This story appears as part of Newsapalooza at Point Park University, Sept. 26-28 – celebrating local journalism in southwestern Pennsylvania. This fun event brings the public together with 30 ...
It’s been a year since Pennsylvania’s largest coal-fired power plant in Homer City shut down because of stiff competition from natural gas and renewables.
This story was first published July 12, 2024. At age 20, Jeremiah Baltzer started working at the Homer City Generating Station in the early 2000s. He liked his job as a union carpenter building ...