Episode for July 19, 2024: Mine cleanups, chemical recycling and synchronous fireflies
Release Date: 07/19/2024
Episode for November 21, 2025: Ohio River plan, trash instruments and Three Mile Island
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Episode for November 14, 2025: Expanding coal mining in Pa.
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Episode for November 7, 2025: Saving bats, hunting microplastics & "litterbugs"
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Episode for October 31, 2025: Invasive fish exchange
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Episode for October 24, 2025: Fire as a conservation tool
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Episode for October 17, 2025: Chemical pollution along the Mon
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Episode for October 10, 2025: Swimming in the Mon, steel pollution regs & dam removals
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Episode for October 3, 2025: Fracking waste in the Mon
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Episode for September 26, 2025: How dirty is the Mon?
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Episode for September 19, 2025: The Mighty Mon(ongahela River)
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info_outlineThis week, a stream polluted by an old coal mine at a former golf club is getting cleaned up thanks to a land trust and a new pot of federal money. Plus, we have news about why it's hard for states to access other federal mine reclamation money. We also talk with an author of a new report that says chemical recycling of plastics isn't all it's cracked up to be for the economy or the planet. We head to a festival celebrating a very special population of fireflies in Pennsylvania that flash in a pattern.
We have news about Pa.'s budget, heat islands in Pa. cities, and a new dark sky park in the works.