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DEP Announces Air Quality Action Day
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The Department of Environmental Protection declared a code orange Air Quality Action day for Wednesday in the Pittsburgh area. This includes Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler,...
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Code Orange Air Quality Action Day Forecast For Tuesday
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Tomorrow’s predicted heat could cause problems for certain groups of people and as a result, state environmental officials have called for an air quality action day for the...
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Ozone Aggravates Respiratory Problems
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — With all the hot weather this summer, 2012 has had 13 ozone action days so far – already more than last year’s nine days, seven in 2010 and six in 2009. Breathing ozone can trigger...
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Group Sues Mining Company Over Pollution
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A citizens’ group has sued a longwall mining company in southwestern Pennsylvania, claiming it is polluting key waterways – including at least one high-quality fishing stream – that...
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Homeowners Found Polluting Could Have To Shell Out Thousands
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – It’s a test you might not even know you’ve failed. Letters are going to be going out soon to local homeowners saying they’re polluting local water. It’s part of an effort to keep...
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Generational Child Abuse By Pollution
PITTSBURGH (NewsRadio 1020 KDKA) – Chris Moore was joined by the Professor and Chair of Environmental Health Sciences at UCLA and former CDC Atlanta employee Richard Joseph Jackson on Sunday. Jackson...
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W. Va. Uses Sewer-Sniffing Dogs To Help Fight Pollution
BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) – One West Virginia community has found a valuable new use for a low-tech tool: A dog’s nose is sniffing out the source of sewage-system leaks fouling local waterways. Sable is a...
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Air Quality Orange Alert Issued For Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Elderly people and anyone with respiratory issues are advised to stay indoors this weekend because of poor air quality. The DEP has issued and Orange Air Quality Action Day Forecast...
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Studies Find Methane Gas In Pa. Drinking Water
PITTSBURGH (AP) – New research in Pennsylvania demonstrates that it’s hard to nail down how often natural gas drilling is contaminating drinking water: One study found high levels of methane in some...
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Statewide Plastic Grocery Bags Could Cost 2 Cents Each
PITTSBURGH (NewsRadio 1020 KDKA) – A new bill introduced by State Sen. Daylin Leach could impose a two cent tax on each new plastic bag used by grocery shoppers statewide. Similar regulations take...
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State Senator Proposes Taxing Plastic Bags
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Every year Americans use more than 100 billion plastic bags. Now a Pennsylvania state senator is recycling an old idea — tax those bags to encourage alternatives. At the check-out...
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DEP Cites Deficiencies In FirstEnergy’s Plan To Clean Up Little Blue Run
HOOKSTOWN (KDKA) — From the air it might look like an inviting lake, but Little Blue Run is filled with fly ash and calcium sulfate trapped at FirstEnergy’s Bruce Manfield Plant seven miles away. It’s...
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Experts Push For Sustainable Energy
PITTSBURGH (NewsRadio 1020 KDKA) – Local climate change experts are coming together next month to persuade Pittsburghers to begin using sustainable energy instead of non-renewable energy resources that...
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Many Members Resign From Shenango’s Good Neighbor Working Group
NEVILLE ISLAND (KDKA) — The continued emissions from the DTE Shenango coke works on Neville Island and the failure to resolve pollution issues led to an unusual mass resignation by seven members of...
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Local Experts To Launch Study Regarding High Number Of Asthma Cases
PITTSBURGH (NewsRadio1020 KDKA) – Asthma in children can be dangerous, especially if you live in Pittsburgh. It’s labeled as the 16th most challenging US city in which to live with asthma, by the...
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$415K Given For Asthma Study Of Pittsburgh Kids
PITTSBURGH (AP) – The Heinz Endowments has given researchers $415,000 to study whether asthma rates among Pittsburgh Public Schools students are as bad as school nurses say. As many as half of the...
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State Orders Ash Waste Dump Shut Down
HOOKSTOWN (KDKA) — Little Blue is a two-square mile lagoon containing untold tons of coal combustion waste, and folks who live nearby say it’s made their lives a misery. “You’re homes are worth...
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Shenango Coke Works To Pay $600K Fine In Agreement With Allegheny Co.
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — People who live in Bellevue and Avalon have long complained about pollution from the Shenango Coke Plant on Neville Island. Now, there’s hope that emissions will be better...
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EPA Carbon Pollution Proposal Hearing Announced
PITTSBURGH (KDKA/AP) – Pittsburgh will host one of four national public hearings on the Obama administration’s plan to limit carbon dioxide pollution from electric power plants. The proposal could...
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New Roofing Material On Pitt Building Will ‘Eat’ Pollution
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Roofs — they are all around us, keeping out the elements. Yet roofs are invisible especially on tall buildings that dot the landscape. Now the University of Pittsburgh is...
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