Kathy Knauer
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Executive Producer of The Allegheny Front, a radio program about the environment produced in Pittsburgh
Articles by Kathy Knauer
Now’s the time to stand up for The Allegheny Front
Today we’re kicking off our biggest fundraiser of the year: NewsMatch, a nationwide campaign to support nonprofit newsrooms like ours. From now until December 31, we have an opportunity to boost the impact of donations to The Allegheny Front, which will help power our newsroom into 2026. Here’s how it works: NewsMatch will match your new monthly donation 12 times or double your one-time gift, all up to $1,000. That means that, with NewsMatch, we can earn up to $30,000.
The Allegheny Front wins Edward R. Murrow Award, Golden Quills
The Allegheny Front has been recognized for excellence in journalism with several regional awards this week. Our series from January 2024, commemorating the one-year anniversary of the East Palestine train derailment, was recognized with a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Series.
What Pennsylvania voters say about the environment
By Kathy Knauer, Julie Grant, Reid Frazier and Kara Holsopple of The Allegheny Front and Sydney Roach, Rivka Wolin and Erell Williams of WPSU On Election Day, we talked with voters in several Pennsylvania counties about the environment and climate change – what they think about them and how those issues might have affected their ballot choices.
The Allegheny Front receives national grant for filling critical gap in local news
Today, The Allegheny Front was named a Press Forward grant recipient! We join this inaugural, historic cohort of more than 200 local newsrooms across the country that are filling critical information gaps and working in service of our communities. Press Forward is a nationwide movement to strengthen communities by reinvigorating local news. Since 1991, we have been on the frontlines of environmental journalism in our region, which includes cities, suburbs and rural communities.
Episode for August 2, 2024
Now 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.
Scientist questions EPA's handling of East Palestine cleanup: 'They should have tested correctly'
When Andrew Whelton first learned that Norfolk Southern would be burning off five rail cars worth of vinyl chloride that had derailed in East Palestine and that people would be allowed back into the town, he became alarmed.
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Join journalists Julie Grant of The Allegheny Front and Kristina Marusic of Environmental Health News for a discussion about their series: Pollution’s Mental Toll: How air, water and climate change shape our mental health. Their investigation into the mental health impacts of air and water pollution in western Pennsylvania found alarming evidence that residents throughout the region are likely suffering changes to their brains due to pollution in the surrounding environment.
Jersey Shore’s fishing industry wonders if it can coexist with wind farms
It’s a busy day at Dockside Packing in Atlantic City. Men banging mallets against steel make repairs to the Mary Vee. A ship’s captain works a crane that offloads cages of Atlantic surf clams, each cage containing 2,000 pounds of them, dredged from the ocean bottom off the coast. LISTEN to the story https://www.alleghenyfront.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/AF100821_SP_NJWind.mp3 Clammers like Charlie Quintana are back from two days at sea on the Christy.
Young People Take To The Streets Of Pittsburgh, Demanding Climate Action
Julie Grant / The Allegheny Front Juliana Hunt held a sign that read "Stop Fracking" at the Strike for Climate Justice rally. Pittsburgh area high school and college students and others joined activists worldwide calling for climate justice and an end to fossil fuels. Nearly 150 protestors gathered at Schenley Plaza in Oakland Friday and marched downtown to the City-County Building, stopping traffic and chanting slogans like “No coal, no oil. Keep your garbage in the soil” along the way.
Young People Take to the Streets of Pittsburgh, Demanding Climate Action
Juliana Hunt held a sign that read "Stop Fracking" at the Strike for Climate Justice rally. Photo: Julie Grant / The Allegheny Front Julie Grant contributed to this report. Pittsburgh area high school and college students and others joined activists worldwide calling for climate justice and an end to fossil fuels. Nearly 150 protestors gathered at Schenley Plaza in Oakland Friday and marched downtown to the City-County Building, stopping traffic and chanting slogans like “No coal, no oil.
Game Commission Says It's OK To Feed Birds Again
Katie Blackley / 90.5 WESA The Pennsylvania Game Commission has lifted its recommendation to stop feeding birds and take in birdbaths. The agency made the announcement on Friday on its website. People can place bird feeders and birdbaths back outside, after cleaning with a 10% bleach solution. The agency had recommended that people stop feeding birds after dead or sick songbirds were reported in 10 states including Pennsylvania and Washington D.C. since late May.
Episode for February 5, 2021
Photo: Kimon Berlin / Flickr (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/) What you need to know about Allegheny County meeting federal air standards for the first time ever. Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf’s budget address doesn’t mention climate, a gas well spews wastewater in Ohio, and New River Gorge rock climbers reckon with racist route names. US Supreme Court to hear a pipeline case.
As Election Nears, Pennsylvania Farmers Have a List of Climate Actions for Politicians
Centre County dairy farmer Ron Reese says he's only been affected "on the margins" by climate change. Photo: Anne Danahy / StateImpact Pennsylvania Climate change and weather patterns may not be the issues getting the most attention in this year’s election. But, for farmers, they’re always at the front. While politicians and political hopefuls say they want to listen to farmers and support them, their views on climate change vary.
Pa. House Speaker Turzai accepted $11K flight from businessman with fracking-related companies
Pennsylvania Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, pictured here on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019 in Harrisburg, Pa. His spokesperson said he was saving taxpayers money by accepting a plane ride from a businessman. Matt Rourke / AP Photo Pennsylvania House Speaker Mike Turzai, an outspoken advocate for the state’s fossil fuel industry, accepted an $11,000 plane ride last year from a Pittsburgh-area businessman involved in two fracking-related companies.
Episode for June 5, 2020
#Blackbirdersweek on social media is a place for Black people to share their joy of nature. We talk with an environmental justice leader about how the environmental movement can address racism. Ticks that carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease are in Pittsburgh parks. Pa. House Speaker Mike Turzai accepted $11K flight from businessman with fracking-related companies.
Episode for February 7, 2020
Gabi Hughes is a environmenal educator at Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve, operated by the Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania. Photo: Andy Kubis/The Allegheny Front We head out on a hike for a different perspective on winter. Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf wants to fight climate change but this support of petrochemicals will make that harder to achieve. A new poll splits support in Pa. for a fracking ban.
Ohio Group Worried About Water Pollution From Ethane Cracker Gets State Meeting, But Little Action
This photo of plastic pellets was taken on Ferrycraigs Beach on the Firth of Forth, Scotland. The Ohio group is concerned about this type of pollution coming from the proposed Belmont County ethane cracker along the Ohio River.
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Kerri Bond and Jodi Carter. Photo: Brian Peshek A decade ago, people in Ohio hadn’t heard much about fracking for natural gas in their state. But since then, the gas industry has literally changed the landscape in parts of eastern Ohio, from countryside, to what some describe as an industrial zone. For some people, that has meant new jobs or payments to lease their mineral rights.
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