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SKY 4 VIDEO: Firefighters battle fire at scrap yard on Neville Island wtae.com/article/sky-4-…

Watch "The Air That We Breathe" Part One (from March 2020) on YouTube here: youtu.be/6bdXRpQOpkM And Part 2: youtu.be/qy6xkRQGFo0 or TONIGHT March 29 on WQED/PBS at 7:30 p.m.

@GASPPgh @ShawnFnLucas @Allegheny_Co @inversion_doc @HealthAllegheny We ask @U_S_Steel to curtail emissions at Clairton and Edgar Thomson during weather related events. Let residents #breathe! @ACE_Fitzgerald @donhopey @reidfrazier

.@HealthAllegheny's air dispersion report says starting Friday/overnight thru Saturday a.m., "rather stagnant conditions" expected along w/increased malodor/higher PM2.5 levels expected. The conditions for poor #airquality should end by Saturday. DETAILS: alleghenycounty.us/uploadedFiles/…

Allegheny County residents will speak out ONCE AGAIN today at 12:30 p.m. to call on leaders to take decisive action to address unacceptable air quality exceedances that are harming the health of people. Live @cleanh2oaction Facebook page pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/video/4887344-…

@EPA AQI in the #Clairton area was WORST in the country this morning. When do we get to breathe clean air? airstats.createlab.org/highestfive @ACE_Fitzgerald @HealthAllegheny @GASPPgh @PennEnvironment @inversion_doc

Friends in the Liberty-Clairton area: Take care if you’ll be out. AQI now in the red, unhealthy-for-all range.

Awful #airquality continues in @Allegheny_Co. @AIRNow says #Clairton AQI now in the red, unhealthy-for-all range & #Pittsburgh is in the orange, unhealthy-for-sensitive-populations range. Reminder: It's a Code Orange Air Quality Action Day - take care if you'll be out. DETAILS:

Another recent study I hadn't seen when writing this: "A decrease of 1 microgram of particulate matter per cubic meter of air...is sufficient to almost immediately reduce the number of newly confirmed COVID-19 cases by 2% and the number of deaths by 3-4%." news.gsu.edu/2020/10/01/cur…

Would really be great if @HealthAllegheny or @EPA provided SOME update about what’s going on with this @U_S_Steel facility. 👇🏻

HEADS UP from @cmucreatelab’s SmellPGH app. If you smell something nasty in your neighborhood remember to make an #AirQuality report on the app & to @HealthAllegheny at 412-687-ACHD.

Look at all that red and purple. No good. 👇🏻#cleanairnow

It was years before the residents of Avalon, Pennsylvania realized that their growing worries were part of a bigger story: the failure of the research community to put any real effort into understanding the environmental plight of certain communities. undark.org/2020/02/03/und…

Melanie Meade, of Clairton, reflects on the history of her family and having US Steel Coke Works as her neighbor publicsource.org/family-history…

AQI was in the red overnight, reaching 170. DEP yesterday issued a Code Orange #AirQuality Action Day for PM2.5 for today for the Liberty-Clairton area. Inversion isn’t forecast to break until this afternoon, but there’s *some* good news: AQI expected to improve Friday.

📲 Would you please take this @KDKA air quality survey? We want to hear from you regarding your concerns about air quality near your home.

These 2 free clinics are tomorrow, January 9th from 4pm-8pm and Saturday, January 11th from 10am-2pm at the Clairton Municipal Building. bit.ly/2N5Rq2f

There isn't a link up for this yet so I am going to post screenshots of the press release here and add the link later:

You may have heard the air quality in Pittsburgh over the holidays was really bad--again. You may have heard that weather was the reason-- inversions, when warm air traps the pollution below. Now it looks like the county will finally take action: mail.google.com/mail/u/1?ui=2&…

Hey #Pittsburgh: I made a list of 7 things residents of Clairton, McKeesport, and Elizabeth need to know about the proposed settlement with U.S. Steel—including how to get some $$ out of it, and how to avoid giving up your rights. Help me get the word out? ehn.org/clairton-us-st…