Advisory Committee on Monday voted 5-4 to recommend that the Board of Health send revisions to its coke Steel – the sole coke oven operator in Allegheny County – said they were “disappointed” in the proposed GASP late last year petitioned ACHD to keep its 2018 promise to tighten up its coke oven regs to reduce “It’s important to remember why these regulations are so important: Coke-making is a primary source of Steel’s Clairton Coke Works is the largest emitter of H2S not only locally, but in the entire state,”

Steel’s Clairton Coke Work, which is one of the largest coke-making facilities in the country and one Steel’s Clairton Coke Works back into compliance with air quality regulations. Steel's Clairton Coke Works. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works personally or simply want to stand with those who have been. we encourage

Steel’s Clairton Coke Works facility on Monday, the Fourth of July, resulted in heavy smoke and flames That message was just a few paragraphs long and told residents the outage required the flaring of coke oven gases from the Clairton Coke Works’ stacks and batteries, that ACHD was monitoring air quality “Residents told us about feeling like they were choking that day, and the SmellPgh app shows numerous When it comes to being a good neighbor, U.S. Steel is all lip service.”

Steel’s Clairton Coke Works (an outage that necessitated flaring) and the other at Metalico Recycling Yet, information about these incidents and the emissions they created was hard to come by in real-time

who don’t live nearby to - or downwind of - an industrial source of air pollution like the Clairton Coke

Steel’s Clairton Coke Works on July 4. Steel to flare coke oven gases from its stacks and batteries. U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works – an incident that sent heavy smoke and flames spewing from the facility. The alert was just a few paragraphs and stated the unplanned event required the flaring of coke oven In stunning Breathe Cam footage, that’s exactly what the Coke Works looked like on July 4.

These are all pollutants highly associated with coke-making. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works is by far the largest emitter of H2S in the county, emitting more than 109 Will revisions to the regulations help to reduce H2S emissions coming from Clairton Coke Works and the –Rachel Filippini, Executive Director #cokeovenregulations #coke #H2S #airpollution #Liberty #AlleghenyCountyHealthDepartment

Steel’s Clairton Coke Works – as well as ACHD’s efforts to reign in H2S emission via a $1.8 million enforcement

Steel’s Clairton Coke Works) to cover the program's costs.

U.S. Steel on Tuesday filed a petition regarding Allegheny County Health Department's air quality enforcement procedures that led to a portion of the stipulated penalties it was assessed last year. GASP staff is currently reviewing the order and on Friday submitted a public records request to ACHD seeking myriad documents, videos, and photographs referenced in the order that were not made public. Stay tuned, we’ll let you know what we find out. In the meantime, we recommend you read the petition for yourself here.