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        • Drive Cleaner, Drive Greener 2005 Thanks
      • Cars of Today… Fuels for the Future Panel Discussion
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    • Environmental Heroes
    • GASPalerts: October 24, 2008
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    • GASPalerts: September 23, 2008
    • Mullins Environmental Advocacy Competition
    • Pollution Patrol Team
    • Diesel Campaign
      • 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
      • Public Hearing on Diesel Regulations
      • Comments to the Allegheny County Board of Health Concerning Proposed Regulation: ‘Diesel Powered Motor Vehicle Idling’
      • Allegheny County Anti-Idling Ordinance
    • GASPalerts: November 13, 2008
    • Hays Hilltop
      • GASP Comments on ACHD Permit # 0679-I001
      • Testimony for ACHD Permit # 0679-I001
      • Comments to Planning Commission
      • GASP’s Comments to Pittsburgh City Council Regarding the Conditional Use Application #711
    • GASP and Reliant Energy
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    • Energy Issues
      • Clean Smokestacks Act of 1999
      • Regional Transport of Smog (Ozone) Section 126 Petitions
    • Air Pollution from Coal Combustion
    • Ozone
      • SW PA Ozone Stakeholders Group
      • The Southwestern Pennsylvania Ozone Stakeholder Working Group’s Final Recommendations
    • Annual Events
      • GASP & Good Friends: September 27, 2008
      • Annual Meeting 2006
        • GASP at the Gallery Thank You
      • Fall Event 2005: Transportation Solutions: Putting America in the Driver’s Seat
        • 2005 Slient Auction
      • 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
        • Rep. Waxman 2002 Speech
        • Annual Meeting 2002 Thanks
      • Annual Meeting 2000
      • Annual Meeting 1999: 30th Anniversary Celebration
      • 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
    • GASPalerts: August 28, 2008
    • GASPalerts: July 25, 2008
  • GASP in the News
    • GASP Press Releases
      • 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
  • Hotline
    • 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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Pittsburgh: The Smoky City

View of downtown Pittsburgh from the Liberty Tunnel, 1947

Same location as above, 1965

1972 photo of a smokestack in downtown Pittsburgh with Three Rivers Stadium in the background

A cleaner Pittsburgh, undated photo

Darkness at noon, undated photo

Cars on a dark road, undated photo

Pittsburgh in the 1930s

Smokestacks from the top of Union Station, 1906

Downtown Pittsburgh, November 1954

Trees and pollution, undated

Coal burning in Pittsburgh during World War II