Allegheny County Tallied Two More Air Quality Exceedances Last Week
Allegheny County experienced two more air quality exceedances last week when the midnight-to-midnight 24-hour average concentration of...
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Blog Against Smog
- Dec 26, 2020
The One With All the New Year’s Resolutions <Cue Bryan Adams>
Dear Fellow Breathers, Congratulations are in order: It’s Dec. 26 and the roller-coaster ride that was 2020 is nearing an end. We...
- Dec 21, 2020
GASP’s Christmas Wish? Clean Air for the Holiday (for the First Time in Three Years)
On Christmas Eve 2018 – a fire at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works disabled its air pollution controls designed to reduce sulfur content...
- Dec 21, 2020
UPDATED: Allegheny County Health Department’s Lawrenceville Air Quality Monitor Back Online
UPDATE: This blog was updated at 5:40 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 23 to reflect new information from the Allegheny County Health Department....
- Oct 12, 2020
PHOTOS: Understanding Emissions Points, Operations at U.S. Steel’s Edgar Thomson Plant
GASP has been vocal in demanding transparency regarding when and how the Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) and Environmental...
- Oct 6, 2020
Allegheny Co. Controller: ACHD’s Taken “Encouraging Steps” to Stave Off Air Quality Permit Backlog
Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner on Tuesday said her office’s audit of the County Health Department’s (ACHD) Clean Air Act...
- Sep 24, 2020
Prism Response Inc. Agrees to $13,400 Civil Penalty to Settle Alleged Asbestos Abatement Violations
The payment was part of a consent order and agreement between Prism Response and the ACHD finalized Sept. 22. As part of the settlement,...
- Sep 16, 2020
Local Enviro Groups to Chief Executive Rich Fitzgerald: Lives Literally Depend on Your Swift Action
GASP and several local environmental groups and nonprofit partners sent a letter this week to Allegheny County Chief Executive Rich...
- Sep 15, 2020
Amplify Project | Pittsburgh’s Pollution Problem (And How Expanded Public Transportation Can H
GASP this year launched a new initiative called The Amplify Project. Its goal? To help amplify the voices of folks in our community that...
- Aug 28, 2020
Swissvale-Based Kopp Glass Appeals ACHD Enforcement Order
Swissvale-based Kopp Glass has appealed an enforcement order issued by the Allegheny County Health Department July 27 requiring it to...
- Aug 27, 2020
GASP Delivers Widely-Supported Petition to ACHD Demanding Public Update on Emissions Issues at U.S.
Media Contact: Amanda Gillooly GASP Communications Manager amanda@gasp-pgh.org/ 412-924-0604 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE GASP Delivers...
- Aug 18, 2020
ACHD Issues $1,755 Civil Penalty Against Pittsburgh Cremation Services
The Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) on June 8 filed an enforcement order against Pittsburgh Cremation Services for failing to...
- Aug 13, 2020
Sign Our Petition to Tell ACHD it Must Provide Public Update on Edgar Thomson Emissions Issues
GASP needs your help to send a message to the Allegheny County Health Department that enough is enough: The public deserves a substantive...
- Aug 11, 2020
In the Face of Poor Air Quality, Allegheny County Health Department (AGAIN) Gives Far Too Much Credi
When air quality was downright awful for more than a week during the festive season this past December, ACHD was quick to point out that...
- Aug 6, 2020
GASP Applauds Allegheny County Health Department’s New Air Monitoring Study in Swissvale
The Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) on Thursday announced that it had commenced an air toxics monitoring study outside the Kopp...
- Aug 5, 2020
Recent Air Quality Standard Amendment Will Further Limit Mercury Emissions at U.S. Steel Facility
U.S. Steel’s Braddock-based Edgar Thomson Works is one of 11 integrated iron and steel manufacturing facilities in the country to be...
- Jul 20, 2020
DEP Awards $2.1 Million in Grants for Cleaner Fuel Vehicle Projects to Help Improve Air Quality, Add
Editor’s Note: The following was taken from a press release issued today by the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). More...
- Jul 17, 2020
Air Quality Action Day for Ozone Declared for Saturday, July 18
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the Southwestern Pennsylvania Air Quality Partnership, Inc. have...
- Jul 15, 2020
Concerns About Air Quality Dominate Public Comment at Allegheny County Board of Health Meeting
Concerns over poor air quality and recent emissions issues at U.S. Steel’s Mon Valley Works facilities dominated the public comments...
- Jul 9, 2020
Still No Official Explanation for Emissions Issues at U.S. Steel’s Edgar Thomson Plant
Editor’s Note: GASP on Aug. 26 delivered a petition signed by nearly 600 people and 16 local organizations calling for the Allegheny...
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