It's Giving Season - Here's What a Donation to GASP Means...

Dear Fellow Breathers,

At GASP, we know that action is eloquence. So we won’t try to impress you with fancy prose because our work speaks for itself; work that helped drive real change here in southwestern Pennsylvania. For the past 54 years, we’ve taken a three-pronged approach to improving regional air quality, one that includes a mix of education, policy, and legal/watchdog work.

On the education front this year we:

• Commenced our 3rd year of Fresh Voices for Clean Air - a program pairing Allegheny Co. high schoolers with peers in Birmingham, Alabama to elevate youth voices & support the next generation of environmental advocates.

• Partnered with myriad municipalities to educate officials about all things air quality so that they can more effectively serve their communities.

• Launched an asbestos-awareness campaign so folks understand it is still a clear and present air quality danger.

On the policy front we:

• Helped launch a co-op in Allegheny County that helped residents and small business owners install solar panels for the best possible price.

• Joined Mayor Ed Gainey, state officials & fellow advocates to urge robust public support for zero-emissions vehicles and investments in clean transportation.

• Championed DEP’s draft Environmental Justice Policy and called on the department to go all-in on transparency.

In the legal/watchdog arena we:

• Successfully challenged U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works Title V permit, forcing ACHD to include a valid air quality compliance schedule to ensure air quality obligations are met.

• Pushed ACHD to increase public access to air quality data that helped lead to the creation of interactive dashboards displaying H2S and other important emissions inventory data.

• Started work on a multi-year air quality monitoring project funded by the EPA that will help fill gaps in the regulatory monitoring network and allow residents to better understand what’s in the air they breathe.

The momentum is real, and we hope we can continue to depend on you to help us keep up the pace. To our longtime supporters: Thank you and please consider renewing your membership today. For those new to the GASP crew, please join us. Memberships start at just $50 – or an amount comfortable for you. Membership to GASP gets you weekly Alerts and invites to special events and our members give us standing to intervene in air pollution-related legal cases when necessary.

You can make a one-time or recurring donation by visiting gasp-pgh.org/donate.

Note: Many employers (like Google and BNY Mellon) match employee donations to nonprofits like GASP so you could possibly double your impact just by reaching out to your human resources representative.

THANK YOU!

Sincerely,

Executive Director Patrick Campbell & President Jonathan Nadle