Environment – Point Park News Service

Environmental Leaders Link Health Issues to Poor Air Quality in Allegheny County

April 3, 2019April 25, 2019 Allegheny County Health Department, carnegie mellon university, Jim Kelly, Mark Dixon, PennEnvironment, Pittsburgh City Council, SmellPGH, Spring 2019

A version of this story ran on Tube City Online. By Mary Shelly, Point Park News Service The number of people dying in Allegheny County from exposure to air pollution is comparable to the numbers of the opioid epidemic, a Carnegie Mellon University professor who has studied air pollution emissions, told the Pittsburgh City Council on April 2. “There’s approximately... Read More

Jackson Clark Partners Enter Hazelwood

March 19, 2018September 2, 2018

by Emma Federkeil, Point Park News Service Hazelwood community members talk about the importance of data brought in by Jackson Clark Partners. Read More

Four Mile Run is a place one could get lost

December 7, 2017December 15, 2017 Big Jim’s, Four Mile Run, Pittsburgh

Video submitted by Emma Federkeil, Point Park News Service By Lauren Ortego, Point Park News Service: Tim Weber, a bartender at Big Jim’s restaurant in Pittsburgh’s Four Mile Run neighborhood, has one distinct advantage: he grew up there. Big Jim’s greets visitors to the Run with a large brick building and the bar’s name along with – “Est. 1977” –... Read More