Gov. Wolf called a last-minute GOP vote to oppose oil and gas air pollution rules “a disgrace” for risking $1 billion in federal highway funds for Pa. unionprogress.com/2022/11/20/air…

Nobody uses "infrastructure." Everybody uses roads & bridges, parks & public water. Our Sunday edition has stories by our Laura Legere and @EdBlazina on a threat to millions in regional transportation projects and on the state's infrastructure report card: unionprogress.com/2022/11/20/air…

If you'd like to read Pittsburgh news NOT published under a man who would slap you in the face with a bag of Wendy's without your consent, check out Pittsburgh Union Progress 📰. unionprogress.com/subscribe/

In community news, our Laura Legere updates the saga of federal sanctions threatening hundreds of millions of dollars for Pennsylvania highway projects. "The Wolf administration will publish a long-delayed air pollution rule as an emergency measure ..." unionprogress.com/2022/12/01/wol…

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Fort Worth Star-Telegram have been recruiting journalists to help break strikes at their respective papers. poynter.org/business-work/…

We're excited to unveil our Strike Solidarity Pledge. There, you can see which Pittsburgh officials & organizations are turning supportive words into action. They're pledging: ✊No words, no subs for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ✊Words AND subs for Pittsburgh Union Progress 📰 pghguild.com/strike-solidar…

Today's top story: It's based on leaks -- from old abandoned oil and gas wells that dot Allegheny County. As our Laura Legere reports, new federal funding will fix 10 of them, mapped by our @JennyScarface: unionprogress.com/2022/12/18/dec…

PUP Sunday read: Our Laura Legere reports on PA Department of Environmental Protection's candid assessment, “The conventional oil and gas industry’s recent record of compliance with Pennsylvania law is simply not good.” unionprogress.com/2023/01/01/sta…

For today's lead story, our co-editor Jon Moss worked with our Laura Legere on one about power plants facing $2 billion in penalties after many serving Pennsylvania and 12 other mid-Atlantic states failed to run during the frigid Christmas weekend storm: unionprogress.com/2023/01/13/una…

We do all this while we're on strike. Today is the 100th day for newsroom workers such as PUP's star visual artists Pam Panchak, Alexandra Wimley and Steve Mellon. They provide a look back with our stalwart Stephen Karlinchak: unionprogress.com/2023/01/25/tod…

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette journalists will have been on strike for 100 days this week! I wrote about our strike, and why the PG is worth fighting for, in Belt Magazine beltmag.com/in-pittsburgh-…

For more on what I've been up to, and not up to, for the past 100 days and 30 years, we go to Nieman Lab's Sarah Scott Scire, who stood on the street with us one cold night and who does a great job laying out a complicated saga that could end relatively simply: niemanlab.org/2023/01/the-fi…

EXCLUSIVE--NewsGuild President Jon Schleuss supports PittsburghPG strikers sent a letter to DOJ antitrust division's Jonathan Kanter today, asking him to investigate the increasingly consolidating Pittsburgh news market. Latest Bloomberg Law news.bloomberglaw.com/antitrust/news…

BREAKING: An administrative law says that the Post-Gazette violated the National Labor Relations Act by failing to bargain in good faith with the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh 🗞. The judge has ordered the paper to begin bargaining within 15 days of the union's request, and rescind changes...1/

Our Laura Legere reports on how PA Department of Environmental Protection wants Commonwealth Court of PA to toss out a case in its early stages that is seeking to dismantle a state climate rule by alleging it will not be effective enough: unionprogress.com/2023/02/09/pa-…

Gov. Josh Shapiro's Super Bowl trip shines a light on its sponsor -- Team PA, a nonprofit that counts energy companies like Shell as "investors" while undertaking studies for the state government that promote Shell's interests. Via Kate Huangpu and I spotlightpa.org/news/2023/02/p…

At noon Oct. 18, about 40 of us newsroom workers went on an unfair labor practice strike against the Post-Gazette because it was breaking federal law. Five months later, it's still breaking the law and spending a lot of money to do so. We are tired, poorer. But we're still right.

Homer City Coal-Fired Power Plant To Close In Indiana County; Low Price Of Natural Gas, High Price Of Coal, Regulatory Burdens, RGGI Cited As Causes  [PaEN]   tinyurl.com/3vtefaw2

Our Sunday read -- by our Laura Legere and Alexandra Wimley with Jen is ON STRIKE -- is part 3 of a Pittsburgh Media Partnership collaborative project on pollution and misinformation in greater Pittsburgh: unionprogress.com/2023/04/09/wer…

With it being a holiday, you may have missed the Sunday PUP and stories on college bowling, Pittsburgh's first Black meteorologist's next gig, artsy Route 28 sound barriers and a partner project on local pollution and misinformation: unionprogress.com