More About the Grant Program & Why it has Benzene Monitoring at Clairton Coke Written all Over it. Coke’s facility this past summer.  The monitoring came in the wake of several enforcement actions that required Erie Coke to address numerous Monitor sites were placed in 13 locations along the perimeter of the Erie Coke facility and at four locations ACHD simply must develop a plan to monitor benzene near Clairton Coke.

Steel’s Clairton Coke Works. Steel’s Clairton Coke facility emitted over 30,000 pounds of benzene via stack and fugitive emissions department implement something similar to DEP’s benzene monitoring program around the now-shuttered Erie Coke plant.

citizen monitors all confirmed that before, during, and after Monday's deadly explosion at the Clairton Coke Steel's Clairton Coke Works could experience subsequent emissions events that impact public health and At both Clairton Coke Works and Edgar Thomson, U.S.

Steel’s Clairton Coke Works that killed two people, injured 11 others, and caused an estimated $52.5 washing operation was performed in a way that directly caused the catastrophic failure of the Battery 13 coke The buildings in the Battery 13/14 transfer area were located less than 20 feet directly above the coke address the inherent hazards resulting from the co-location of occupied buildings and the hazardous coke Steel could have prevented 2025 Clairton Coke Works explosion, Chemical Safety Board says | Pittsburgh

“This is a long time coming,” ACHD Deputy of Environmental Health Jim Kelly told the board. The department said it plans to model its VOC monitoring around US Steel’s Clairton Coke and Edgar Thomson the state Department of Environmental Protection to analyze benzene emissions from the now-defunct Erie Coke Corp. – something GASP this year petitioned officials to consider.

Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) stemming from the deadly August 2025 explosion at the Clairton Coke Editor’s Note: The OSHA website also shows OSHA again inspected the Clairton Coke Works on April 8 based

more than $359,000 in stipulated penalties for air quality violations that occurred at its Clairton Coke

Steel’s Clairton Coke Works facility, the Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) announced in a press Steel regarding a breakdown of pollution control equipment at Clairton Coke Works. As a result, Control Rooms 2 and 5 were not processing coke oven gas and the partially processed coke the cause of the breakdown but has requested more information and has inspectors onsite inspecting coking

While there is no EPA requirement to monitor benzene near coke facilities, ACHD does so at its Liberty Monitor site, which is about a mile north-northeast of—and typically downwind of—Clairton Coke Works Coke Corp. Despite the closure of that coke plant, DEP will continue monitoring efforts there through this year. already show an improvement in air quality since the plant discontinued operations at its facility in Erie

Steel’s Clairton Coke Works . In case you missed it, the U.S. The explosion happened when coke oven gas leaked and ignited in a transfer area.