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

That smell very likely comes from hydrogen sulfide (H2S), whose odor is perceptible by most at a very Steel’s Clairton Coke Plant air emissions.

Pittsburgh-New Castle-Weirton region still ranks among the top-10 worst regions in the country when it comes the time for local leaders like Allegheny County Chief Executive Rich Fitzgerald to champion stronger coke “Allegheny County should act to level the playing field when it comes to having a healthy start in life

pollutants Saturday but undoubtedly hydrogen sulfide (H2S) – a flammable, colorless gas produced during the coke-making with which these exceedances occur and our regular calls to action asking ACHD to do better when it comes Steel’s Clairton Coke Works in April 2021 (as well as an associated press release), but unfortunately

Steel’s Clairton Coke Works, the associated supplemental environmental projects do not need to be related was a brand-new way of supporting the communities most impacted by air pollution from the Clairton Coke

Steel Coke Works fire in 2018.