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We’re back. But the news never stops. (Unless maybe there’s a printers strike.) Here’s some Pittsburgh news you may have missed: Union Calls for PG Boycott. After seeing their healthcare cut, printers and other production workers on strike

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Any day now, the 386-acre Shell petrochemical facility 30 miles northwest of Pittsburgh will begin taking ethane from locally-fracked natural gas and blast it with enough heat to crack it into ethylene. It will make up to 1.6 million tons

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What is music, anyway? It’s the type of question a man with a Ph.D in jazz is prone to ponder. “People say music is a universal language – and that's true,” says Ben Barson, founding member of the Afro Yaqui Music Collective. “But in a way

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Frack ban reactions. How did the natural gas industry react to Allegheny County’s ban on natural gas drilling in parks? Not too well. One publication, Marcellus Drilling, called Council “unhinged” for their “idiotic” ban, adding “welcome to

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UPDATE (July 27, 5:54 PM): On Wednesday afternoon, Senator Joe Manchin announced a deal with Senate Democrats on a reconciliation package that includes climate spending. A Now or Never organizer tells the Independent that the deal

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Several legal watchdogs, including a racial justice group founded at the request of John F. Kennedy and the nation’s oldest libertarian legal foundation are closely monitoring a recent federal lawsuit challenging Pittsburgh’s inclusionary

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No testing for forever chemicals. Oliver Morrison reports that, despite longstanding knowledge that PFAS and so-called “forever chemicals” have been dumped at Pittsburgh International Airport property for decades, nearby soil and drinking

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