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U.S. Steel's Clairton Plant, the largest coke works in North America, in Clairton, Pa.
February 28, 2024 | 9:58 AM

Allegheny County fines U.S. Steel nearly $2 million for air quality violations

By Betul Tuncer/WESA
At a Jan. 29 press conference, North Braddock resident Edith Abeyta said a settlement involving pollution violations at the Clairton Coke Works could bring about a day "when I do not have to check an air monitor to open my windows."
January 29, 2024 | 4:34 PM

Environmental groups, residents hail ‘historic’ settlement in case against Clairton Coke Works

By Julia Zenkevich/WESA and Chris Potter/WESA
U.S. Steel's Edgar Thomson Works in Braddock, Pa., on Dec. 18, 2023, the day the storied American company announced plans to be acquired by Japan-based Nippon Steel.
December 19, 2023 | 9:31 AM

U.S. Sens. Casey and Fetterman blast planned sale of U.S. Steel

By Chris Potter/WESA
The two new electric locomotives will save 40,000 gallons of diesel fuel a year and emit no CO2.
October 31, 2023 | 9:55 AM

U.S. Steel debuts an all-electric locomotive in Pittsburgh area, a first in North America

By Reid Frazier
The Shenango Coke Works smokestacks before they were imploded in May 2018.
August 3, 2023 | 5:07 PM

ER visits plummet after Shenango Coke Works on Neville Island closed

Over three years, emergency room visits dropped by 61 percent compared with past years.

By Reid Frazier
A Dec. 24, 2018 fire damaged a section of U.S. Steel's Clairton Coke Works. Photo: US Steel
March 29, 2023 | 6:44 PM

U.S. Steel reaches tentative settlement with Allegheny County, groups over air pollution following 2018 fire

The groups had sought $42 million for 102-day pollution control outage that sent emissions soaring.

By Reid Frazier
US Steel's Clairton Coke Works.
March 16, 2023 | 3:14 PM

Allegheny County levees $307K in fines on U.S. Steel for Clairton air pollution violations

By Jillian Forstadt/WESA
US Steel's Clairton Coke Works, near Pittsburgh. Photo: Reid R. Frazier
March 15, 2023 | 12:22 PM

U.S. Steel closing 3 coke batteries at its Clairton Plant. Move is expected to lower emissions

By Reid Frazier
U.S. Steel's Clairton Plant, the largest coke works in North America, in Clairton, Pa.
March 8, 2023 | 10:34 AM

Clean air watchdogs call on the EPA to challenge Clairton plant’s operating permit

By Jillian Forstadt/WESA
US Steel's Clairton Coke plant, as seen from the air in 2017. Photo: Reid R. Frazier
January 6, 2023 | 4:13 PM

Groups, residents want EPA to protect Pittsburgh region from ‘unacceptably high’ levels of benzene pollution from U.S. Steel

A known carcinogen threatens ‘imminent danger’ to residents, groups argue
By Reid Frazier
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