air quality

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Tool Measuring Health Impacts of Environmental Burdens Unveiled – How Does Your Community Stack Up?

Federal health officials last week announced what’s being touted as the first national, place-based mapping tool designed to measure the...

Air pollution has long been an environmental and public health concern in the Mon Valley, and a spate of recent research studies have...

GASP to BOH: Public Needs Transparency, Updates – Especially After High-Profile Emissions Events

GASP on Wednesday submitted formal written comments to the Allegheny County Board of Health in advance of its Wednesday meeting, again...

LIMITED (FREE) OPPORTUNITY | Attend 2-Day Smoke School to Evaluate Those Neighborhood Plumes

Editor's Note: All the available spots for this free opportunity have been filled. Poor air quality affects us all, but it doesn’t affect...

RGGI Saga Continues After Commonwealth Court Enjoins Implementation in PA

The saga of Pennsylvania’s quest to enter the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative – or RGGI – has yet another chapter: Last week, a...

Allegheny County Health Department Issues Civil Penalties, Warnings Over Air Quality Violations

Editor’s Note: The Allegheny County Health Department periodically updates its website to include documents related to air quality...

GASP to ACHD: Public Deserves Update on U.S. Steel Outage at Clairton, Air Quality Implications

An unplanned early morning power outage at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works facility on Monday, the Fourth of July, resulted in heavy...

Smoke & Flames at Clairton Coke Works: Allegheny County Health Dept. Issues Alert Regarding Outage

Flames and heavy smoke spewing from U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works on Monday prompted the Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) to...

GASP Joins Residents at Hearing to Tell ACHD: Protect Us from Edgar Thomson Emissions

GASP joined residents and fellow air quality advocates Wednesday to speak out about a draft Title V operating permit for U.S. Steel’s...

Ready to Rally? Join Us & Stand With Residents Raging Against Edgar Thomson Emissions, Permit

Steelers football fans know that Pittsburgh’s own Heinz Field is considered one of the toughest places to play an away game in the entire...

Environmental Quality Board Shelves Regs for Methane & VOC Emissions from Conventional Gas Wells

Pennsylvania’s Environmental Quality Board this week folded in the face of a legal challenge from the gas drilling industry and its...

5 Reasons to Comment NOW About Proposed U.S. Steel Edgar Thomson Air Pollution Settlement

Emissions from U.S. Steel’s Edgar Thomson Works in North Braddock have fouled Mon Valley skies for decades and for years the facility has...

GASP to Municipal Leaders: Apply for FREE Climate Action Training to Help Improve Air Quality

What if we told you there was a way for local municipal officials to receive FREE training to conduct inventories of local greenhouse gas...

The Edgar Thomson PROPOSED Consent Decree Explained – And How Community Input Can Make it Stronger

By now, the news has been widely reported: County and federal air quality regulators have entered into a proposed consent decree with...