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Pittsburgh Selects Sustainable Startups Among a New Crop of Innovative Businesses

One helps companies provide “green” benefits for their employees, another provides mobile air pollution sensors and a third targets food waste.

By Jon Hurdle

View of the downtown Pittsburgh skyline at dusk, showing the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers joining to form the Ohio River. Credit: Steven Adams/Getty Images
A view of Shell Chemical's ethane cracker plant processing plant across the Allegheny River can be seen under construction Oct. 27, 2017 in Monaca, Pennsylvania. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Environmentalists Fear a Massive New Plastics Plant Near Pittsburgh Will Worsen Pollution and Stimulate Fracking

By Jon Hurdle

Impressions of an old steel factory of Pittsburgh on July 23, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Credit: Alexandre Simoes/Borussia Dortmund via Getty Images

Toxic Metals Entered Soil From Pittsburgh Steel-Industry Emissions, Study Says

By Jon Hurdle

Pennsylvania Rep. Summer Lee (D) speaks on stage about the change of the face of power in the United States after a history making number of diverse members were sworn into Congress the past elections, during a keynote discussion of the Netroots Nation progressive grassroots convention in Philadelphia on July 13, 2019. Credit: Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images

A Climate Progressive Leads a Crowded Democratic Field for Pittsburgh’s 12th Congressional District Seat

By Kristoffer Tigue

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