Faulty Gas Fitting Caused Deadly Chocolate Factory Explosion: Safety Board December 12, 2024 By Michael Rubinkam Cascading failures involving a corroded steam pipe and a defective natural gas fitting caused a powerful explosion in 2023 at...
How Underground Abandoned Mines Pose Danger When Land Collapses December 10, 2024 By Michael Rubinkam and Matthew Brown Swaths of Pennsylvania and many other states are honeycombed with old, unstable mines that can cause the earth to suddenly...
Museum to Sell Painting in Settlement With Heirs of Jewish Family That Fled the Nazis August 30, 2024 By Michael Rubinkam A Pennsylvania museum has agreed to sell a 16th century portrait that once belonged to a Jewish family that was...
Jury Sides With Teacher in Suit Against District Over Jan. 6 Rally August 26, 2024 By Michael Rubinkam A Pennsylvania school district violated a teacher’s constitutional rights by falsely suggesting he took part in the U.S. Capitol riot...
Ohio Supreme Ct.: Chicken Wings Advertised as ‘Boneless’ Can Have Bones July 30, 2024 By Michael Rubinkam Consumers cannot expect boneless chicken wings to actually be free of bones, a divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled last week,...
Vendor That Mishandled Pennsylvania Virus Data to Pay $2.7M in Whistleblower Case May 9, 2024 By Michael Rubinkam A large staffing firm that performed COVID-19 contact tracing for Pennsylvania and exposed the private medical information of about 72,000...
Judge Orders Pennsylvania Utility Board to Produce Chocolate Factory Blast Records April 19, 2024 By Michael Rubinkam Pennsylvania utility regulators must turn over inspection records to the National Transportation Safety Board as part of the federal agency’s...
Pennsylvania County Suing Oil Industry Over Climate Change April 2, 2024 By Michael Rubinkam A large suburban Philadelphia county has joined dozens of other local governments around the country in suing the oil industry,...
Banned for 12 Years, Fracking Poised to Make a Comeback in Pennsylvania’s ‘Gasland’ December 22, 2023 By Michael Rubinkam A year after pleading no contest to criminal charges, one of Pennsylvania’s leading natural gas companies is poised to drill...
Gas Leak From Bad Fitting Cited in Chocolate Factory Explosion Where 7 Died July 20, 2023 By Michael Rubinkam Natural gas leaked from a defective fitting at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory where a powerful explosion leveled one building, heavily...