Breathe Project
Breathe Project is a clearinghouse for information on air quality in Pittsburgh, southwestern Pennsylvania and beyond. We use the best available science and technology to better understand the quality of the air we breathe and provide opportunities for citizens to engage and take action.
BREAKING NEWS
When the Kids Started Getting Sick
The New Yorker
By Eliza Griswold
Fractured: The body burden of living near fracking
Enviromental Health News
By Environmental Health Network Staff
Amid lawsuits, Delaware River Basin Commission makes fracking ban permanent
The Philadelphia Inquirer
By Andrew Maykuth
UPCOMING EVENTS
Bioplastic: Hype or Hope
Mar 11, 2021Learn how new scientific advancements in this industry may hold promise to phase out fossil fuel and petrochemical-based materials and provide new economic development possibilities….
Reimagine Jobs Showcase – Regenerative Agriculture
Mar 24, 2021Join the ReimagineJobs.org team for the third event in our 2021 virtual series focusing on sustainable job and career opportunities in Southwest Pennsylvania. Each month we will…
Learn to be a Smoke Reader: EPA Method 9 Opacity Certification Program
Mar 29, 2021The Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) is covering the cost of the training put on by Eastern Technical Associates. Please know that spots for this…
BREATHE BLOG
Accountability for Our Future: The Shell Cracker Plant Will Threaten Our Health. Have Beaver County Residents been Betrayed?
By Rachel Meyer, BCMAC, Voices for Change
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STUDY: Even small reductions in #soot and #smog (#pm2.5 and #ozone) reduced asthma attacks in children. https://t.co/NLtmwuJMTn
You can check out the February RAMP network report (and all previous months!) - https://t.co/rK2NZpbGPQ
@GASPPgh @inversion_doc @HeinzEndow @BreatheProject
"Nearly 10 years and more than 1,000 natural gas wells later, Greene County, PA appears to be no better off financially than where it started."
@jamiemartines for @SpotlightPA on the failed promise of the Appalachian fracking boom:
https://t.co/nDaMmuQXTs
Family reps met with @pahealth to ask that the study be expanded to include facilities that handle fracking waste, which can contain high levels of radioactive materials. https://t.co/Hp4AFYc5MY)
A proposed legislative revision could allow major polluting facilities in Ohio to operate under aging air regulations with outdated pollution control technology, endangering frontline communities. Learn more 👉 https://t.co/kIxNV3ucFW @ovec @RiverResidents
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Standing up to a powerful industry the way the DRBC did is laudable — but the fight isn’t over. If fracking is too harmful for children in New York to live near, and too risky for the water in the Delaware basin, bans on fracking should go hand-in-hand with measures to ensure that children and water elsewhere aren’t contaminated. ow.ly/E4on50DTAnL
Fracking ban in Delaware River Basin is a historic win, but it’s time to look downstream | Editorial
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Fracking is only the first step in the lifespan of natural gas, and is far from the last step that can harm people’s health.A proposed legislative revision could allow major polluting facilities in Ohio to operate under aging air regulations with outdated pollution control technology, endangering frontline communities. Learn more 👉 bit.ly/OhioSIP @ovec @RiverResidents
Deny Indefinite Permit Extensions for Major Polluting Facilities Under Appeal
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The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA) is seeking a revision to Ohio law that would allow for the automatic extension of air permits-to-install (PTI) for major polluting facilities, potential..."Sometimes it’s a chemical stench. Sometimes it’s a burning tire smell. Sometimes, when I come indoors from taking a walk on one of the stinkier days, I have to take a rescue inhaler. Just for breathing in my local air." Thank you Amanda Gillooly! ow.ly/tRfA50DT3it
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It happens more often than it should: My fiance comes home for lunch and the first thing he says is, “It stinks again outside today.” Sometimes...Did you know Pittsburgh was the #5 most challenging place to live in the country with allergies, according to the @AAFA? Breathing in Allegheny County on bad air days is hard enough for allergy sufferers! @alleghenyhealth www.aafa.org/media/2933/aafa-2021-allergy-capitals-report.pdf
Energy from the region’s other abundant energy resource — the wind itself — that is creating jobs and much-needed tax revenues in Carbon County. ow.ly/noHh50DQnU9
Wyoming Coal Country Pivots, Reluctantly, to Wind Farms
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The tiny town of Rawlins will soon be home to one of the nation’s largest wind farms. But pride in the fossil fuel past remains a powerful force.REPORT YOUR AIR
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