Steel, having determined that emissions from the company’s Clairton Coke facility caused 152 exceedances

one, today: The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has declared a statewide Code Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Air Quality Index (AQI) provides standardized color codes for An Air Quality Alert is declared when the AQI is forecasted to be Code Orange or higher. During Code Red Air Quality Alerts all residents should consider limiting their outdoor activities, and Steel’s Clairton Coke Works must conduct basic checks to ensure equipment is in good working order and

Steel’s Clairton Coke Works facility were observed and reported to ACHD on Sept. 28, Oct. 18, and Oct about the Clairton plumes following their last visit to the Mon Valley: “The brownish plumes seem to be coming

Steel’s Clairton Coke Works and Edgar Thompson facilities. Those observations have noted a familiar and disconcerting scene: some nasty brownish plumes coming from the Clairton Coke Works.

Recent incidents at U.S Steel’s Clairton Coke Works and Edgar Thomson facilities sparked rage and concern statements provided preliminary details about the incidents - which occurred on Feb. 5 at the Clairton Coke Steel’s Clairton Coke Works and Edgar Thomson plant are subject to a Title V Operating permit . At both Clairton Coke Works and Edgar Thomson, U.S. at the Clairton Coke Works injuring two workers.

message to the Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) that it needs to take action to strengthen coke working on this issue.The second action necessary is that ACHD must revise and strengthen the County’s coke-oven Air pollution near the Clairton Coke facility is not just a weather-driven anomaly; it is a year-round Residents Press Allegheny County to Do More for Air Quality, published by WESA #pittsburghairpollution #cokeovenregulations

Steel three ways to improve Clairton Coke Works: Retire Clairton Coke Works’ oldest, dirtiest and most problematic coke batteries, which are Batteries 1, 2 and 3 Modernize Clairton Coke Works by investing Steel directly to make the company accountable for the air pollution coming from the Clairton Coke Works “Retiring Batteries 1, 2 and 3 at the Clairton Coke Works—which is the country’s oldest coke plant— would Modernize Clairton Coke Works In 2012, U.S.

Editor’s Note: The public comment period for Allegheny County’s draft coke oven regulations closed as With that out of the way, let’s start at the beginning… Coke Oven Emissions 101 Simply put, coke is produced ACHD’s Coke Oven Regulations: What’s New & What They Will Do Presently, ACHD coke oven regulations spell Revise inspection protocols for fugitive emissions from the coke ovens. The agreement also requires coke oven regulation changes to be “technically feasible.”

emissions tests conducted on Oct. 8-11 and on Oct. 14, 2019 for fine particulate matter (PM2.5) at Clairton Coke Steel was also fined for emissions issues at its Clairton Coke Works in January for which they were assessed

Allegheny County Health Department hearing officer to put the kibosh on long-sought updates to local coke Steel asked ACHD’s hearing officer to order ACHD to stop pursuing the proposed rulemaking regarding coke That agreement came in the wake of a 2018 Clairton Coke Works fire that knocked out air pollution control limits for sulfur compounds in the coke oven gas produced by coke ovens; the inclusion of five new sulfur when coke is unloaded or “pushed” from the coke oven battery.