Group Against Smog & Pollution

McConway and Torley, LLC (M&T) and the Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP) have finalized an agreement regarding air emission reductions at M&T’s Lawrenceville steel foundry. M&T has operated its Lawrenceville foundry since the 1860s.  The foundry manufactures steel castings and employs 273 individuals.  GASP is a Pittsburgh-based environmental nonprofit that has worked on air quality issues in southwestern Pennsylvania for more than 40 years. In January 2011 the Alleghen

In a press briefing on March 9, the Heinz Endowments released a report detailing how the region’s air pollution ranks among the most severe in the nation. The study, “Fine Particulate Matter and Ozone Air Quality in Western Pennsylvania in the 2000s,” was conducted by Dr. John Graham, a senior scientist with the Boston-based Clean Air Task Force. While the report confirms what we already know, one of its key findings debunks the myth that the pollution in our area is all blow

Last week, GASP, Clean Water Action, and Pittsburgh United were joined by several local physicians and a number of other organizations representing labor, environment, health, and faith to call on Pittsburgh City Council to take back up the Clean Air Act of 2010. The Clean Air Act of 2010 is clean construction legislation that would require contractors and construction companies working on large, publicly subsidized projects to utilize cleaner construction equipment. The focu

Key Points: DEP’s Marcellus air studies monitored for 44 pollutants at 8 Marcellus Sites The study focused solely on concentrations sufficiently elevated that short-term exposure would pose a health risk. For several of the pollutants we would most expect to see near natural gas sites, DEP’s monitoring equipment was not sufficiently sensitive to detect these pollutants unless air concentrations were well above levels where short-term exposure is dangerous No consideration of

Jonathan Nadle has been GASP’s president for two years now, having joined GASP as a member a decade ago. A Penn State grad with a political science degree, Jonathan believes in “staying involved” and has worked on various political campaigns, community cleanups, and environmental causes. An active board member, Jonathan sits on GASP’s Communications Committee and helps proofread and edit the Hotline, in addition to coordinating GASP events and meetings. Previously he served f

Kate St. John joined GASP as a dues-paying member in early 1998 during the final days of LTV’s Hazelwood Coke Works and became a board member in 1999. She currently helps keep GASP’s financial I’s dotted and T’s crossed as chair of the Finance Committee. When LTV wanted to close the plant, Kate remembers, “Even where I live, one mile downwind from the LTV site, the air pollution was horrible.” While this was going on, Kate read in the newspaper that GASP was taking LTV to cou