Years ago, city officials tried to make PGH a more inclusive place for refugees, who curbed population loss and boosted the economy. My reporting shows they now face hate speech and the possibility of detention. Some are leaving the U.S. for third countries. www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-r... 1/

Shell Polymers Monaca, the petrochemical plant in Beaver County, has emitted harmful nitrogen oxide above legal levels for almost three years without any clear enforcement action from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

NOx can irritate eyes, nose, throat and respiratory system. In larger amounts it can cause respiratory and cardiovascular distress, and eventually contribute to asthma and cardiovascular disease. Shell's ethane cracker pumps it out www.publicsource.org/beaver-count...

With Minneapolis still on edge, hundreds of Pittsburghers turned up for training on what to do when ICE acts here www.publicsource.org/frontline-di...

it’s early but it seems like maybe this is relevant again (wrote it last week fml)

With just days to go before Weiss Memorial Hospital was scheduled to lose Medicare funding, concerns swirled Thursday about whether the hospital was about to close.

Air quality alerts issued Thursday in Illinois because of Canadian wildfire smoke marked the latest bout in an increasingly common summer occurrence. The alert covers 34 Illinois counties designated as having unhealthy air for all residents.

A Northwestern Medicine research lab has found a usually harmless virus in brain samples from Parkinson’s patients. The idea that Parkinson’s could be linked to a virus had been theorized for years, but this is the first study to pinpoint a specific virus as more common in Parkinson’s patients.

just blurted out in class "yes, you have to cite where you got your info. in a world in which lying loudly is the only thing that seems to get rewarded, citing your sources is an act of resistance" and folks, I really believe that.