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GASP to ACHD: Revised Coke Oven Regs Must Better Protect Community from H2S, Other Air Pollutants

GASP joined residents and fellow clean air advocates at a public hearing in Clairton Wednesday night to tell the Allegheny County Health...

Air Quality Exceedances Abound This Week at Allegheny County Health Department’s Liberty Monitor

The Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) Tuesday morning issued a Mon Valley Air Pollution Warning for Tuesday and all of Wednesday....

GASP to Allegheny County Board of Health: Leverage Your Authority & Demand More From ACHD

The Allegheny County Board of Health meeting’s public comment period Wednesday was dominated by residents who expressed their concern...

Mon Valley Sees 2nd Exceedance of PA Hydrogen Sulfide Air Quality Standard of the Year Wednesday

It was the second such exceedance of the year at that air quality monitor, according to preliminary data. As a reminder, H2S...

GASP, Fellow Activists & Residents Tell Board of Health: You’re Not Taking This Seriously

Longtime Clairton resident Art Thomas didn’t mince words Wednesday when he spoke before the Allegheny County Board of Health, telling...

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...

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...

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...

Allegheny County Health Department: Federal Air Quality Standards Attained at All Monitors for 1st T

Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) announced in a press release Tuesday that, for the first time in its history, all air quality...

Special Report: How COVID-19 Impacted Allegheny County Air Quality

Stay-at-home orders issued by local and state governments this spring have led to more people working and taking classes from home, which...

UPDATED: Liberty-Clairton Area Again Tops List for Worst Air Quality, Another H2S Exceedance Noted

In fact the air quality was poor enough that the 24-hour average Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) level at the Liberty monitor exceeded the state...

Health Dept. Director Dr. Hacker to Depart Allegheny County in July

County Executive Rich Fitzgerald announced in a press release Friday that Dr. Karen Hacker, director of the Allegheny County Health...

Air Monitoring During the U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works Fire & Repair Period Explored & Explained

Typical raw coke oven gas is largely hydrogen (52 percent-59 percent) and methane (26 percent-33 percent) but among other minor...