A few hours into U.S. Steel’s open house event inside Carnegie One Library in Braddock, the Allegheny County Health Department issued a hazardous air quality warning. Concentrations of fine particulate matter — particles that are 2.5 micrometers in diameter and can cut through your body’s defenses to settle deep in the lungs — skyrocketed as …
Please sign the petition if you have not already done so. On September 2024, the Allegheny County Board of Health (ACHD) recommended to Allegheny County Council that operating permit fees charged to polluting companies be increased, to provide funding for the Board of Health to better enforce air-quality regulations. Backlogs on processing such permits have …
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REGISTER TODAY Last November, Allegheny County Controller Corey O’Connor announced an audit of the Allegheny County Health Department’s (ACHD) Clean Air Fund (CAF). The Controller will be joining us for a portion of this session. Instead of meeting the real needs of residents, especially those living closest to the point-sources of pollution, late in 2023 the CAF was …
Air Quality Town Hall #13: We Made a Difference – Time to Double-Down Read More »
12-19-2023 Dear Sirs. A lame-duck Allegheny County administration and Board of Health suddenly have chosen to put three important and highly controversial permits for major sources of air pollution out for public comment at a time of year when residents are preoccupied with plans for the year-end holiday season, and in the heart of winter, …
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12-19-2023 Dear Corey: I am writing to you as a constituent of yours when you represented Squirrel Hill in Pittsburgh’s City Council, and now as Allegheny County Controller. As you may recall, I am the founder and convener of East End Neighbors: fight air pollution, and Southwest Pa Grassroots Resident-Led Air Quality Town Halls. As …
Contact: Howard Rieger,hmrieger@gmail.com, 412-303-4942 Debra Smit, dsmit@breatheproject.org412-760-7677 The 11th Southwest PA’s Resident-Led Air Quality Town Hall (SWPATHS) will continue its 2-year campaign to raise awareness around our region’s unhealthy air quality. Join us to hear Allegheny County executive candidate Sara Innamorato’s bold plan to address problems within the health department and more hard-hitting criticism of …
Issue 1One of the prime responsibilities of the ACE is oversight and key decision-making related to the functioning of the Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD), the selection of its Director, and the members of its Board of Health and committees. ACHD is being led by an Interim-Director without any public health or medical credentials. Hopefully …
POST-VISIT UPDATE As you read the details below of the recent productive May 2, 2023 visit of EPA Region 3 Administrator Adam Ortiz and his team to the Mon Valley, a trip for which we advocated and planned the itinerary, it is important to note a glaring disparity between the willingness of the EPA to …
Air Quality Town Hall #10: An East Palestine Rail Disaster in Pittsburgh?—FULL EVENT Part 1: Derailment Likelihood & Emergency Response – Chief Darryl Jones, Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire & Emergency Management Coordinator Part 2: Norfolk Southern—Zero Bridge Maintenance – Larry Simms, Research & Strategy for RP3 Part 3: Norfolk Southern—Rail Risks & Policy Reform – …
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Sara Innamorato Responses Q: Will you promote rooting out the conflicts of interest which weaken the ability of ACHD to do its job effectively? A: Yes. I will start by appointing members to the Board of Health who have environmental, public health, and medical credentials and ban representatives from polluting industry from sitting on the …
ACE Candidates Responses – Innamorato, Fawcett and Lamb Read More »