The gas well drilling industry and a Greene County sewer authority are asking the state to lift limits on discharges of gas well waste water into the river even though the Monongahela River continues to carry unusually high levels of dissolved solids. (Today)

Oil and gas industry executives will testify alongside government officials today on the future of Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale natural gas field. (11/18/2008)

State Department of Environmental Protection tests show levels of microscopic contaminants are high again in a low-flowing, 70-mile stretch of the Monongahela River that serves as the water source for 350,000 people. (11/17/2008)

BEIJING -- A dirty brown haze sometimes more than a mile thick is darkening skies over vast areas of Asia, the Middle East, southern Africa and the Amazon Basin, changing weather patterns around the world and threatening health and food supplies, the U.N. reported yesterday. (11/14/2008)

Big drills roared at Northview Heights last week, their truck-mounted bits boring 300-foot-deep wells in the rocky earth, seeking neither oil nor gas, but only access to the subterranean temperatures that promise to warm, cool, and save money. (11/10/2008)