The Allegheny Front
Every week, our 29-minute podcast brings you all the environmental news and stories to keep you in the know in Pennsylvania and beyond.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 110
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
September 5, 2025 Episode: Health improved after coke plant closure; glass recycling and a cool tourist attraction
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This week on The Allegheny Front, we talk to a researcher who found that health impr…
Episode for August 29, 2025: PA farmers, steelworkers and elk
Farmers at an agricultural summit voiced concerns over how new tariffs might affect their customers who buy locally. With air monitors, an environmental group is publishin…
Episode for August 22, 2025
A computer scientist wanted to build a watch using a living organism. What ended up working was slime mold. An environmental history book about Pennsylvania aims to includ…
Episode for August 15, 2025: Deadly explosion at U.S. Steel coke plant
An explosion at a U.S. Steel coke plant outside of Pittsburgh killed two workers and sent 10 to the hospital. We'll hear a worker's first-hand account of the incident and …
Episode for August 8, 2025: Air pollution relief on hold
The Trump administration has paused new rules that would have reduced air pollution from steel mills drifting into surrounding communities. What advocates and residents wh…
Episode for August 1, 2025: Throwing out the Endangerment Finding
Electricity prices are rising, and many are pointing the finger at the new energy demand created by data centers. An energy expert on where this is all heading. The Trump …
Episode for July 25, 2025: What happens to solar now?
Solar installations on homes have been booming because of tax breaks from the Inflation Reduction Act. Now, those incentives are going away. Pennsylvania could also lose $…
Episode for July 18, 2025: Energy for data centers
President Trump was in Pittsburgh whipping up support for building data centers and the gas infrastructure to power them. But many worry that electricity ratepayers will g…
Episode for July 11, 2025: AI's carbon footprint
Business and industry leaders are talking a lot about the possibilities of AI, but the technology also comes with environmental costs. A longtime critic of the natural gas…
Episode for July 4, 2025: Swimmer's itch & fracking report anniversary
Swimmer's itch is a rash you can get from swimming in lakes, so researchers working in the Great Lakes have tried to eradicate it by treating ducks that carry the parasite…
Episode for June 27, 2025: More energy, faster
Pennsylvania leaders say the state needs more energy, so there’s a plan to create a board to streamline the siting of new power projects. Environmental groups and others a…
Episode for June 20, 2025: Future of EVs and a plan for the Ohio River
The Ohio River Basin provides millions of people with water, but it's one of the most polluted river systems in America. A plan to clean up the Ohio River goes public. Are…
Episode for June 13, 2025: Coal mine expansion, cuts to mine safety, cicadas
This week, the approval of a coal mine expansion in Western Pennsylvania’s Laurel Highlands has residents worried. Also, more than 100 mine researchers and engineers at a …
Episode for June 5, 2025: Circumnavigating the Great Lakes
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After Traci Lynn Martin’s mom died, she knew she couldn’t keep putting off her dream: becoming the first person to kayak around the Great Lakes i…
Episode for May 30, 2025: River otters and mental health in ag
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River otters have made a comeback in Pennsylvania. Veterans are building a sunflower garden for a community, but also helping each other adjust to non-military life in the…
Episode for May 23, 2025: Hitting the trail
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A new outdoor recreation area in a Pittsburgh park is meant to include people of all abilities. When hikers make it to the halfway point on the Appalachian Trail in Pennsy…
Episode for May 16, 2025: Reforesting mineland and environmental legislation
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A nonprofit hopes to help landowners reclaim mineland in Appalachia by planting trees and selling carbon credits. Their first partner is the Western Pennsylvania Conservan…
Episode for May 9, 2025: The rollercoaster of federal environmental grants
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Last year, workforce development organizations in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia were awarded a $15 million EPA grant to train people in landscaping and tree pruning, and to …
Episode for May 2, 2025: Endangered species, black bears and solar at the airport
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The future of the Endangered Species Act is in question. A bill to amend it was recently introduced in Congress, and environmentalists are taking issue with it. Attacks by…
Episode for April 25, 2025: Cement's impact on climate, sustainable fashion and student gardeners
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Cement is the glue that keeps concrete together, and it has a big carbon footprint. That's a problem for a warming planet. A Johnstown-based mining company has gotten the …