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Radio · Allegheny CountyThe Pennsylvania county where an explosion at a U.S. Steel plant south of Pittsburgh killed two people and injured more than 10 others announced Thursday that it is stepping up air quality monitoring in the area of the sprawling facility that has a troubled environmental record.The Allegheny County Health Department announced that mobile air units provided by the state and Carnegie Mellon University will be stationed in the Mon Valley where the …See the Story
Air Quality Concerns Linger in the Wake of Steel Plant Explosion in Pennsylvania
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Clairton · ClairtonIn early June, Mon Valley residents were dealt three straight days of persistent rotten egg odor caused by elevated hydrogen sulfide (H2S) levels - a stretch punctuated by a breakdown at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works facility that prompted a public statement from the Allegheny County Health Department and outcry from frontline residents.At the time, details about the breakdown were preliminary: On the afternoon of June 2 an unknown breakdown …Read Article
Public Records Request Provides New Details on Air Quality Impact of Clairton Coke Works Breakdown in June

EPA · WashingtonOver the last few weeks, we have blogged about myriad (bad) decisions by Trump’s EPA leaders to delay the implementation of Clean Air Act emission standards, especially those that were finalized in the waning months of the Biden Administration. For a little bit of background on all that, look here and here. Then it happened again July 31: The regime published a rule extending the deadlines for implementing two sets of standards which would lim…Read Article