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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.
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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.
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 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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Breathe Cam Clairton
July 10, 2018Breathe Cam provides high-resolution panoramas of Pittsburgh’s skyline and other views in the region – including Clairton – to help residents learn more about the air they breathe. The zoomable live camera feed and historical time-lapses enable you to view our horizon in amazing detail from sky-high vantage points.Through this ...
Long Plume at Clairton Coke WorksLooks like a 13 minute plume coming out of Clairton Coke Works yesterday caught on the CREATE Lab's Breathe Camera. Disappointing but not surprising. Find it and make your own online! https://breatheproject.org/learn/breathe-cam/
Posted by Inversion Documentary on Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Inversion Documentary / Mark Dixon
Long Plume at Clairton Coke Works
June 13, 2018Looks like a 13 minute plume coming out of Clairton Coke Works yesterday caught on the CREATE Lab's Breathe Camera. Disappointing but not surprising.
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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Elementary school students in Clairton are having asthma flare-ups following the Clairton Coke Works fire
Environmental Health News
By Kristina Marusic
