If all goes as planned, the “Dryerson” label may no longer be so apt. At this year’s Dryerson Festival, people came out to celebrate Ryerson Station State Park, remember Duke Lake and look forward to improvements announced in the near future. This was the 19th year for the festival, ...
The Mine Safety and Health Administration office in Waynesburg has been taken off the chopping block. Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor announced the reversal of lease terminations listed on the Department of Government Efficiency website in March for 34 MSHA offices. In Pennsylvania, ...
In 1994, the Tri-State Citizens Mining Network was formed due to the impact of longwall mining on the community and the environment. By 2007, they had their first paid staff, changed their name to the Center for Coalfield Justice (CCJ) and expanded their work to examine fracking practices. ...
Two Center for Coalfield Justice staff members have returned from Busan, South Korea, where world leaders and organizations gathered last week to hammer out details on a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution. But negotiations on what would have been the first-ever United ...
Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Twenty years after the first gas well was fracked on the Renz farm in Mount Pleasant Township, Washington County, a body of evidence points to the possible ...
The popularity of Center For Coalfield Justice’s annual Seed Swap is growing faster than a zucchini in summertime. Saturday’s event, held at Citizens Library in Washington, drew more than 200 visitors for an afternoon of swapping and collecting seeds and bulbs, and learning about a ...
