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Family planning funding on pause, impacts NEPA maternal health organization

The Trump administration's scrutiny of federal funding keeps hitting home. A freeze on federal funding for a reproductive health program has left Maternal and Family Health Services struggling to continue serving Pennsylvania.

Save Carbon County held a meeting at the Nesquehoning Recreational Center to give an update on its lawsuit against Panther Creek Electric Generating Facility on June 12. A map shows where wind and alleged emissions from the plant blows in Carbon County. From left to right: Lucy Freck, Linda Christman, Carol Etheridge.

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Nesquehoning residents report odors from tire burning at cryptomining plant

Isabela Weiss | WVIA News | Report for America

Donna King says she smells burning rubber wafting around her Nesquehoning home every day.

Reading & Northern Railroad switcher locomotive rests inside the company's new diesel facility on its Nesquehoning Campus. The railroad in 2022 acquired the former KME Properties fire apparatus plant in the borough, and is in the process of converting the site and buildings into an operations center that will include a new passenger station for excursions to points north, including Pittston. Once the diesel maintenance facility is complete, it will mark the first time in over 75 years that locomotives have been maintained and repaired in Carbon County, company officials said.

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Reading & Northern remaking Nesquehoning factory complex for passenger rail trips, maintenance

Roger DuPuis | WVIA News

A shuttered industrial complex in Carbon County is being reborn as a hub for railroad operations that will include a new station for passenger train excursions.