Hearing Officer Issues Split Decision on Coke Oven Dispute Between the Allegheny County Health Depar
Remember back in September when famously litigious U.S. Steel asked an Allegheny County Health Department hearing officer to put the...
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Blog Against Smog
- Jan 5, 2022
Tuesday Marked First Hydrogen Sulfide Exceedance of the Year for Allegheny County
Well, that didn’t take long: The first exceedance of Pennsylvania’s 24-hour average hydrogen sulfide (H2S) standard is already in the...
- Dec 30, 2021
Allegheny County Health Department Takes Enforcement Action Related to Asbestos Abatement & Mor
The Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) periodically updates its website with recent Air Quality Program enforcement actions. That...
- Dec 21, 2021
UPDATED: Today Will Mark 54th H2S Exceedance of 2021 at Liberty Monitor; Abysmal Air Quality Returns
Editor’s Note: This blog was updated at 10:35 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021, to include information on an exceedance that occurred at...
- Nov 30, 2021
It’s Giving Tuesday: Here’s 7 Reasons to Give to GASP Today
After all these years with you fighting the good air quality fight, the difficult truth remains: Environmental advocacy is largely a...
- Nov 29, 2021
2 More H2S Exceedances for Mon Valley, Still No Word from ACHD on What’s Being Done to Stem Issue
That makes 48 days so far this year that H2S levels exceeded the air quality standard at the Liberty monitor. There have been 17 other...
- Nov 22, 2021
GASP Joins Partners in Response to Bombshell Media Reports About U.S. Steel’s Mon Valley Maintenance
Breathe Project in responding to bombshell media reports published in Allegheny Front and Public Source Friday analyzing court documents...
- Nov 18, 2021
Abysmal Air Quality Returns to Mon Valley as Three More H2S Exceedances Noted
The likely culprit? Another day with sky-high concentrations of hydrogen sulfide (called H2S for short, an air pollutant known by its...
- Nov 8, 2021
<UPDATED> Abysmal Air Quality Continues in the Mon Valley
For the third day in a row, hydrogen sulfide (H2S) levels were so high Tuesday that an exceedance of Pennsylvania’s 24-hour average was...
- Nov 7, 2021
Allegheny Co. Health Dept. Issues Mon Valley Air Pollution Warning as PM2.5 Concentrations Spike
Photo by GASP Board Member Roger Day Editor’s Note: This blog was updated at 4:20 p.m. Nov. 7 to include additional information from the...
- Nov 5, 2021
Mon Valley Sees 55th H2S Exceedance, Liberty-Clairton Air Quality Again Worst in Nation Friday
For a time this morning, AirNow.gov showed the Liberty-Clairton area as having the worst NowCast Air Quality Index (AQI) in the nation...
- Nov 3, 2021
GASP to Health Officials: You Have a Responsibility to Residents to Do More About Mon Valley Stench,
GASP attended the Allegheny County Board of Health meeting Wednesday to once again request that officials provide an update to the public...
- Nov 3, 2021
UPDATE: Neville Chemical Appeals ACHD Enforcement Action, $62K Civil Penalty
A Neville Island resin manufacturer last week appealed an enforcement order issued Oct. 5 by the Allegheny County Health Department...
- Oct 27, 2021
Liberty Air Quality Monitor Experiences Malfunction; GASP, ACHD Provide Answers
At GASP we review air quality data the Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) publishes on a regular basis. Today we noticed...
- Oct 25, 2021
UPDATED: Mon Valley Experiences Another Air Quality Exceedance, GASP Asks Allegheny Co. Health Dept.
By 9 a.m. Monday, concentrations of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) were so high at Allegheny County Health Department’s air quality monitor in...
- Oct 21, 2021
Allegheny County Health Department to Hearing Officer: Deny U.S. Steel Request to Kill New Coke Oven
UPDATE: U.S. Steel filed a reply brief on Oct. 22. You can read it on the Allegheny County Health Department legal docket. The Allegheny...
- Oct 20, 2021
Air Advisory Committee Approve $578K Clean Air Fund Request, Still No Word on GASP Appointee
Members of Allegheny County’s Air Pollution Control Advisory Committee on Tuesday unanimously approved making more than $578,000 from the...
- Oct 14, 2021
Mon Valley Experiences More Malodors, Liberty Monitor Again Exceeds PA Air Quality Standard
So, did you smell it yesterday – that all-too-familiar stench of rotten eggs? Because Wednesday marked the 37th day in 2021 that hydrogen...
- Sep 13, 2021
UPDATED: Allegheny County Council Votes Unanimously to Approve Mon Valley Air Pollution Episodic Reg
Note: This story was updated at 6:16 p.m. Sept. 14 to reflect information from Allegheny County Council’s meeting and again on Sept. 23...
- Aug 31, 2021
Episodic Weather Regulations One Step Closer to Approval Following Allegheny County Council Meeting
Good news: Changes to local air pollution regulations aimed at reducing particulate matter in the Mon Valley during periods of stagnant...
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