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Not good enough for whom? Pittsburgh is a place worth fighting for

Pittsburgh is cheap, but it stinks. Or so says Google engineer Dennis Towne, whose recent PublicSource essay laments the city's noxious pollution problem and urges tech workers to stay away.

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Pittsburgh: Air quality protest leads to tension in Board of Health meeting

At the heart of the debate Friday between air quality advocates and regulators: How fast can the Pittsburgh region clean up its air?

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New Allegheny County Council members want to improve air quality, but what power do they have?

According to the Allegheny County Law Department, the power to change air quality regulations belongs almost exclusively to the Health Department and Board of Health.

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Dennis Towne: Why I tell my Google co-workers and industry peers to avoid Pittsburgh

Industrial air pollution is so rare in my experience that I literally didn't even think to look for it here. I wonder how many other people new to Pittsburgh are in the same boat.

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Allegheny county elected officials call for crackdown on industrial pollution

More than 60 elected officials from Allegheny County signed an open letter calling for clean air in our region.

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Investigation: Cracker plant will bring jobs, pollution

MONACA, PA —The massive ethane cracker plant in Beaver County is bringing thousands of jobs to Western Pennsylvania.
But Action News Investigates has learned it may also bring thousands of tons of air pollutants to a region that already has some of the nation's dirtiest air.

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Pittsburgh’s air quality continues to decline, new report finds

PITTSBURGH—For the second year in a row, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, was the only U.S. county outside of California to receive all F's in the American Lung Association's national air quality report card.

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Scientists, activists equate air pollution to the opioid epidemic in plea to city council

Pollution is causing more deaths per year in Allegheny County than homicides and traffic crashes combined and is costing billions, according to Neil Donahue, a Carnegie Mellon University atmospheric chemistry expert, who spoke at Tuesday's special meeting.

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Air quality monitor measuring SO2 emissions installed in West Mifflin

A new air quality monitor has been installed in West Mifflin, the Allegheny County Health Department announced Monday.

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ER visits for asthma dropped 38% the year after one of Pittsburgh's biggest polluters shut down

PITTSBURGH—Dawn Winters never had trouble breathing before she moved to Pittsburgh's Bellevue neighborhood in 2014, but within a year her doctor diagnosed her with asthma and prescribed a daily medication to keep her airways open.

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Pittsburgh scores all F’s on the American Lung Association’s air quality report card

Pittsburgh's air quality is not only among the worst in the nation, but has actually declined in recent years, according to a new report from the American Lung Association.

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New country, same oppression: It’s time to bolster farmworkers’ rights

Whether rural Pakistan or the Salinas Valley, neglect and injustice pervade farm work. Environmental scientists, policymakers and citizens need to step up for the workers who feed our nation.

Not good enough for whom? Pittsburgh is a place worth fighting for

Pittsburgh: Air quality protest leads to tension in Board of Health meeting

New Allegheny County Council members want to improve air quality, but what power do they have?

Dennis Towne: Why I tell my Google co-workers and industry peers to avoid Pittsburgh

Allegheny county elected officials call for crackdown on industrial pollution

Investigation: Cracker plant will bring jobs, pollution

Pittsburgh’s air quality continues to decline, new report finds

Scientists, activists equate air pollution to the opioid epidemic in plea to city council

Air quality monitor measuring SO2 emissions installed in West Mifflin

ER visits for asthma dropped 38% the year after one of Pittsburgh's biggest polluters shut down

Pittsburgh scores all F’s on the American Lung Association’s air quality report card

New country, same oppression: It’s time to bolster farmworkers’ rights

Whether rural Pakistan or the Salinas Valley, neglect and injustice pervade farm work. Environmental scientists, policymakers and citizens need to step up for the workers who feed our nation.

Why I'm dedicated to amplifying neglected voices in environmental health

It's time to promote and embrace diversity within the environmental health community and listen to solutions from tomorrow's leaders

Weed and water woes in the legendary Emerald Triangle

Dried up streams and dying fish are putting the top cannabis-producing region in the country under the microscope

The I-told-you-so heard ‘round the world

The climate beat, where you constantly pray that you're wrong—but rarely are.

Agents of Change: Amplifying neglected voices in environmental health

EHN is teaming up with The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health to bring you the voices of next generation environmental health leaders

Whose job is it to reduce toxic mercury in the Ohio River?

The brain-harming metal is discharged directly into the river and carried to it on air currents. Some argue authorities are doing too little to stop both routes of pollution.

Whether rural Pakistan or the Salinas Valley, neglect and injustice pervade farm work. Environmental scientists, policymakers and citizens need to step up for the workers who feed our nation.

It's time to promote and embrace diversity within the environmental health community and listen to solutions from tomorrow's leaders

Dried up streams and dying fish are putting the top cannabis-producing region in the country under the microscope

The climate beat, where you constantly pray that you're wrong—but rarely are.

EHN is teaming up with The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health to bring you the voices of next generation environmental health leaders

The brain-harming metal is discharged directly into the river and carried to it on air currents. Some argue authorities are doing too little to stop both routes of pollution.

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