Julie Grant
Politics and lack of teacher training are keeping climate science out of US classrooms
Young people will need to understand climate change to make informed decisions in the future. But in many school districts in the US, students receive little or no scientific information about it. Teachers who do try to bring climate science into the classroom can find themselves in trouble.
School bus pollution is dangerous, and efforts to control it are still uneven
Exhaust from diesel fuel contains thousands of chemicals and more than 40 toxic air contaminants. That’s especially dangerous for children who ride diesel-fueled school buses and wait in line among their fumes. But while efforts to cut down pollution are working, more enforcement is still needed.
A proposed Ohio gas pipeline is raising safety and property rights concerns for landowners in Ohio
Believe it or not, the Keystone XL pipeline is not the only pipeline in North America. Pipelines that carry natural gas from wells to refineries stretch hundreds of miles in the US, crossing public and private land. Many of these pipelines are planned for densely populated areas, and in some states, local opposition has been fierce.
Pipeline Raises Safety and Property Rights Concerns for Landowners
Pipelines that carry natural gas from well to refinery stretch hundreds of miles in the US, crossing public and private land. But as the Allegheny Fronts Julie Grant reports, landowners who learned that the proposed Nexus pipeline from southeast Ohio to Canada was to run across their property and carried risks of explosion, they banded together to protect their safety and property rights.