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DEP Proposes Air Permit Fee Schedule Change, Public Comments Sought
Pennsylvania’s Environmental Quality Board on April 13 published proposed amendments to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental...
Apr 29, 20193 min read
URA to Adopt Environmentally Friendly Clean Construction Guidelines
The board of the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh is set Thursday to adopt the City’s “Clean Construction” guidelines. The...
Apr 10, 20192 min read
HECA, GASP Teaming Up for April 16 Community Meeting Regarding Ongoing Erie Coke Violations
Photo courtesy of the HECA website. Editor’s Note: The following is from a press release issued April 4 by our friends at Hold Erie Coke...
Apr 5, 20192 min read
Air Quality 102: Understanding What’s in the Air
While Pittsburgh has come a long way when it comes to air quality improvements, it still has a long way to go. Recent research...
Mar 27, 20193 min read
PennFuture Campaign to Engage Residents in Telling U.S. Steel to Improve Clairton Coke Works
Editor’s Note: We wanted to make sure everyone saw this new campaign from our friends at PennFuture. The below blog was taken from a...
Mar 27, 20195 min read
Hike Through History: How Donora’s Killer Smog Gave Birth to Cleaner Air
Dangerous air quality and poor weather conditions led to a killer smog to form over Donora in 1948 that claimed the lives of 27 people...
Mar 26, 20191 min read
GASP Teams Up with Lawrenceville Clean Air Now
Photo courtesy of LCAN. About 50 people attended a meeting hosted by the local grassroots group Lawrenceville Clean Air Now (LCAN) on...
Mar 19, 20191 min read
GASP Board Member Honored with Carnegie Science Award
Congratulations are in order for GASP board member Harold Rickenbacker, who will be honored in May with a Carnegie Science Award. “The...
Mar 14, 20192 min read
GASP Seeks Local Smoke Readers; Free Training Provided
They say, “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” They say, “Actions are louder than words.” What they don’t tell you is how to be...
Mar 13, 20192 min read
Air Quality 101: Smell Something? Say Something!
Take a deep breath. Smell something acrid or chemical? How about the odor of rotten eggs? Then report it! While the Pennsylvania...
Mar 11, 20192 min read
Women’s History Month: GASP’s Feisty Founder Was a Pittsburgh Trailblazer
March is Women’s History Month and truly, we couldn’t celebrate GASP history without highlighting all the women who helped us fight the...
Mar 8, 20192 min read
GASP Hires Communications Manager
For Amanda Gillooly, becoming the communications manager for the Group Against Smog and Pollution felt like coming home again. In the...
Mar 7, 20192 min read
GASP Joins Mayor, Officials, for Kickoff of City’s First ‘Clean Construction’ Project
GASP’s Rachel Filippini Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP) executive director Rachel Filippini joined Mayor Bill Peduto and other...
Feb 21, 20192 min read
Yes, Poor Air Quality Affects Your Pets, Too
Fact: People who are regularly exposed to poor air quality are at greater risk for developing a host of health problems, from...
Feb 18, 20192 min read
UPDATED: PA DEP’s Northwest Regional Office Issues Administrative Order to Erie Coke Corp.
Photo courtesy of the HECA website. UPDATE: Erie Coke Works on March 7 filed an appeal to DEP’s Feb. 14 order. The Department of...
Feb 13, 20192 min read
American Lung Association Releases Annual Air Quality Report
The American Lung Association released its annual air quality report. Read press release here #airquality #AmericanLungAssociation...
Feb 10, 20191 min read
Video Presentations From “Making the Connection: Manganese and Children’s IQ”
Along with following up on the long-delayed permitting of the McConway and Torley steel foundry in Lawrenceville, GASP has also been...
Dec 18, 20182 min read
Clairton Residents Urge U.S. Steel to Focus on Cleanup
Dec. 3, 2018 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Geoff Bland, Clean Water Action gbland@cleanwater.org, (412) 765-3053 Zachery Barber, PennEnvironment...
Dec 6, 20183 min read
Health Department Tracks Down Source of Rotten Egg Hydrogen Sulfide Emissions
A year ago GASP began urging the Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) to do more to eliminate violations of the County’s hydrogen...
Sep 26, 20183 min read
Allegheny County Health Department Commits to Clear Permit Backlog After EPA Scrutiny
Title V of the Clean Air Act requires that each major source of air pollution (as well as certain minor sources) have an operating permit...
Sep 11, 20182 min read
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