The Allegheny Front show

The Allegheny Front

Summary: Each week, The Allegheny Front, an award-winning public radio program hosted by Matthew Craig, explores environmental issues and the natural history of Western Pennsylvania and beyond with interviews, feature stories and commentary.

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 Episode for June 30, 2017 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:58

In this episode, we look at a loophole in Pennsylvania's environmental justice program. Plus, we learn about care gardens. And, we try to pinpoint the sweet spot for development on the Ohio River.

 Episode for June 23, 2017 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:57

In this episode, a conversation about race, class and environmental health. Plus we visit a nonprofit trying to give a voice to people who believe fracking is affecting their health. And if you're confused about whether or not non-stick cookware is safe to use--don't throw out your pots and pans just yet--we've get some advice from an expert.

 Episode for June 16, 2017 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:57

In this episode, we look into what a loss in federal funding could mean for the Great Lakes. Plus, a researcher's new theory about pollution and the fracking industry. And, while the Trump administration champions fossil fuels, the solar industry continues to boom.

 Episode for June 9, 2017 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 29:22

This week, we continue our series Hazardous to Your Health. We hear from community activists who are literally sick of industrial pollution and are looking for solutions from people who've been through it. Plus, an environmental lawyer says Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Climate agreement shouldn't surprise anyone--just look at some of his other policies. And is a new coal plant bucking the industry trend?

 Episode for June 2, 2017 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:57

This week we begin a new series, Hazardous to Your Health. We'll visit two communities near Pittsburgh--each with a history of industrial pollution. And we'll talk with the people who live there about how their attitudes toward nearby Coke plants--and their emissions--are changing

 Episode for May 26, 2017 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:57

In this episode, we follow the natural gas pipeline and float down the Ohio River to bring you some of our favorite award-winning stories from the last year. Plus, President Trump promised to build a big, beautiful wall, but the cost might be greater for biodiversity than the price tag indicates.

 Episode for May 19, 2017 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:57

Monarch butterflies are in big trouble. What can you do to help them? Plus there's pushback as nuclear energy struggles to stay relevant. Also some kids are so fed up with the President and Congress failing to act on climate change that they are suing. And finally, the world waits while Trump decides whether to break the U.S. commitment to the Paris climate agreement.

 Episode for May 12, 2017 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:57

In this episode, we go inside a hack-a-thon for cleaner water and investigate what the Trump administration means for public lands. Also, a climate scientist reminds us that the fossil fuel industry is following big tobacco's playbook.

 Episode for May 5, 2017 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:57

This week on The Allegheny Front, we look at new opportunities for miners in renewable energy. Plus more traditional environmental jobs are also paying off in coal country. And using data collected over years to understand new bird breeding behavior.

 Episode for April 28, 2017 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:58

This week, we hear voices on the environment from vastly different places. We talk to a writer in the coalfields of Kentucky, and go on an expedition with a sound artist capturing vibrations at the bottom of the Allegheny River. Plus we ask the big questions to Jared Diamond, a scientist who also happens to have a Pulitzer.

 Episode for April 21, 2017 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:58

Think Earth Day was started by a group of tree-hugging hippies? That’s just part of the story. In this hour-long special, we explore the past and present of Earth Day—from the man who gave Earth Day its name, to how businesses today are using Earth Day as a clever marketing ploy.

 Episode for April 14, 2017 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:58

In this episode, we dig into some of Pennsylvania's deepest lessons in environmental history — from the '70s activists who gave Pittsburgh its cleaner air to the lost history of African-American environmentalism.

 Episode for April 7, 2017 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:58

In this episode, we visit a petrochemical hub on the Gulf Coast to see what Pennsylvania's own looming chemical boom might look like.

 Episode for March 31, 2017 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:57

In this episode, we continue our series on Pittsburgh's lead problem with a look at the best ways for protecting you and your family from lead in soil, water and your home.

 Episode for March 24, 2017 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:57

In this episode, we explore how cost-cutting may be to blame for high levels of lead in Pittsburgh's drinking water and take a look at an effort to update federal lead rules.

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