Allegheny Co. Health Department Fines Two Neville Island Companies for Air Quality Violations

Editor’s Note: The Allegheny County Health Department periodically updates its website to include documents related to air quality enforcement actions. As part of our watchdog work, GASP monitors this webpage and reports on the air quality violations posted there.

Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) recently issued fines against two Neville Island facilities for air quality violations - Lindy Paving and INEOS.

ACHD on April 25 slapped INEOS Composites with a $17,825 fine for three violations that occurred in 2024:

1. Exceeding the short-term emissions limit for carbon monoxide during compliance testing of the facility’s thermal oxidizer 

2. Exceeding the hourly emissions limit for particulate matter (PM10) during that compliance testing.

3. Continuing to operate the thermal oxidizer when it was out of compliance.

For the uninitiated: INEOS manufactures and sells polyester and vinyl ester resins, gelcoats and low-profile additives for the plastics industry.

You can read the entire enforcement order here.

ACHD on April 25 also fined Lindy Paving $1,500 for failing to report a breakdown that occured at the company’s Neville Island facility on Aug. 8, 2024, that resulted in excess emissions.

According to the enforcement order, Lindy did not provide ACHD with an initial breakdown report within 60 minutes, as required by its operating permit. The company also failed to provide a written follow-up report to the department within seven days as required by its permit.

In fact, Lindy did not provide further information on the incident to ACHD until Oct. 3, 2024.

You can read the entire enforcement order here.

For folks unfamiliar with Lindy Paving: The company produces asphalt and concrete for the paving industry.

It was unclear why there was such a long gap between when the violation occurred and when the enforcement actions were issued.

Stay tuned. GASP continues to follow these enforcement issues closely and will keep you posted.