EPA approved monitors when the need arises like it did last year following the fire at the Clairton Coke robust and comprehensive kind of benzene monitoring that the PA DEP is doing around the now shuttered Erie Coke Corporation.2There could also be an opportunity for more comprehensive monitoring of manganese,

Steel’s Clairton Coke Works for more than three months sickened local residents. “In addition to verifying that people living within a 10-mile radius of the Coke Works had higher rates The facility produces highly refined coal (also called coke) that is used as fuel in the manufacture Creating coke results in the emission of myriad air pollutants, which are minimized through the plant Research (AIR) registry to collect information from 39 asthma patients living within 10 miles of the coke

Steel nearly $2 million for 362 pushing violations that occurred at its Clairton Coke Works facility We hope to continue to see vigorous enforcement when it comes to industrial bad actors like U.S.

The penalty was assessed because of continued air quality issues at the Clairton Coke Works facility by the ACHD on Oct. 18, for continued emissions problems for the 2nd quarter of 2018 at the Clairton Coke

Stay tuned, more to come from GASP on what this all means. Spoiler: It's a big deal. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works by the Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) in November 2022 on the Steel’s Clairton Coke Works is the largest coke plant in North America and a significant source of air that EPA granted our petition and agreed that ACHD must develop a compliance schedule for its Clairton Coke

stipulated penalties in the amount of $216,325 for air quality violations that occurred at the Clairton Coke Steel’s compliance has plummeted - especially when it comes to leaking coke oven doors,” GASP Executive

Lame joke. Sorry, sorry: Sometimes if you can’t laugh, you’ll cry. And the changes on the federal level are coming at a blistering pace. Folks are concerned about rollbacks of crucial regulations dealing with coke oven emissions and other followed us and found important air quality updates on X, leaving this platform has been a long time coming

processing; Integrated iron and steel manufacturing; and (last but not least - especially locally) Coke gives the President the power to issue exemptions like those EPA offered in March should never have come There are 532 such sources, including nine in western Pennsylvania: Cosmed Group  in Erie and American Steel’s Clairton Works and Cleveland Cliffs’ Monessen Coke Plant  are requesting exemptions from the NESHAPs for Coke Ovens.

Bellevue to outline their concerns over repeated, ongoing air pollution violations from the Shenango Coke our health and the health of our children due to the ongoing air quality issues in the area from the coke to air that is being polluted by these violations at the coke works. urge the Allegheny County Health Department to take action to rein in the violations by the Shenango Coke To stay current on this air quality issue, please visit our Project Page, DTE Shenango Coke.

Steel's Clairton Coke Works facility. You can get the skinny on the hearing regarding portions of the Clairton Coke Works' Title V operating Steel’s Clairton Coke Works emits myriad harmful pollutants - from fine particulate matter and carbon The facility is the largest coke plant in North America and - as residents know all too well - is a major Steel for its Clairton Coke Works facility still does not include a proper compliance schedule for these