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    • GASPalerts: October 24, 2008
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    • Mullins Environmental Advocacy Competition
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      • Diesel News
        • Allegheny County takes step in reducing deadly diesel exhaust
        • Diesel Exhaust Kills Thousands Across Region Each Year
        • School Bus Idling Comes To A Halt
      • Diesel Campaign Take Action
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      • Comments to the Allegheny County Board of Health Concerning Proposed Regulation: ‘Diesel Powered Motor Vehicle Idling’
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    • GASPalerts: November 13, 2008
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      • GASP Comments on ACHD Permit # 0679-I001
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      • SW PA Ozone Stakeholders Group
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    • Annual Events
      • GASP & Good Friends: September 27, 2008
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      • Fall Event 2004: “Is Hydrogen in Our Energy Future?” and GASP’s 35th Anniversary
        • Fall Event 2004 Thank You and Pictures
      • Annual Meeting 2003: Becoming a Health Statistic - Clean Air Under Fire
      • Annual Meeting 2002: Drive Cleaner, Drive Greener
        • U.S. Representative Henry Waxman
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      • GASP’s 1996 Annual Meeting
    • GASP sues County over misuse of Clean Air Fund
    • Environmental Groups Sue Bush Administration Over Clean Air Rollbacks
    • Court Settlement Brings Stronger Clean Air Protection for Pittsburgh
    • 125 Groups Ask EPA to Prevent Additional Water Contamination
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      • GASP Press Release Feb. 22, 2010: GASP, Residents Speak out Against Plan to Increase Toxic Lead Emissions at Cheswick Power Plant
      • GASP Press Release Jan. 22, 2010: Liberty-Clairton Clean Air Plan Inadequate
      • GASP Press Release Nov. 16, 2009: Air Quality forecasts don’t always warn of high air pollution days
      • GASP Press Release April 13, 2009: Public Expresses Opposition to Proposed Article XXI Changes
      • GASP Press Release April 29, 2009: Fact And Fiction: Pittsburgh And The American Lung Association State Of The Air Report
    • Allegheny County Air Quality Program
      • Concerned Citizens Call on County Executive to Pledge to Support and Strengthen the Local Air Quality Program
    • Mon/Fayette Toll Road
      • Mon/Fayette DEIS Comments
      • Mon/Fayette DEIS
      • Reviewing and Commenting on the DEIS
      • Voice Your Concerns about the Mon/Fayette Turnpike
    • LTV (Hazelwood) News
    • Shenango Coke Plant on Neville Island
    • Proposed Coke Plant in Hazelwood
      • GASP Files Notice of Intent to Sue LTV
      • Public Meeting on the Proposed Non-recovery Coke Plant in Hazelwood
      • The Case Against a New Coke Plant for Pittsburgh
      • The Proposed Non-Recovery Coke Plant in Hazelwood
    • Federal/National Air Quality News
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    • Winter 2004
      • Year in Review
      • Breathing Easier in the Penn Hills School District
      • Anti-Idling Ordinance Moving Forward
      • Clean Air Under Fire
      • Air Quality Data from the Pittsburgh Supersite
      • EPA Proposal for Easing Controls on Mercury Pollution Brings Protests
      • Update on the Hays Strip Mine and Racetrack
      • Letter to the Editor
      • Thank You!
      • Spotlight on a Board Member
    • Fall 2003
      • Donora Tragedy Sparks Clean Air Standards
      • Changing our Idling Ways
      • October 7 Deadline for Mining Permit Comments
      • Bush Administration, Environmentalists Battle Over “New Source Review” Air Rules
      • Why is the Automobile Like a Smokestack?
      • GASP Survey Results
      • Spotlight on a Board Member: Walter Goldburg
    • Summer 2003
      • May 6th Proclaimed “Stop School Bus Idling” Day
      • Remembering Patricia Pelkofer: Tenacious Environmentalist and Founding Member of GASP
      • 2003 GASPer Air Congress
      • GASP Announces Environmental Advocacy Competition
      • Proposed Land Development in Pittsburgh
      • Valuing the Lives of Our Senior Population
      • Ode to Rachel
    • Spring 2003
      • GASP in Lawsuit Settlement — Delivers Additional Clean Air Protections For the Pittsburgh Region
      • GASP Joins in Legal Actions Against Rulings of EPA
      • What Am I Breathing Today?
      • The Viability of Hydrogen Powered Cars
      • Biodiesel: an Alternative Fuel
      • Mercury Rising: How Bush’s Clear Skies Initiative Will Raise Pollution Levels
      • Spotlight on a Board Member: Beth Toor
    • Winter 2003
      • GASP 2002 Year in Review from the Executive Director
      • “Drive Cleaner, Drive Greener” a Moving Event
      • The Emerging Threat to the Clean Air Act
      • Better Fuel Economy Standards Needed
      • Facts About Energy Use
      • Court Orders Expanded Vehicle Emissions Testing in Pennsylvania
      • Haze Cuts Two Ways
      • Chatham Students Use GASPer to Monitor for Diesel
      • Spotlight on a Board Member: Michael Kaizar
    • Fall 2002
      • The Citizens’ Plan: An Alternative to the Mon Fayette Toll Road
      • The Pittsburgh Supersite: Studying Air Quality in Schenley Park
      • EPA Report Cites Diesel Fumes as Probable Cause of Cancer
      • Owning a Hybrid
      • Alternatives to the American “Lawn” Part IV: Just Do It!
      • Spotlight on a Board Member: Edward Gerjuoy
    • Summer 2002
      • So What’s a Little Haze in the Air?
      • Having a Bad Air Day?
      • Critics of Bush EPA Policies Challenge Easing of Air Quality Rules
      • 2002 GASPer Air Congress
      • Citizen Smokereaders
      • Blue Vinyl
      • Spotlight on a GASP Board Member: Kate St. John
    • Spring 2002
      • Environmentalists Attack Bush Plans as Weakening of EPA’s Clean Air Controls
      • How Do You Like the Deciview?
      • Diesel Pollution and Our Health
      • Lost in the Smoke (and Mirrors)
      • Automobile Emissions Inspections in Pennsylvania
      • Recycling and Spring Cleaning
      • Alternatives to the American “Lawn” Part III: Let Your Landscape Work for You (Not Vice Versa)
      • Spotlight on a GASP Board Member: David Fowler
    • Winter 2002
      • GASP Position on the Mon/Fayette Toll Road
      • GASPer Program Starts Sixth Year in Area Schools
      • Proposal on Odor Monitoring
      • Another Cost of Coal
      • Alternatives to the American “Lawn” Part II: Pesticides
      • Spotlight on Health and Government
      • Spotlight on a GASP Board Member: Marilyn Skolnick
    • Fall 2001 (Mon/Fayette Special Edition)
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition Introduction: Economic Savior of the Mon Valley or Billion Dollar Boondoggle?
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition: Looking at the Toll Road through Seven Lenses
        • Resources: Looking at the Toll Road through Seven Lenses
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition: The Mon/Fayette and the Southern Beltway — Boon or Boondoggle?
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition: Benefits of the Mon/Fayette Toll Road to the Mon Valley and Pittsburgh Region
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition: A Better Way Into, and Out of, Town
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition: Public Participation an Issue in Transportation Spending Decisions
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition: Are There Alternatives to New Toll Roads?
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition: Why a CANTR Member Opposes the Mon/Fayette and Southern Beltway Toll Roads
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition: Traffic Congestion and Urban Development
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition: Completion of the Mon/Fayette Expressway is Essential for Our Future
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition: Oakland and the Mon/Fayette Toll Road
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition: Resolution in Opposition to a Proposed Mon/Fayette Expressway Bypass Through the Township of Wilkins
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition: Planning for the Future in Hazelwood
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition: Mayor Tom Murphy’s letter to Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition: Northern vs. Southern Routes of Mon/Fayette Toll Road
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition: Nine Mile Run Watershed Association
    • Summer 2001
      • The Mon/Fayette Toll Road: the Environmental View
      • Perspectives: Not quite there on clean air
      • Benzene and the Case for Hazardous Ambient Air Monitoring in Allegheny County
      • Your Home Landscape - Armed Warfare, Part I
      • An Update on Automobile Emissions Inspections in Pennsylvania
      • “Avoid disclosure. Deny liability.”
      • State OKs Building of Power Plant Burning Coal Wastes in Indiana Co.
    • Spring 2001
      • The Cost of Coal
      • Shenango Violations Lead to New Penalties as GASP Urges Closer Monitoring, Cooperation
      • An Appalachian Tragedy
      • Title V: Is that local factory belching or smelling? Now is the time to get involved!
    • Fall 2000
      • LTV Suffers Major Setback in Federal Court Action
      • Local Control of Air Quality Regulations Jeopardized
      • Title V Training
      • Clean Up at the Coke Plant
      • Presidency of GASP Changes Hands
    • Summer 2000
      • County Air Quality Regulations in Jeopardy
      • Air Pollution Committee OKs Smokereaders Proposal
      • Permits to Pollute
      • Municipalities Planning Code Amendments
      • Criminal Acts
    • Spring 2000
      • Supplemental Environmental Projects Urged in Shenango Settlement
      • Pennsylvania’s Power Plants Ranked Worst in Nation
      • Book Review: Environmental Risk Communication
      • Solar Energy Right Here in Pittsburgh
      • Letter to the Editor and GASP Response
    • Winter 2000
      • GASP Pursues Interests In Cases Involving USX, Shenango, LTV
      • Ozone in Allegheny County
      • Biotechnology - Discovering the Parallels
      • Dioxin: Unwanted and Unnatural
    • Fall 1999
      • GASP and EPA Take Action Against Shenango; Prospects of Coke Producer’s Merger with Antaeus Apparently Disappear
      • Out of Breath: Health Effects from Ozone in Eastern United States
      • Fall Foliage and Acid Rain in Pennsylvania: Where Have All the Colors Gone? Asks the Clean `Em Up Campaign
      • The Future of Transportation in our Region
      • Port Authority Public Hearing on Project Changes to Martin Luther King, Jr. East Busway Extension
      • Mercury on your Dinner Plate
    • Spring 1999
      • Public Concern Grows as Plans Emerge for New Neville Island Coke Production
      • Has the Sun Set on the LTV/Sun Coke Hazelwood Plant?
      • Dirty Dinosaurs: Power Plants and Pollution
      • Unsafe At Any Speed
      • As We Usher in the 21st Century, We Should Usher Out Nuclear Power
    • Fall 1998
      • Status of the Proposed LTV/Sun Coke Plant
      • Electricity Deregulation: What Should I Do?
      • EPA NOx Reductions
    • Summer 1998
      • Gypsy Moth Reflections
      • Patience is a Virtue… They Say
      • Green-e: Renewable Energy In Pennsylvania
    • Winter 1998
      • Problems with the LTV Mill are Old and Bad
      • LTV Swan Song Scenario
      • Making the Connections: Dr. Judith Johnsrud Speaks at GASP’s Annual Meeting
      • 1997, First Session 105th Congress: Environmental Voting Scorecard
      • Why Should Environmentalists Be Concerned About Transportation?
    • Summer 1997
      • The New Ozone and PM Standards: Will we breathe more easily?
      • Protecting Public Health
      • GASPER Air Congress
    • Winter 1997
      • GASP Speaker Defends Recycling
      • Environmentalists Call For Improvements in Public Access to Information
      • Russian Environmentalist Released from Prison
    • Hotline Archive
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Winter 2004

• Year in Review: Over the 2003 Landscape with GASP
• Breathing Easier in the Penn Hills School District
• Anti-Idling Ordinance Moving Forward
• Clean Air Under Fire: A Stellar and Lunar Event
• Air Quality Data from the Pittsburgh Supersite
• EPA Proposal for Easing Controls on Mercury Pollution Brings Protests
• Update on the Hays Strip Mine and Racetrack
• Letter to the Editor/Mountaintop Removal
• Thank You!
• Spotlight on a Board Member: Jonathan Nadle