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Making Polluters Pay Again
It’s 2002. I’m seven years old and sitting at my dining room table with my mom, eating breakfast and drinking a glass of orange juice. My mom and I are laughing about something when I knock the glass over. The juice spills everywhere – on the table and floor as I stare at the mess in shock. My mom scrambles to the kitchen, grabs paper towels and hands them to me, saying “It’s ok, just clean up your mess.”
This a familiar experience for many of us. We are taught if we make a mess, we should clean it up. Except when it comes to corporations and their pollution in Michigan. For too long, we have
Clean Water Action Releases Report Showing Mon Valley Air Quality Worst in PA
Lack of cleanup for Clairton in US Steel announcement highlighted
Pittsburgh - Clean Water Action released today a report detailing the history of violations of the federal Clean Air Act standards in the Mon Valley over the past 12 years. The results found air quality monitors in the Mon Valley recorded some of the worst air, not just in Allegheny County, but throughout Pennsylvania.
The report details the failure to protect Mon Valley residents from illegal levels of both sulfur dioxide and fine particles, or breathable soot. Over 400 exceedances of federal standards for these pollutants
The Worst Air in Pennsylvania?
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