Episode for August 2, 2024: How Kamala Harris can appeal to Pennsylvania climate voters and more
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Episode for November 28, 2025: Apples, chestnuts and eggs
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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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It's our end-of-year membership drive! Become a member today. Our nonprofit newsroom is powered by our members. Now through December 31st, every donation up to $1,000 will be matched. One-time donations will be doubled and monthly donations matched 12 times. Another $1,000 will be unlocked if we gain 50 new members at any amount. Or send us a check to: The Allegheny Front, 67 Bedford Square, Pittsburgh, 15203. And thanks! The Pennsylvania natural gas company CNX is suing a California-based news outlet for defamation in federal court over an article the news site published about...
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Episode for October 31, 2025: Invasive fish exchange
The Allegheny Front
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Episode for October 24, 2025: Fire as a conservation tool
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We’re asking our listeners to become members with a donation of any size. Your membership will help us keep the lights on and the environmental news flowing. We’re independent and non-profit, and we don’t get money from WESA, WPSU or any other radio station. So we must turn to you, our listeners, for support. Take action today so we can continue to keep you informed. Or send us a check to: The Allegheny Front, 67 Bedford Square, Pittsburgh, 15203. And thanks! On this week's episode: Conservationists used fire to manage habitat in an Allegheny County meadow. The...
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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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We’re in the midst of our Fall Member Drive. We’re asking our listeners to become members with a donation of any size. Your membership will help us keep the lights on and the environmental news flowing. We’re independent and non-profit, and we don’t get money from WESA, WPSU or any other radio station. So we must turn to you, our listeners, for support. Take action today so we can continue to keep you informed. Or send us a check to: The Allegheny Front, 67 Bedford Square, Pittsburgh, 15203. And thanks! On this week's episode: This week on The Allegheny Front,...
info_outlineNow that Vice President Harris is on her way to becoming the Democratic nominee for president, how can she make sure people who care about climate change vote for her? Pennsylvania is looking for ways to create wildlife corridors so animals like bobcats and box turtles can safely move. Plus, a Pittsburgh environmental activist is celebrating a milestone for the grassroots lecture series she founded 12 years ago. We have stories about a new venture in Philadelphia that focuses on sustainable seafood, and how a researcher figured out lanternflies can hitch rides on vehicles, even ones going 60 miles per hour.
We have news about the Appalachia hydrogen hub and planting native vegetation along Pa. highways.