In September 2024, the Allegheny County Board of Health (ACHD)  recommended to Allegheny County Council that operating permit fees charged to polluting companies be increased. This increase would provide funding for the Board of Health to better enforce air-quality regulations.  County Council may be poised to vote on the recommendation at its upcoming meeting on...

Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Disaster Along with ICJB, the five Bhopal-based survivors’ organizations seek your support to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the deadliest corporate massacre in history, as they continue to confront state apathy and the corporate crimes of Dow Chemical. Please reach out to us if you are interested...

By John Graham, Clean Air Task Force A temperature inversion is that phenomenon where warmer air above traps cooler air – and pollutants in the area – down at ground level.  Due to its geography and industrial activity, the Pittsburgh area experiences some of the worst inversion impacts in the country.  Other notable cities with...

By Glenn Olcerst, Rail Pollution Protection Pittsburgh In just two days of National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) hearings on the East Palestine disaster, we learned six reasons why Norfolk Southern can’t be trusted to set safety standards, or to police their own operations.  Recognizing that Norfolk Southern’s is in many respects the best of the...

Reprinted from PA Environmental Digest Blog, Jan. 2, 2023  By Cat (Cathy) Lodge, Washington County Resident My family’s home is in Washington County and we have more Marcellus and Utica Shale natural gas industrial facilities than any other county in Pennsylvania. Marcellus shale drilling in Pennsylvania began two decades ago. Counties across the state have...

Southwestern Pennsylvania could have a brighter and healthier future — if only our state and region made better economic investments. After all, you get what you pay for. Instead, the region is on a path to a dead-end by pursuing a futile, harmful fossil-fuel based economic strategy. Just last month, Shell’s massive polyethylene resin plant...