Pittsburgh

Cleansing the Air at the Expense of Waterways

Father Rodney Torbic, the priest at the St. George Serbian Orthodox Church, lives across the road from Hatfield’s Ferry and…

6 years ago

How Privatizing Water Systems Costs Taxpayers — & Endangers Them

Illustration by Lisa Lee Lucas for Heavy A yearlong investigation by Heavy found that privatized water management has been a…

6 years ago

How a private water company brought lead to Pittsburgh’s taps

Credit: AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar “The levels in Pittsburgh are comparable to those reported in Flint” In the summer of…

6 years ago

U.S. Steel dumps more toxic chromium near Lake Michigan, faces lawsuit

Six months after U.S. Steel dumped a plume of toxic metal into a Lake Michigan tributary, the company quietly reported…

6 years ago