Breathe Project Reports

Cutting Through the Smoke: Why the Allegheny County Health Department Must Turn the Corner on Decades of Weak Clean Air Enforcement

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Published 2019
Air Quality, Alzheimer’s, Asthma, Autism, birth outcomes, Cancer, Cardiopulmonary Disease, Children, Coking / Coke Ovens, Dementia, Environmental Justice, Leukemia, Lung, Lymphoma, Neurological, Obesity/Diabetes, Public Health, Respiratory
Southwestern Pennsylvania

Summary

To ensure clean, healthy air for all residents of Allegheny County, ACHD must recognize the lessons of past
enforcement failures and act promptly and aggressively against illegal polluters.

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