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CURRENT CHESWICK CAMPAIGNS
Taking On Industrial Pollution and Greenhouse Gases
Title V of the Clean Air Act requires “major sources” of air pollution to obtain operating permits from the EPA or a state or local agency authorized to issue these permits. In Allegheny County, the Allegheny County Health Department in Allegheny County decides these permits. Join GASP, PennEnvironment, Clean Air Council, Clean Water Action, Environmental Integrity Project and the Breathe Project in the effort to clean the region’s air and reduce greenhouse gases.
GASP's “No Idling” Diesel Campaign
Diesel exhaust poses a serious risk to Allegheny County residents, causing asthma attacks and asthma onset, coughing, chronic bronchitis, health attacks and even premature death. Work with GASP to reduce toxic diesel pollution from vehicles including school and transit buses, garbage trucks and more. Post No Idling signs at your school.
CAC's Southwest Pennsylvania Neighbors for Clean Air
The goal of the Southwest PA Neighbors for Clean Air initiative is to create 100 neighborhood groups of 10 members throughout the region so that residents can learn about and take action on the most pressing environmental issues in Southwest Pennsylvania. In the nine months since the first leader training session, CAC has trained over 80 group leaders, and 20 groups now meet regularly. Contact Jay Walker ([email protected]) to join a group or find out more information.
COMMUNITY VOICES
What happens in the Mon Valley doesn’t stay in the Mon Valley
August 6, 2019By Albert Presto Assistant Research Professor, Mechanical Engineering Carnegie Mellon UniversityWhat we put into the air doesn’t stay in one place. This may seem obvious to anyone who has stood downwind of a smoky campfire or watched the wind push around dust and leaves. But this fact often seems ...
Pollution Victimizes Children
May 14, 2018By Dr. Ned KetyerYesterday we reviewed new research studying the effects of air pollution exposure during pregnancy and the adverse health outcomes that can result — chromosomal damage, birth defects, complications of pregnancy — and impact children’s lives. But exposure after birth to components of air pollution, especially to invisible fine particulate matter (PM2.5), can have ...
Our Leaders Must Live Up to Their Responsibility To Protect What Citizens Have Entrusted Into Their Care. We Must Step Up to Defend Our Rights Before They Are Taken Away.
April 2, 2018By Matt Mehalik, Executive Director of the Breathe Project, April 2, 2018Consider the words Abraham Lincoln offered in his concluding remarks in his Annual Message to Congress on December 1, 1862:"We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?' but, 'can we all do better?'… No personal significance, or insignificance, can ...
VIDEOS
What happens in the Mon Valley doesn’t stay in the Mon Valley
August 6, 2019By Albert Presto Assistant Research Professor, Mechanical Engineering Carnegie Mellon UniversityWhat we put into the air doesn’t stay in one place. This may seem obvious to anyone who has stood downwind of a smoky campfire or watched the wind push around dust and leaves. But this fact often seems ...
Pollution Victimizes Children
May 14, 2018By Dr. Ned KetyerYesterday we reviewed new research studying the effects of air pollution exposure during pregnancy and the adverse health outcomes that can result — chromosomal damage, birth defects, complications of pregnancy — and impact children’s lives. But exposure after birth to components of air pollution, especially to invisible fine particulate matter (PM2.5), can have ...
Our Leaders Must Live Up to Their Responsibility To Protect What Citizens Have Entrusted Into Their Care. We Must Step Up to Defend Our Rights Before They Are Taken Away.
April 2, 2018By Matt Mehalik, Executive Director of the Breathe Project, April 2, 2018Consider the words Abraham Lincoln offered in his concluding remarks in his Annual Message to Congress on December 1, 1862:"We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?' but, 'can we all do better?'… No personal significance, or insignificance, can ...
BREAKING NEWS
Research shows thousands could be saved with better air quality standards
NPR-StateImpact
Marie Cusick
