Showing posts with label air quality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label air quality. Show all posts
Monday, April 18, 2016

On their terms: residents combat poor air quality to #CleanUpClairton

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Although regulatory agencies are required to protect public health by enforcing federal air quality standards set by the Environmental Prote...
Thursday, March 10, 2016

How crowdsourcing and technology are democratizing air quality monitoring

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Allegheny County’s air ranks among the worst counties nationally for cancer risk. And our recent notice of legal action shows that business...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

What’s the state of Pennsylvania's air?

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This is the second post in a four-part blog series on air quality. Now that you have a solid understanding of air pollutants  it’s time ...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

This will NOx your SOx off!

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This is the first in a multi-part series on air quality. What will NOx my SOx off, you ask? Well it’s this blog series on air quality, of...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Clairton Coke Works: Continuous improvement to the environment?

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Clairton Coke Works is the largest coke manufacturing facility in the United States. The plant dumps toxic pollution into the air as ...
Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Code orange reminds us that air pollution is still a problem

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On July 28, an air quality alert was in effect for the Pittsburgh region stemming from a sweltering heat wave across the U.S. This ...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Pittsburgh, a resilient city

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Point State Park at Sunset From steel, to collapse, to a diverse knowledge and health-based economy, Pittsburgh has come to embody the d...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Drexel University researchers: Methane emissions rising in PA's Marcellus Shale region

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On May 19, a team of researchers from Drexel University in Philadelphia released findings of a two-month mobile air quality monitoring camp...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Let's clean up Cheswick Power Plant and our air

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Photo of Cheswick Power Plant from the author's home On April 2, 2015, community members met in Springdale, Pa. along with PennFutur...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

University of Pittsburgh research links autism to air pollution

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A new study was released Wednesday showing a link between autism spectrum disorders and maternal exposure to toxic air pollution during preg...

VIDEO: "Methane Matters: PA Needs to Know"

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You've got questions and we've got answers.  What is methane? Why is it leaking from Pennsylvania's natural gas operations? Why...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

The Black & Gold City is still Going Green

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This past Saturday, we had 12 volunteers who helped distribute 137 free energy-saving toolkits to residents in the Mt. Washington neighbor...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Pennsylvania way behind on methane regulations

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It's a big week for air quality in the Keystone state.  Governor Tom Corbett has declared this week Air Quality Awareness Week. The U...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Coking? Make that choking.

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On April 30, 2014 the Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) will present its Consent Agreement with Shenango Coke Works at a public me...