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U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works is the largest coke-making facility and the United States and the largest polluter in Allegheny County. The community is organizing to ensure this plant meets it health-based air emissions limits.
EMAILCURRENT CLAIRTON 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.
PennFuture's Toxic Neighbor Campaign
Emissions from a developing, massive Shell petrochemical plant in Beaver County would contain a toxic mix of pollutants – particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and volatile organic compounds, such as acrolein, benzene, toluene and naphthalene – that exacerbate symptoms of asthma and cause cancer.Pennsylvania taxpayers will contribute $1.65 billion in taxpayer dollars toward the construction of the plant which will bring in 600 permanent full-time jobs. This equates to a subsidy of $2,670,000 per job.The plant will emit three times the pollution level of Clairton Coke Works.
Coke Projection in Pennsylvania
Air pollution from the coke oven industry impacts the health of residents of Southwestern Pennsylvania, including Pittsburgh, Allegheny County and beyond. This Clean Air Council PA Coke Ovens website provides information regarding these air pollution impacts from the coke oven industry in general, as well as specific facilities in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
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 Dave Smith ([email protected]) to join a group or find out more information.
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Earthworks
Earthworks ORI Detects Plumes of Pollution from Irvin Peachtree Flares
March 12, 2019Earthworks’ investigation with optical gas imaging (OGI) cameras on March 11, 2019 detected significant plumes of hydrocarbons and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) coming from the flares. The OGI camera is an industry-standard tool for visualizing air pollution from oil and gas development, and Earthworks’ camera operators are trained and certified to differentiate these gases from ...
Mark Dixon/ Blue Lens
CLAIRTON BLOG
CREATE Lab Launches New Mon Valley Breathe Cam
For those of us living in Southwestern Pennsylvania, pollution from industrial plants, diesel exhaust and wood smoke in Allegheny County still poses a significant threat to our health, making the air we breathe dirty and people in our communities sick. Residents here have a significantly higher risk of developing cancer due to this exposure. Our air was ranked 8th worst in the United States in 2018 by the American Lung Association and residents in Allegheny County rank in the top 2 percent in the nation for cancer risk from pollution. Fortunately, there are two simple things you can do to...
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The Human Toll – Risk and Exposure in Gas Lands
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
By David Templeton and Don Hopey
