"The current way that coke ovens are regulated, by allowing a certain percentage of leaking equipment and allowable seconds of visible emissions, is insufficient to protect public health," Jay Ting Walker, an organizer from Clean Air Council [and co-chair of the Green Party of Pennsylvania], said during Wednesday's meeting. "The Allegheny County Health Department must do much more to adequately address the environmental injustices resulting from allowing preventable air pollution that burdens the health of nearby residents."
Kellen Stepler | features editor Dec. 2, 2021 It’s hard to find the words to adequately sum up my last semester here on the Bluff. As summer was wrapping up and I was getting ready [.]
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