Endangers Them

Illustration by Lisa Lee Lucas for Heavy A yearlong investigation by Heavy found that privatized water management has been a…

7 years ago

How a private water company brought lead to Pittsburgh’s taps

Credit: AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar “The levels in Pittsburgh are comparable to those reported in Flint” In the summer of…

7 years ago

Oil and gas wastewater radioactivity persists in Pennsylvania stream sediments

Photo: Treated oil and gas wastewater flows into a stream in western Pennsylvania. A new Duke study finds stream sediments…

7 years ago

DEP using water insects to measure waterway health

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is making public aquatic life sampling results from across the state. The data is…

7 years ago

Farmers’ efforts to help environment benefit Lancaster County farms

Mill Creek flows through a riparian buffer on the Mahlon Stoltzfus farm in New Holland. Trees and shrubs along the…

7 years ago