Episode for October 11, 2024: EVs and the presidential election
Release Date: 10/11/2024
Episode for December 26, 2025: Here comes the sun
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Episode for December 19, 2025: Bears!
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Episode for December 12, 2025: A safe place for hellbender salamanders
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Episode for December 5, 2025: Fracking waste in landfills
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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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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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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...
info_outlineFormer President Trump has been claiming there is a Biden electric vehicle mandate. There isn’t one, but the rhetoric has some EV advocates concerned. A new study shows support for leasing land for solar projects in Pennsylvania farming communities. Volunteers are knocking on doors to get people who care about the environment and climate change to vote.
Also, lead drinking water pipes in the U.S. must be removed within 10 years. A new survey looks at Pennsylvanians' attitudes toward fracking. A Weirton plant that makes batteries to store wind and solar energy gets a $150 million grant from the Department of Energy.