John joined GASP as a dues-paying member in early 1998 during the final days of LTV’s Hazelwood Coke When the news reported that Sun Coke Company might locate a new coke plant on the former LTV site, Kate nearby neighborhoods was noticeably cleaner, and Kate was appalled at the idea of living with another coke plant: “I attended GASP’s public forum about the Sun Coke plan in mid-August [1998] and got involved Due in part to the efforts of GASP, CHOC, and other concerned local groups, Sun Coke decided to locate

ACHD operates nine monitoring sites to meet the core objectives for all monitoring networks across the And the EPA now allows for the data alignment algorithm to be used (under another new method code) retroactively gas, and water wells) and as a result of industrial activity (including, most notably for our region, coke Steel’s Clairton Coke Works operations.

This latest group of fines is not related to the fire that occurred at the Coke Plant on December 24, are also separate from all other enforcement actions and legal matters issued against the Clairton Coke violations in 2018 Editor's Note: More information regarding ACHD’s legal matters with the Clairton Coke

For years, we have come to this board to express concerns about hydrogen sulfide malodors impacting our To the health department’s credit, you have attempted to get at the problem by revising the County’s coke

Steel’s Clairton Coke Works so far in 2021. address poor air quality in the Mon Valley via social media, but all too often those communications come

Climate Change: How Use of this Dirty Fossil Fuel Impacts the Climate Crisis Transforming coal into coke Steel’s Clairton Coke Works. Local residents know that exposure to coke oven emissions is linked to myriad health problems such as The human and environmental impacts of coke oven gases like carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane can’t be In fact, the Allegheny County Health Department is in the midst of updating its coke oven regulations

Now, research from geologists at the University of Pittsburgh shows that historic coking and smelting New research led by Pitt geologists shows how historical coking and smelting dropped toxic metals in While the most severe levels of soil lead come from concentrated sources, those aren’t the only factors

This week’s unseasonably warm temperatures have come with unreasonably putrid air quality conditions: exceedances in the Mon Valley “can be attributed entirely” to emissions from the company’s Clairton Coke

Steel’s Clairton Coke Works facility. announced that it has issued a penalty of $1,842,530 against the United States Steel Corporation Clairton Coke demonstrated through analysis of monitored data that the source of the H2S exceedances was the Clairton Coke Steel’s Clairton Coke Works is solely to blame for the ongoing exceedances of Pennsylvania’s 24-hour This has been a long time coming,” GASP Executive Director Patrick Campbell said.

clean heats, which significantly reduces the emission of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and often come In addition to strengthening existing policies to reduce emissions from coke-making, Allegheny County