Latest by Kevin Begos
Published on August 19, 2014 - Page 12
PITTSBURGH — One of the biggest new electric transmission line proposals in decades is turning into a debate over fracking, renewable energy and the...
Published on April 27, 2014 - Page 27
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh may have been built around the steel and coal industries, but the once-sooty city now features a beautiful downtown river...
Published on December 31, 2013 - Page 1
INDIANA, Pa. — For a time it looked like the Jimmy Stewart Museum wasn’t going to make it. It’s in the actor’s hometown of Indiana, Pa., — an hour’s...
Published on September 9, 2013 - Page 4
PITTSBURGH — State agencies, environmentalists and the federal government are raising alarms about proposed legislation in Pennsylvania that could...
Published on August 26, 2013 - Page 4
PITTSBURGH — A project examining the local health impacts from natural gas drilling is providing some of the first preliminary numbers about people...
Published on July 20, 2013 - Page 4
PITTSBURGH — A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process...
Published on June 25, 2013 - Page 16
GETTYSBURG (AP) — As gunshots ravaged the bodies of tens of thousands of soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg, military doctors responded with a...
Published on April 28, 2013 - Page 34
PITTSBURGH — Wind energy installations almost doubled in Pennsylvania last year, but the industry still provides only about 1 percent of the state’s...
Published on March 12, 2013 - Page 4
PITTSBURGH — Private landowners are reaping billions of dollars in royalties each year from the boom in natural gas drilling, transforming lives and...
Published on November 27, 2012 - Page 4
PITTSBURGH — As a natural gas drilling boom sweeps Pennsylvania and other states, conservation groups are debating whether it makes sense to work...