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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
Clairton Coke Works fire: What are the health effects of sulfur dioxide exposure?
Environmental Health News, sulfur dioxide
By Kristina Marusic
Allegheny County Health Dept. Issues Air Quality Alert to Clairton Residents
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
By Don Hopey
Emission goals are meaningless without taking more action
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
LTE By Nora Johnson
UPCOMING EVENTS
Franklin Park Borough Council Legislative Meeting
Jan 14, 2019The Franklin Park Borough Council will hold a public hearing on the lease to drill/frack for gas under Linbrook Park. (see google map at: https://goo.gl/maps/56oaEJtJnv32 the park…
The Petrochemical Invasion of Western PA
Jan 15, 2019The Petrochemical Invasion of Western PA Its environmental consequences and What Can Be Done about It. Tuesday, January 15, 2019 at 7:00 pm Unitarian Universalist Church of the South Hills…
Dirty, Dangerous, and In Your Backyard
Jan 24, 2019“Dirty, dangerous, and in your backyard” Norfolk Southern Railroad is accelerating plans to raise bridges in our communities in order to run longer double-stacked trains along a…
Cancer and the Environment Symposium: Priorities for Research, Policy, and Clinical Practice in Southwest Pennsylvania
Jan 29, 2019Cancer and the Environment
BREATHE BLOG
Rethinking Plastic in Our Future
Patricia DeMarco is a native of Pittsburgh with a doctorate in Biology from the University of Pittsburgh. She has spent a 30-year career in energy and environmental policy in both private and public sector positions, including Commissioner of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska and Demand Side Manager for the Connecticut Municipal Electric Energy Cooperative. She was the Executive Director of the Rachel Carson Homestead Association and Director of the Rachel Carson Institute at Chatham University.
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Dozens of testimonies tonight overwhelmingly against the Franklin Park Borough Council's proposal to frack in Linbrook Park. #livestream @BreatheProject #NoPetroPA #Fracking #AirQuality @FoodAndWaterPA https://t.co/R9vvUGWTgf
Join us on TONIGHT at 7pm at the Unitarian Universalist Church in the South Hills for The Petrochemical Invasion of Western PA. @NoPetroPA @BreatheProject https://t.co/rMDK6ivwrn
TONIGHT! Get informed. Get connected. Get active. There is a petrochemical invasion underway and we need to build up the resistance: https://t.co/Ogk18TkJIl @BreatheProject @foodandwaterPA @aghcocan
Clairton Coke Works fire: What are the health effects of sulfur dioxide exposure?
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via @KristinaSaurusR @EnvirHealthNews
EPA hits 30-year low in failing to prosecute polluters. https://t.co/YeYUOHHNlM
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Catch the Mt Lebanon event live!
NoPetroPA
The Petrochemical Invasion of Western PA: Its Environmental Consequences and What Can Be Done about It.
Event sponsored by The Izaak Walton League of America, Allegheny County Chapter. Details at: nopetropa.com/2018/12/20/event-the-petrochemical-invasion-of-western-pa/
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Franklin Park residents continue to fight back on fracking.
Pittsburgh suburb is deciding whether to allow fracking beneath local park - Breathe Project
breatheproject.org
The Breathe Project is a supporting organization of the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies with generous funding support from the Heinz Endowments.Pittsburgh pediatrician Dr. Deborah Gentile found that 36% of her young #Clairton patients with persistent asthma had decreased lung function yesterday. Kristina Marusic
ehn.org
The region remains under a health advisory due to high levels of sulfur dioxide pollution.High sulfur dioxide levels worry Mon Valley residents. The weather the week of the holidays was milder. Children played outdoors during the holidays.
Clairton Coke Works fire: What are the health effects of sulfur dioxide exposure?
ehn.org
22 Pittsburgh neighborhoods are under a health advisory for the pollutant following a fire at the U.S. Steel plantGov. Wolf's emission policy must address the toxic emissions that will erase our region's air quality gains and make people sick.
Emission goals are meaningless without takingmore action
post-gazette.com
More plastic factories along the Ohio River, upwind from Pittsburgh, are being planned.REPORT YOUR AIR
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