Kate Giammarise
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Cafe and catering operation employees at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens rallied Friday afternoon, days before they are set to lose their jobs.
Aimee Dilger
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WVIA News
Tom Riese
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90.5 WESA
Katie Blackley
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90.5 WESA
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Over the holidays, the publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, John Robinson Block, opened his door to a staff photographer who had been on strike for more than two years. Two days later, he opened his home again to WESA to talk about what happened. -
Roughly 450 volunteers are needed to serve as greeters and tax preparers at sites across Allegheny, Fayette, Greene, Washington and Westmoreland counties. -
Steel has traditionally been made with coal, which emits large amounts of carbon dioxide, and making it currently accounts for 10% of global CO2 emissions. -
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States on Monday sent its long-awaited report to President Joe Biden, a longtime opponent of the deal. Both Biden and President-elect Donald Trump oppose the merger and have vowed to block it. -
The grant program promised money to people promoting Pennsylvania’s beer industry. But awardees were routinely denied their full grants, and now the state is quietly making changes. -
Hundreds of U.S. Steel workers gathered in the frigid cold at the Clairton Coke Works Thursday to rally support for the company’s sale to Nippon Steel. -
With U.S. Steel’s proposed sale to Japanese firm Nippon Steel in peril, local officials are making a final attempt to build support for it — while other backers hope Gov. Josh Shapiro will weigh in as well. -
Steel production, which usually heavily uses coal, is estimated to account for as much as 10% of global emissions of carbon dioxide, the key driver of global warming. -
The signs at Nippon Steel read: “The world through steel,” underlining why Japan’s top steelmaker is pursuing its $15 billion bid to acquire U.S. Steel. -
The U.S. Department of Energy has issued a $303.5 million loan authorization to New Jersey-based Eos Energy Enterprises, which has manufacturing facilities in Turtle Creek, Pa.