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Clean Air Council: US Steel Complying With Lawsuit Settlement To Reduce Harmful Air Pollution At Clairton Coke [Coal] Works

PA Environment Daily

On June 4, the Clean Air Council said US Steel is taking steps to comply with the lawsuit settlement to reduce harmful air pollution from the Clairton Coke [Coal] Works in Allegheny County. The lawsuit was filed in response to thousands of violations of air pollution limits after the massive fire at U.S.

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PennEnvironment, Clean Air Council Win Record $42 Million Air Pollution Settlement Covering 3 US Steel Facilities In The Mon Valley, Pittsburgh

PA Environment Daily

District Court on Monday a proposed consent decree in settlement of their federal Clean Air Act lawsuit against United States Steel Corporation. Steel will pay a $5 million penalty -- by far the largest in a Clean Air Act citizen enforcement suit in Pennsylvania history, and one of the three largest ever nationally.

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Federal Judge Approves Proposed Consent Agreement Between PennEnvironment, Clean Air Council, and U.S. Steel For Air Pollution Violations At Clairton Coke [Coal] Works, 2 Other Facilities

PA Environment Daily

The $42 million agreement will resolve a case alleging thousands of violations of air pollution standards that stemmed from a catastrophic 2018 fire and subsequent pollution control system breakdowns at the company’s three Mon Valley Works facilities: the Clairton Coke Works and the Edgar Thomson and Irvin steel mills.

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Why Congress Should Pass the A. Donald McEachin Environmental Justice for All Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

Donald McEachin, who co-led the inception of this legislation starting in 2018 and was a fierce champion for environmental justice all his life. Beverly Wright, Vernice Miller-Travis , and Peggy Shepard, among others, shows that Black and brown communities are disproportionately exposed to and harmed by pollution.

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Group Against Smog & Pollution Report Finds Allegheny County Health Dept. Air Quality Permit Backlog Getting Worse; DEP Making Progress

PA Environment Daily

“At GASP we not only monitor air quality and challenge industrial polluters’ illegal emissions, we also work to hold air quality regulators accountable for doing their jobs and fulfilling the duties that air pollution laws impose on them,” Executive Director Patrick Campbell explained.

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French company to coordinate carbon capture project in Brazil

Corp Watch

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in 2013.

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Oil Giant's AFCON Sponsorship Denounced as Plot to Set Off Carbon Bombs Across Africa

Corp Watch

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in 2013.

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