Dave Meckel’s Glassport home is Ground Zero for air pollution in the Mon Valley. Sitting on a quiet back road about 850 yards from U.S. Steel’s Irvin Works on the Monongahela River, the home accumulates its share of black, sooty particulate matter from the plant, as well as from U.S.
The rule would limit how much pollution comes from coke ovens, the primary source of emissions at the coke works. U.S. Steel supports the new rule. But air quality activists say it doesn’t go far enough.