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The latest from East Palestine: EPA takes charge of the wreck site. The AP reports. Local residents, distrustful of official tests, conduct their own. Emily Cochran reports for the NY Times. PA residents near the Ohio border feel “forgotten

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Just how bad was it? Questions and concerns swirl following a Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, some 50 miles northwest of Pittsburgh. The carcinogen, vinyl chloride, and butyl acrylate were deliberately

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Toxic tanker chemicals burn. Residents in and around East Palestine, Ohio, near the Pennsylvania border, were ordered to "leave immediately or face the possibility of death" as vinyl chloride and other toxic chemicals were purposely burned

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Newsguild fights another day: An administrative law judge from the National Labor Relations Board ruled that Post-Gazette ownership “didn’t negotiate in good faith, illegally imposed working conditions and unlawfully surveilled workers

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Modern-day company town. UPMC has monopoly power and is creating a modern-day company town. Those are some of the allegations in a new report from the nonpartisan, nonprofit American Economic Liberties Project: "Critical Condition: How UPMC

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Cops resume traffic stops. Despite a 2021 ordinance that keeps city cops from pulling drivers over for things “like an expired registration sticker or a poorly secured license plate,” Pittsburgh Police have resumed traffic stops for minor

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Fitz deflects on ACJ. Rich Fitzgerald, 2022 Pittsburgh Magazine “Pittsburgher of the Year,” is having a rough start to 2023. The Allegheny County Executive deflected questions about the Allegheny County Jail in an interview with WESA's

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Shell plastic plant pollutes: That didn't take long. Shell Chemical's enormous, pollution-spewing plastics plant has already exceeded air pollution limits for smog-producing volatile organic chemicals (VOCs). "Each 12-month period that

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