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This tiny Pennsylvania community was deemed ‘expendable.’ So toxic waste keeps flowing

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YUKON, Pa.When government inspectors arrived at the hazardous waste landfill here in 2023, they found themselves in a barren and alien landscape carved from western Pennsylvanias green countryside. Pennsylvania is the countrys second-largest producer of natural gas , and much of the industrys solid waste ends up at landfills such as this one.

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This Pennsylvania landfill sends radioactive waste into a nearby creek—and fracking has only made it worse

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In a rural pocket of western Pennsylvania, along the leafy banks of Sewickley Creek, a small, jagged pipe juts just above the waterline, its cement casing carpeted in moss. Colleen ONeil of the Mountain Watershed Association fixes a crooked sign posted near a landfills discharge pipe that flows into Sewickley Creek in Yukon, Pennsylvania.

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Billions of dollars in federal funding at stake as Trump demands compliance from U.S. universities

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President Donald Trump’s administration has been using the funding spigot to seek compliance with his agenda, cutting off money to schools including Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania. All the while, universities across the country are navigating cuts to grants for research institutions.