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Cupcakes for Good!

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Check out Ace of Cupcakes' photos of dog-related cupcakes they made for a fundraiser, and these Flickr photos of 100+ cupcakes a woman baked to benefit the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society. For more information, go to the Duncan Hines National Bake Sale Contest site. Selling cupcakes to benefit animals seems to be a popular theme.

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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

Fast Company Tech

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

Fast Company Tech

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.