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A
Hello
and
welcome
to
Pittsburgh
City
Council's
post
agenda
meeting
for
Tuesday
April,
2nd
2019.
My
name
is
Kim
Clark,
Baskin
and
I'm
your
deputy
city
clerk
with
us.
Today
we
have
our
sign
language
interpreter
Nick
Miller.
Today
we
will
have
discussion
at
the
request
of
councilmembers
Corey
O'connor
and
Councilwoman
Erica
Strassburger,
with
discussion
on
air
quality.
B
Good
afternoon
and
welcome
to
City
Council's
post
agenda
meeting
on
air
quality,
Councilman
O'connor
I'll
be
chairing
this.
This
is
co-sponsored
by
a
councilman
Strassburger
who
is
out
on
leave
for
a
couple
more
weeks.
I
want
to
thank
everybody
for
being
here.
I'm
gonna
have
everybody
at
the
table
introduce
themselves
then
we're
just
going
to
have
your
presentations
go
down
the
line
we
hosted.
One
I
want
to
say
a
couple
years
ago
with
regards
to
air
quality
in
our
community,
and
now
with
the
latest,
that's
happened
at
the
Clarion
works
and
some
other
locations.
B
B
C
E
So
I'm
gonna
give
a
presentation:
I'm
gonna,
get
a
look,
give
a
little
bit
of
detail
about
our
air
program,
how
its
structured
and
give
you
a
little
bit
of
data
to
show
you
the
problems
that
we're
facing
here
in
Allegheny
County
and
then
we'll
go
into
the
detail
with
the
enforcement
and
the
permitting
questions
that
I
believe
that
this
council
would
like
to
us
to
discuss
so
the
Allegheny
County
Health
Department
our
ere
program
we've.
Actually
it
would
previous
to
this,
it
was
originated
as
a
City
County
program.
E
You
know
that
happened
about
19
1895,
it's
arguably
the
second
oldest
organization
in
the
country
to
deal
with
air
issues.
We
became
the
Allegheny
County
Health
Department
in
1957
and
currently
in
the
state
of
Pennsylvania.
The
Department
of
Environmental
Protection
is
responsible
for
air
quality
concerns
in
all
counties,
with
exception
of
Allegheny,
County
and
Philadelphia
counties,
and
we
are
delegated
local
air
agencies.
We
have
responsibilities
for
all
aspects
of
the
Clean
Air
Act.
E
Then
one
of
the
reasons
we
have.
That
is
because
our
program
is
actually
predated.
Not
only
state
programs,
but
federal
programs.
Currently
are
we
have
46
staff.
We
have
engineers,
scientists,
administrators,
we're
actually
working
on
expanding
that
staff.
Currently
we're
going
through
a
lot
of
internal
review
evaluating.
Do
we
have
what
we
need
to
actually
operate
as
an
effective
air
program.
E
Now
the
Clean
Air
Act
I'm
not
going
to
get
a
lot
of
detail,
but
what
the
biggest
thing
we're
all
concerned
about
our
criteria,
pollutants
which
we
are
identified
by
EPA
this
there
are
six
of
them,
but
for
Allegheny,
County
and
city
of
Pittsburgh.
What
we're
worried
about
is
ozone,
so2
and
PM
2.5.
The
reason
we're
worried
about
those
pollutants
is
because
we
are
currently
not
meeting
federal
air
quality
standards
for
those
to
recur
those
three
pollutants.
E
Now
ozone
is
technically
meeting
the
standard,
but
the
area
has
not
been
officially
designated
as
meeting
that
standard
with
EPA,
and
so
that's
going
to
be
an
ongoing
challenge,
but
currently,
so2
and
PM
2.5
are
violating
federal
standards
for
air
quality.
Epa
sets
these
standards.
They
change
every
five
years.
I'm
going
to
show
you
some
data.
Next
about
this,
you
pay
once
they
set
the
standards
it's
up
to
the
states
or
local
air
agencies.
Whoever
has
the
jurisdiction
in
that
area
to
to
regulate
those
and
to
meet
those
standards.
E
I'll
talk
to
you
a
little
bit
about
how
we
do
that
at
a
moment.
Now:
air
toxics,
that's
an
that's
a
different
thing:
air
toxics
there's
over
180
about
a
hundred
and
eighty
seven
of
those
those
have
a
different.
Obviously,
they
lead
to
cancer,
know
their
hazards,
health
effects
since
there's
so
many
of
them,
and
is
it
so
difficult
to
monitor
for
those
these
criteria
pollutants?
We
have
a
monitoring
network
that
set
out
across
the
county
to
monitor
the
ambient
exposure
to
that
in
the
open-air
air.
E
Toxics
is
a
little
bit
different
because
that
is
specifically
governed
by
regulations
that
apply
to
the
industry.
So,
if
we're
talking
about
the
coke
oven
rules
and
those
air
toxic
standards
for
the
coke
oven
plants,
they
have
specific
limitations
at
the
plant
for
those
pollutants
which
is
different
from
criteria
pollutants
because
criteria
pollutants.
It
gives
a
limit
for
what
the
ambient
air
can
show
as
level
for
that
pollutant.
E
Now,
our
currently
our
air
program,
we
have
four
programs
we
have
permitting,
and
engineering
and
enforcement,
which
is
what
we're
going
to
be
spending
the
most
time
today
permitting
engineering.
If
you
have
a
industrial
facility,
it
is
subject
to
federal
and
state
and
local
regulations.
The
permit
is
the
place
where
you
put
all
those
regulations.
It's
the
roadmap.
That
facility
needs
to
follow
to
make
sure
it
shows
compliance,
an
enforcement.
E
E
So
when
we
talk
about
so2
and
PM
2.5
being
out
of
attainment,
then
we
have
to
impose
additional
measures
in
our
local
industry
to
show
how
we're
going
to
meet
those
in
what's
called
a
plan
and
that
planning
program
what
they
do
is
every
time
you
PA
sets
a
standard.
We
have
to
put
together
a
group
of
rules
and
we
have
to
model
for
a
future
date
to
show
how
we're
going
to
meet
those
EPA
standards.
E
E
We
have
14
monitoring
locations
in
this
county
is
one
of
the
densest
monitoring
networks
for
a
county
in
the
country,
and
a
lot
of
reasons
for
that
is
because
we
have
a
lot
of
industrial
pollution
in
our
history
and
the
fact
that
we
have
such
complex
terrain
in
meteorology,
and
so
the
monitoring
is
a
little
bit
more
of
a
challenge.
Here.
I
used
to
be
responsible
for
air
quality
planning
for
the
state
of
Georgia.
We
had
a
twenty
County
area.
With
six
million
people,
we
had
the
same
number
of
monitors.
E
We
have
one
County
here,
1.2
million
people,
and
so
that
gives
you
an
idea,
the
the
scale
of
monitoring
that
we
have
going
on
here
in
Allegheny
County.
Now
this
is
a
simplified
iteration.
Just
shows
you
how
everything
connects
together.
So
we'll
start
at
the
top,
and
so
all
of
our
programs
have
to
work
together
and
they
have
feedbacks
and
they
that
and
then
they
have
responsibilities
to
each
other.
So
first,
the
bottom
line
is
we
measure
the
air.
E
We
find
what
the
pollution
levels
are
and
we
determine
what
we
have
to
do
to
identify
those
problems.
How
to
deal
with
that
then
we
develop
a
plan.
Epa
requires
us
plan.
The
Clean
Air
Act
gives
very
specific
requirements.
What
that
plan
requires?
We
develop
an
inventory.
We
model,
we
determine
rules
to
show
how
the
future's,
in
the
future
we're
going
to
meet
those
standards
that
EPA
sets
for
us.
Part
of
that
is
we
educate.
E
We
promote
voluntary
actions,
that's
a
difficult
thing,
because
there
are
some
areas
that
we
have
no
jurisdiction
like
like
rail
industry.
We
can't
really
regulate
the
rail
industry,
and
so
we
have
to
work
with
them
to
see
if
they
will
work
use
any
voluntary
measures,
because
they
are
a
significant
contribution
to
pollution,
and
so
the
main
responsibility
we
have
is
controlling
stationary
sources,
stationary
sources
or
factories
and
Industry
anytime.
E
You
have
a
factor
with
smokestack
or
any
type
of
emissions,
the
atmosphere
you
have
emission
limits,
you
have
federal
state
and
local
requirements,
and
so
that's
where
our
permitting
program
comes
in
and
then
our
compliance
enforcement
comes
in.
Would
they
look
at
data
to
determine
whether
or
not
those
permits
are
meeting
those
standards
that
are
identified
in
the
permit
and
there's
a
lot
of
things
that
they
do?
E
Now
this
is
this:
isn't
a
this
is
a
trend
that
probably
a
lot
of
yous
seen
so
I'll
explain
what
this
is.
So
ozone
is
one
of
those
criteria.
Pollutants
we
talked
about.
Epa
sets
a
standard.
If
you
see
the
red
lines
that
shows
you
periodically.
Epa
changes
those
standards.
Every
time
e
PA
changes
those
standards.
They
have
to
look
at
our
monitors
and
determine
if
our
monitors
are
meeting
those
standards.
E
If
we
are
not
meeting
those
standards-
and
you
can
see
every
time
one
of
those
steps-
we
have
not
met
those
standards,
then
we
have
to
put
together
a
plan
to
bring
the
area
into
attainment
with
those
standards,
and
you
see
it
actually
works
once
you
know,
you've
got
data
that
shows
you're
above
the
red
line.
Epa
determines
area
is
not
attainment,
we
put
together
a
plan,
we
regulate
emissions
more
and
then
we
meet
the
standard
than
EPA
will
change.
E
The
standard
is
because
it's
based
on
the
most
recent
health
data
and
so
EPA
has
a
group
called
CASAC
the
clean
air
advisory
committee.
They
they
look
at
the
available
data
and
determine
whether
those
standards
are
appropriate.
Now
EPA
does
not
have
to
take
their
recommendations,
so
sometimes
the
standards
are
not
set
as
low
as
they
should
be
so
zone.
It's
interesting,
ozone
is
a
regional
component,
and
so
the
state
actually
takes
the
lead
for
ozone,
because
our
non-attainment
area
is
seven
counties.
E
It
because
there's
a
large
contribution
over
a
large
area
so
because
we
are
part
of
a
seven
County
area,
the
state
takes
responsibility
for
that
and
that's
the
Department
of
Environmental
Protection.
Well,
sulfur
dioxide
is
our
problem
because
it
is
a
smaller
area.
Sulfur
dioxide
is
an
interesting
pollutant.
E
Ozone
is
a
regional
pollute
and
it
takes
a
lot
of
pollution
over
a
large
area
because
it
forms
in
the
atmosphere
only
forms
in
the
summertime
in
the
presence
of
combustion
with
NOx
and
volatile
organic
compounds,
volatile
organic
compounds
or
things
like
just
gasoline
vapors,
and
so
with
with
combustion
emissions
and
volatile
organic
compounds.
You
create
ozone
in
summertime,
so
for
dioxide
is
directly
emitted
and
it
is
very
it's
it's
tied
to
specific
industrial
sources.
So
our
problem
for
sulfur
dioxide,
now
the
gaining
county,
is
tied
to
the
u.s.
E
steel,
Iron
Works
and
the
coke
works.
So
we
have
three
facilities
in
the
Mon
Valley
the
USDA
operates.
We
have
the
Edgar
Thompson
blast
furnace,
the
Irving
rolling
mill,
and
then
we
have
the
claritin
coke
works.
All
these
are
very
significant
contributions
to
so2,
so
we
have
two
monitors
in
the
area.
One
of
those
monitors
shows
we're
failing
to
meet
the
standards
for
that
and
the
overall
contribution
from
that
is
from
the
claritin
coke
works.
E
You'll
see
you'll
see
the
red
line
there,
and
only
one
of
them
is
about
the
standard,
and
that
is
our
Liberty
monitor
that
directly
measures
the
emissions
from
the
claritin
coke
works,
PM
2.5
in
most
areas
of
the
country,
PM
2.5,
is
similar
to
ozone,
although
the
majority
of
it
tends
to
be
secondarily
formed
in
most
regions,
it's
usually
about
60%
is
secondarily
formed.
Secondarily
formed
means
there's
chemical
reactions
in
the
atmosphere
that
result
in
PM
2.5
forming
and
it's
usually
nitrates
and
sulfates.
E
Sulfur
compounds
and
nitrogen
compounds
typically
formed
with
ozone,
and
they
form
little
particles
and
those
particles
are
so
small
that
they
effectively
get
so
deep
into
your
lungs.
They
can
actually
cross
into
your
bloodstream,
and
so
that's
why
this
is
a
problem.
However,
in
Allegheny
County
we
have
a
highly
intense
localized
source
of
local
particulate
matters,
a
lot
of
fugitives
and
that
will
be
the
claritin
coke
works
and
so
you'll
see
that
top
line
there.
E
E
Now
here,
here's
the
limits
of
our
of
our
Authority,
so
the
typical
sources
of
pollution.
The
federal
government
is
responsible,
tail
tailpipe
emissions.
Basically,
what
comes
out
of
your
car?
They
can
set
standards
to
reduce
those
emissions.
They
can
set,
like
your
catalytic
converters
and
your
ERG
and
those
types
of
controls
on
your
car,
that
the
federal
government
is
responsible
for
that
they're
also
responsible
for
rail
emissions,
aviation
emissions,
everything
anything
that's
off
road
they're
responsible
for
including
Tugg
emissions.
Those
are
things
we
really
can't
touch
the
the
state.
E
Now
the
state
can
enforce
on-road
vehicle
activity,
they
can
do
HOV
lanes
and
various
things
like
that.
We
call
those
traffic
demand
measures.
That's
the
state
has
limited
ability
to
do
that.
They
have
to
work
with
EPA
to
determine
whether
they
can
do
that,
and
they
also
have
the
ability
to
adopt
consumer
products
rules
and
a
lot
of
times.
Consumer
product
rules
are
associated
with
volatile
organic
compounds,
whether
you
can
buy
paint
or
certain
glues.
That
has
a
component
that
can
volatilize
and
form
ozone
as
well
as
other
pollutants.
E
Now
the
county
overwhelmingly,
our
responsibility
is
for
stationary
industrial
sources,
how
we
control
those,
how
we
apply
the
federal
rules,
the
state
rules
and
any
additional
rules
that
we
are
required
by
our
planning
process
to
show
how
we're
going
to
meet
those
federal
standards,
those
for
those
criteria,
pollutants,
there's
national
humid,
air
quality
standards.
Additionally,
we
we
do
regulate
some
other
areas
of
activity,
most
specifically
open
burning.
We
have
a
very,
very
specific,
open
burning
rule
that
says
what
you
can
do
with
recreational
burning
with
any
type
of
agricultural
burning
or
bonfires.
E
D
So
we
have
with
in
Allegheny
County
30
about
32
major
sources,
70
synthetic
minors
and
310
minor
sources,
I
say
about
because
sometimes
we're
in
the
process
of
a
major
source
wanting
to
become
a
synthetic
minor
or
a
new
source
coming
on
or
a
source
closing
and
that's
happening
continuously.
But
that's
about
that's
pretty
good,
a
stable
number
somewhere
in
that
range
and
we
issue
different
types
of
permits
and
I'm
going
to
talk
about
the
installation
permit
and
an
operating
permit
and
major
and
minor
operating
permit.
D
D
D
So
the
the
process
of
an
installation
permit
is
is
is
as
what's
stayed
up
there.
We
get
a
permit
application
and
we
review.
We
only
have
ten
days
to
review
it
to
make
sure
it's
it's
administrative
leak,
ompletely
neck.
Is
there
all
the
aspects
that
we
require
are
in
the
permit?
Otherwise
it
would
it
would
need
to
go
back
or
if
it's
just
a
minor,
we
will
call
them
and
say
you
know,
fix
it,
just
send
it
in
and
then
our
engineers
then
spend
the
time.
D
What
do
we
know
about
that
source
or
different
kinds
of
sources?
How
do
we
know
how
it
would
operate?
Any
source
needs
to
have
an
installation
permit
before
they
can
even
Campground
to
make
a
change
before
they
build
something
before
they.
You
know
they
could
buy
the
equipment,
but
they
can't
install
the
equipment
they
can.
They
have
to
have
an
installation
permit.
The
purpose
of
that
is
to
make
sure
that
they
don't
spend
a
few
million
dollars
on
a
piece
of
equipment.
D
Then
we
said
oh
yeah,
but
you
really
need
this
piece
instead
of
that
piece,
so
they're
required
to
have
this
permit
in
place
before
they
before
they
begin.
So
we
put
a
priority
on
getting
installation
permits
issued
as
they
come
in
to
make
sure
that
we
get
everything
done
they
required.
They
do
require
a
public
comment
and
a
public
hearing,
and
we
respond
to
all
public
comments.
D
So
we
develop
a
technical
support
document
that
defines
everything
that
any
number
that's
in
the
document,
anything
that
says
any
limits
or
anything
into
the
installation
permit
now
the
operating
permit
then
takes
every
installation
permit
and
that's
the
IP
1
IP
2
ib3,
all
the
installation
permits
and
incorporates
them
into
one
document,
and
then
the
operating
permit
also
then
includes
any
kind
of
source
testing.
That's
required
at
any
time
of
reporting,
that's
required,
and
that
sometimes
would
take
some
time.
So
again
the
source
can
will
submit
a
thank
you
very
much.
D
The
source
will
submit
a
application
for
an
operating
permit
and
again
we
do
a
administrative
leak.
Ompletely
make
sure
everything
is
there.
Then
we
go
through
every
piece
of
equipment
at
that
plant
to
see
what
are
their
limits.
How
are
they
going
to
test
for
that
limit?
How
are
they
going
to
report
for
that
limit?
Are
there
federal
rules
that
are
subject
for
this
particular
piece
of
equipment
or
their
state
or
their
County?
So
all
of
that
goes
into
a
operating
permit
again,
30-day
public
comment
period,
a
public
hearing.
D
We
respond
to
the
comments
we
may
agree
or
disagree.
If
we
agree,
we
may
make
changes
to
the
permit
and
for
major
sources,
EPA
reviews
the
operating
permits
they
do
not
review
them
minor
source.
Permit
then
we
issue
a
permit.
Anyone
can
appeal
a
permit.
They
can,
whether
it's
a
citizen
saying
that
I
object
to
the
controls
or
the
company
saying
we're
being
too
hard
on
them.
There's
there's
a
possibility
of
Appeals.
D
So
this
is
what
about
very
permanent
I'm,
not
gonna,
go
through
this
very
much,
but
this
is
the
the
the
aspects
of
an
operating
frame,
just
as
I
said
that
what
the
limits
are
across
the
plant
where
the
limits
are
for
each
piece
of
equipment.
What
is
the
emission
rate
limit
for
each
piece
of
equipment
and
then
what
is
the
emission
rate
across
the
entire
plant?
What
are
the
limits
now?
This
is
a
question
to
keep
it's
coming
up
that
all
permit
operating
permits
have
a
five-year
life.
D
Now
we
have
some
permits
that
have
expired
and
that's
the
term
has
expired.
However,
if
the
source
is
submitted
a
new
application,
it
can
continue
to
operate
controlled
by
the
last
issued
operating
permit
and
every
installation
permit
and,
of
course,
there's
to
always
subject
to
all
our
rules
and
regulations,
federal
state
and
local
rules
and
regulations.
D
D
There
are
extra
requirements
to
a
major
source.
No,
we
called
them
in
our
regulations,
major
sources.
It's
called
a
title
five
because
its
title
five
of
the
Clean
Air
Act.
So
there
are
their
requirements.
There
are
actually
minor
sources,
lower
emitting
sources
that
are
required
to
have
a
title,
five
permit
by
federal
rule.
So
we
have
a
number
of
those.
E
So
title
five
permit
just
to
be
very
clear:
it's
a
federal
requirement.
All
all
agencies
actually
have
operating
permits,
and
so
with
the
Clean
Air
Act
requirements
of
1990
EPA
decided
that
they
wanted
to
make
their
all
of
the
the
state
and
local
agencies
permits
enforceable.
So
they
determined
a
standardized
format
that
all
permits
have
to
meet,
and
that's
that's
how
the
title
5
program
came
about.
E
They
put
in
arbitrary
numbers
about
the
amount
of
time
that
you
need
to
put
together
title
5,
because
the
title
of
our
permit
had
never
existed
before,
and
so
they
required
that
these
title
files
be
issued
in
18
months,
not
understanding
the
significant
challenges
with
all
of
the
regulations
being
thrown
into
a
test.
Anodized
template
at
the
time
and.
D
So
that
leads
to
this
graph
here-
and
this
is
looking
at
a
backlog
of
our
title,
five
operating
primer
and
you
may
have
heard
that
we
had
a
backlog
of
reissuance
and
issuance
of
our
title
five
permits
this
has
been.
This
is
actually
a
chronic
problem
across
the
country,
as
Jim
said,
no
one
could
get
them
done
within
18
months.
Epa's
average
is
three
years
to
get
it
to
get
a
permit
out.
So
it's
but
we've
been
working
on.
We
had
a
significant
backlog,
as
you
see
from
the
far
left
from
from
July
2016.
D
Only
30
about
35%
of
our
permits
were
up
to
date
at
that
time.
Soon,
after
that,
we
had
a
change
of
management
to
change
the
supervision
of
the
of
the
plant.
We
had
the
opportunity
that
our
present
permit
manager
not
only
is
a
licensed
professional
engineer,
but
she
also
has
an
MBA.
So
we
had
the
advantage
of
her
creativity
to
reassign
work,
to
look
at
how
to
streamline
and
get
things
moving
and
to
improve
this.
D
On
top
of
that
EPA,
we
worked
with
EPA
to
come
up
with
a
plan
on
how
to
improve
our
permit
issuance
and
we
hired
a
consultant
consultant
came
in
and
did
a
manpower
evaluation
of
what?
What
kind
of
staffing
would
we
need
to
to
really
get
everything
back
in
order
and
get
us
back
to
where
we
should
be
we're
not
there.
D
Yet,
as
you
can
see,
the
blue
is
the
issued
permits
they're
in
place,
the
green
right
below
it
or
those
who
have
expired,
but
they're
within
the
18-month
window
that
EPA
expects
us
to
be
in
yellow,
is,
is
yellow
and
is
the
those
that
have
been
sitting
there
longer
than
18
months
and
the
red
ones
are
the
uninsured
once
and
I'll
talk
a
little
bit
about
them
in
a
bit.
In
fact,
I'll
talk
about
it
right
now.
D
D
The
two
permits
that
have
expired,
as
we
saw
on
that
other
chart
555
permits
that
have
expired
greater
than
18
months.
Three
of
them
are
presently
in
public
comment.
As
I
said.
That's
the
30-day
public
comment
through
the
end
of
March
and
then
we'll
still
have
to
go
if
through
EPA
review
and
issuance,
and
one
is
NEPA
review
right
now
now
the
four
that
were
never
issued
to
our
major
sources
that
have
compliance
issues,
one
is
on
our
consent.
D
Order
with
EPA
and
us,
and
one
is-
is-
has
a
number
of
compliance
and
problems
with
EPA
trying
to
resolve
with
them
two
more
minor
sources
that
are
required
to
have
title
five
permits.
As
I
said,
you
can
be
in
that
situation.
One
of
those
is
also
has
an
appliance
issue
that
we're
trying
to
resolve
the
other
one
we're
just
trying
to
get
finished
up
and
it's
it
should
be
out
sometime
soon.
So
there
we
that's,
where
we
are
on
getting
toward
our
schedule
of
compliance
of
title
5
permits.
D
So
then
we
move
on
to
our
enforcement
staff
because
our
Forsman
gets
these
permits
and
they
have
to
make
sure
that
they
are
enforced
and
so
there's
many
ways
to
enforce
a
permit
to
enforce
our
regulations
to
enforce
any
kind
of
health
issues.
We
have
our
scheduled
events,
our
inspections.
We
have
unscheduled
events,
sources
required
to
turn
in
a
lot
of
reports,
complaint
resolution
and
I'll
talk
about
the
legal
remedies.
D
Major
sources
are
required
by
federal
role
to
be
inspected
every
two
years
again
we
have
32
sources,
so
16
get
reviewed
every
every
every
year.
This
is
a
very
extensive.
It
can
take
up
to
several
months
to
do
a
full
inspection,
because
you're
checking
every
every
emission
point
you're
going
through
the
plant
and
you're
checking
every
report
and
every
document
is
it's
a
very
extensive
inspection,
but
you
can
do
many
minor
inspect,
just
taking
stack
tests
and
stuff.
So
look
at
what's
happening
again.
D
All
kinds
of
reports-
I-
don't
want
to
go
through
that
it's
kind
of
boring
resolution
we
receive
about
a
thousand
complaints
in
a
year
give
or
take
depending
on
the
year
depends
on
the
issues
we
try
to
deal
with
the
claims
as
fast
as
we
can,
or
as
practical
as
we
can.
If
they
come
in
all
about
one
one
source
at
one
time,
we
can
deal
with
them
together,
we
could
get
a
lot
of
a
lot
of
general.
It
smells
there's,
not
a
lot.
D
We
can
do
with
that
information,
but
we
do
care
and
carry
that
information
into
our
statistics.
We
also
use
the
smell
Pittsburgh
reports
more
as
statistical
as
are
their
growing
problems
are
their
issues
and
they
get
significant
number
of
reports.
So
it
helps
us
to
develop
trends
and
what's
what's
happening
out
there
I.
C
D
Now,
what
can
we
enforce
when
we
have
when
we
have
something
that
can
enforce
a
notice
of
violation?
Is
that
there's
nope
there's
no
penalty
involved?
There's
no
action
involved,
we're
saying
we
know
that
you
did
this.
We
weren't
telling
you
that
we
did
this,
don't
do
it
anymore,
but
there's
no
require
there's
no
action.
The
enforcement
action
can
be
an
order.
It
can
be
agreement
with
the
company.
We
can
go
to
court
to
have
a
court
settle
it
to
resolve
it.
We
have
any
kind
of
an
forcement
action.
D
D
Waiting
final
payment
or
corrective
action
about
half
of
them
are
ones
that
were
just
issued
in
the
last
month,
a
month
and
a
half
that
haven't
been
paid
yet
the
other
half
are
ones
that
required
additional
controls
or
a
conditional
monitoring
device
or
a
contrition
some
sort
of
action.
So
we're
waiting
for
those
actions
to
come
in
place
well,
I,
actually
just
last
week,
signed
six
more,
so
these
numbers
again
change
significantly
over
time.
We
have
several
actions
that
are
in
appeal.
An
appeal
can
take
a
great
deal
of
time.
Working
could
take.
D
D
E
I'm
going
to
talk
about
our
enforcement
policy,
which
we
revised
in
2018
I've,
been
in
this
position
about
two
years,
and
our
solicitor
has
been
in
this
position
a
short
time
before
I
was
in
this
position
he's
actually
here
today,
Michael
Parker
with
him
and
his
new
staff
of
assistant,
solicitors.
We
looked
at
how
we
were
doing
enforcement
in
environment,
mental
health
and
we
decided
we
really
needed
something.
That
was
a
little
bit
more
robust.
Well,
a
lot
more
robust.
We
needed
to
be
very
specific.
E
We
needed
to
make
sure
that
all
of
our
enforcement
activities
were
standardized
and
make
sure
that
they
were
defensible
and
as
well
as
give
an
opportunity
for
a
lot
more
transparency
on
how
we
are
determined,
determining
our
penalties,
and
so
the
result
was
in
2018.
We
revised
our
enforcement
policy.
It's
a
policy
that
is
on
a
website.
Everybody
has
the
opportunity
to
look
at
it,
so
they
understand
what
it
is
that
we
take
into
consideration.
E
We
do
these
enforcement
activities,
you
know
it
denta
Phi's,
some
of
the
things
we've
approved
upon
whether
or
not
the
emissions
from
say
release
is
toxic
or
not.
There's
a
compounding
factor
for
that.
If
it's
an
ongoing
problem
with
repeatability,
there's
like
there's
a
there's,
a
factor
with
which
it
compounds
that-
and
so
that's
one
of
the
reasons
why
currently,
with
this
issue
with
us
deal
in
this
fire,
we
haven't
issued
any
monetary
penalties
yet
because
every
day
is
a
new
penalty
calculation,
because
it
what
it
does
is
it
compounds
everything
before
that.
E
So
if
we
were
to
issue
a
penalty
today
under
our
penalty
policy
for
us
deal
because
the
emissions
from
the
fire
will
tomorrow,
we
don't
throw
that
out
start
all
over
again
and
just
issue
a
new
penalty,
and
again
this
is
for
monetary
penalties.
So
this
is
for
what
we
call
our
civil
penalties,
and
so
the
calculation
includes
a
lot
of
things
from
article
well,
everything
from
article
21.
What
weren't
sure
that
article
21
again
is
our
air
pollution
rules
that
are
applied
to
Allegheny
County
and
fortunately
it's
very
specific.
E
It
shows
you
what
it
is.
You
need
to
take
into
consideration
things
like
willfulness
the
size
of
the
source
and
the
ability
to
pay
the
compliance
history,
which
is
a
really
important
thing.
That
really
is
one
of
those
factors
that
allows
the
penalties
to
increase,
really
quickly
degree
of
cooperation,
speed
of
compliance.
You
know
these
are
a
number
of
things
and
these
are
all
spelled
out
by
regulation,
and
so
our
policy
takes
these
and
identifies
how
we
are
going
to
apply
those
in
determining
penalties.
E
So
that
brings
us
to
US
Steel
Clairton
works,
which
is
the
focus
of
a
lot
of
our
enforcement
activity.
Right
now,
so
I'm
going
to
go
over
some
of
the
big
ones,
the
2016
consent
judgment,
which
was
actually
before
I,
was
involved
in
making
these
decisions
will
probably
be
our
last
consent
judgment
ever
with
us
deal
and
that's
important,
because
a
consent
judgment
is
where
both
sides
are
to
agree
to
certain
terms.
E
We
were
having
problems
with
us
deal,
we're
noticing
that
their
their
compliance
rates
were
slipping
and
as
well
as
that
monitor
that
I
showed
you
at
Liberty.
I
didn't
quite
point
that
out,
but
there's
been
an
upward
trend
since
2014.
This
shows
that
air
quality
is
getting
worse
and
so
apparently
the
way
we're
doing
things
before
it
just
wasn't
working.
So
we
revised
our
penalty
policy
and
then
in
2018
we
created
an
enforcement
order
and
one
of
the
reasons
that
enforcement
order
was
put
in
place.
Again.
E
We
had
those
issues
with
the
PM
monitor,
but,
more
importantly,
compliance
at
the
facility
was
was
getting
worse.
We
had
a
time
I
believe
in
2014,
where
maybe
they
had
less
than
20
violations
in
a
quarter,
then
we
had
a
quarter
in
2017.
They
had
over
200,
so
that's
degrading
compliance,
and
so
we
needed
to
do
something
about
that.
So,
in
addition,
in
this
2018
of
horsemen
order,
in
addition
to
applying
those
civil
penalties
from
that
policy
which
applied
those
monetary
requirements,
we
did
something
new
that
we
have
never
done
before.
E
We
actually
apply
to
REM,
and
so
it
was
this
order
required
us
steel
to
show
improvements
in
two
consecutive
quarters
in
2019
or
to
start
hot
idling
tour,
their
worst
performing
batteries,
and
that
was
really
important
because
that
this
showed
not
only
you,
you
pay
the
penalty,
but
you
also
have
to
do
something
to
improve
the
situation
and
said
that
this
was
a
new
it.
This
was
a
new
approach
for
us.
E
Not
only
was
it
unilateral,
which
was
also
a
new
approach,
the
new
penalty
policy,
but
the
fact
that
we
required
this
remedy
and
that
that's
something
that's
the
big
takeaway.
It
was
a
million
dollar
penalty.
But
to
us
that
wasn't
the
most
important
thing
it
was
that
requirement
to
show
improvement
or
take
equipment
offline.
So
under
new
penalty
policy,
in
the
second
quarter
of
2018,
we
issued
another
six
hundred
thousand
dollar
penalty
for
violations.
E
You'll
see
that
there
were
160
violations
in
the
second
quarter,
which
was
unfortunate
because,
under
the
terms
enforcement
order,
this
first
to
the
the
2018
of
foreigner
covers
two
quarters
in
the
last
quarter
was,
which
was
the
first
quarter
of
2018,
actually
had
only
a
hundred
and
fifty
some
violations,
so
violations
were
for
getting
worse.
However,.
B
E
So
what
I'm
showing
here
is,
you
know
we
have
we're
increasing
our
violations
where
we
continue
to
issue
issue
penalties.
The
u.s.
claritin
cope,
works.
Fire
I'll
go
through
this
quick
as
possible
bad
on
on
Christmas
Eve.
They
had
a
fire,
the
number
to
control
gas
room.
So
what
that
did
is
took
off,
took
away
their
ability
to
remove
tars
and
oils
and
out
in
other
chemicals,
and
because
of
that
they
could
not
go
to
their
sulphur
removal
process,
and
so
since
then
they
have
been
processing
raw
coke,
oven
gas.
Why?
That
is
significant.
E
Rocco
Kevin
gas
is
a
product
of
coking.
It
is
considered
the
go
coming.
Gas
itself
is
a
toxic
includes
a
lot
of
toxics
and
so
they're
requirements
for
that
gas
can
be
conditioned,
they're
no
longer
conditioning
that
they're
burning
it
directly
there
that
we
have
required
them
to
extend
their
coking
times.
E
J
E
What
happens?
Is
you
put
coal
in
an
oven?
You
heat
it
for
about
18
hours,
1800
degrees.
As
it's
being
heated
that
gas
is
collected
that
gas
under
normal
operation.
It
goes
to
a
facility
that
burned
down
that
removes
a
lot
of
chemical
constituents
from
that,
and
then
it
goes
to
another
facility
that
removes
the
sulfur
compounds
from
that
then
that
gas,
once
it's
clean,
goes
back
into
the
facility
to
be
burned.
None
of
that
removal
of
any
of
those
constituents
is
happening
is
just
being
it's.
E
E
In
recent,
we
issued
an
order
for
them
to
to
speed
it
up.
They
provided
some
information
so
that
it
certain
things
were
practically
impossible.
We
reissued
the
order
and
currently
they're
supposed
to
have
the
entire
facility
back
online
by
4:15.
What
we
understand
it
actually
might
even
be
this
week,
asbestos.
A
E
These
okay
yeah,
so
this
is
so
one
of
the
things
people
don't
realize.
Is
we
managed
asbestos?
If
you
do
demolition
or
construction
renovations
you
have
to
do
is
bestest.
We
do
a
lot
of
permits,
but
I
think
this
is
what's
really
important
for
us
for
this
group
here
today.
You'll
see
this
this
column
on
the
left
and
the
column
on
the
right
commercial
renovations,
almost
overwhelmingly
considering
the
building
stock
should
have
asbestos
permits.
E
You'll
see
the
number
that
we
received
for
the
city
of
Pittsburgh
high
403,
as
opposed
to
1350,
for
that's
a
problem.
Something
is
going
on
here
and
what
we've?
What
we
understand
is
the
city
of
Pittsburgh
they're,
your
building
process,
your
building
permit.
It
does
not
have
a
sign-off
respess
tiss
everything
else,
whether
it's
plumbing,
whether
it's
electrical.
So
when
you
give
that
permit
to
someone
to
build.
No
one
knows
that
you
have
to
remove
asbestos.
Asbestos
is
the
problem,
because
Pennsylvania
is
one
of
the
worst
states
in
the
country
for
asbestos
mortality.
E
F
Okay,
I
will
endeavour
to
be
brief.
I
don't
have
any
slides,
so
I
don't
need
that
so
again,
I'm
Neil
Donohue
and
from
Carnegie
Mellon
University
and
just
as
a
little
more
background,
I
was
actually
born
in
Montefiore
hospital
in
1963
my
parents
came
through
first,
they
moved
to
Pittsburgh,
just
after
the
Second
World
War
they
came
through
during
the
war
when
we
were
held
with
a
lid
off
famously
so
I
I
know
all
the
sides
of
Pittsburgh
and
and
I'm
from
here
and
I
love
the
town.
F
Also
our
Center,
the
Center
for
Atmospheric
particle
studies
at
CMU
without
trying
to
be
too
boastful,
is
arguably
the
best
research
center
in
the
world
on
this
problem.
So
we
are.
We
are
genuinely
world
experts
on
the
on
the
science
behind
what
Jim
was
talking
about,
and
in
fact
at
present
we
have
a
we
have
the
center.
F
We
call
the
Center
for
air
climate
and
energy
solutions,
which
is
a
$10,000,000
Center,
funded
by
the
US
Environmental
Protection
Agency,
to
continue
to
investigate
the
air
pollution
and
health
and
and
I'll
use
some
of
the
findings
from
that
study.
Here
we've
been
doing
this
for
a
while,
so
we
we
also
had
a
center
an
EPA
funded
Pittsburgh
air
quality
study
in
2001
that
that
measurements
station
behind
the
fourth
green
on
the
Bob
O'connor
golf
course
back
in
2001.
That
was
us.
F
We
we
are
responsible
for
the
so
called
ramp
sensors,
which
are
around
Allegheny
County
I
participated
in
the
air
toxics
review
that
I
believe
was
chaired
by
by
Don
Burke
a
few
years
back
for
the
Allegheny
County
Health
Board,
and
we've
done
several
projects
funded
by
the
the
Clean
Air
Fund,
including
an
ongoing
study
of
the
dispersion
of
so2
in
the
Mon
Valley.
The
P
I
of
that
is
my
actually
my
first
doctoral
student,
Albert
Presto
who's
also
on
our
faculty.
F
So
in
just
a
few
brief
points
that
are
the
summary
of
all
the
science
that
we've
done
in
the
implications
of
that
science.
The
first
thing
you
should
know
is
that
there's
approximately
a
conservative
estimate,
it
says
about
two
hundred
and
fifty
attributable
deaths
each
year
in
Allegheny
County
from
exposure
to
two
fine
particulate
matter,
the
PM
2.5
that
that
Jim
was
talking
about.
If
you.
F
That
corresponds
to
about
two
and
a
half
billion
dollars
a
year
in
environmental
damages.
It's
an
enormous
number
right.
That's
twice
the
county
budget
I
said
an
F
billion
right
and
if
I
said
million,
that
was
a
mistake.
It's
about
six
hundred
million
a
year
in
Pittsburgh
on
a
per
person
basis
again
comparable
to
the
budget
in
terms
of
environmental
damages
from
that
exposure
by
comparison,
there's
about
80
fatalities
from
homicide
in
the
county
each
year,
there's
about
80
fatalities
from
traffic
incidents.
F
So
we're
talking
many
times
that
combined
it's
aborted,
the
opioid
epidemic,
so
there's
a
calamity
of
the
highest
order.
When
you
look
at
it
in
that.
In
that
context,
as
I
say,
that's
a
conservative
estimate
and
most
of
that
that
mortality
is
in
the
form
of
heart
attacks
and
strokes.
So
that's
what
the
the
deposition
of
fine
particles
and
the
deep
lung
ultimately
triggers
is
a
systemic
inflammatory
response
that
that
increases
significantly
the
risk
to
heart
attack
and
stroke.
F
It's
also
possible
I
told
you.
I
was
born
here
when
in
it
when
air
quality
was
was
dramatically
worse,
and
it's
not
that
hard
to
keep
in
mind
that
the
the
two
bits
we've
come
a
long
way
so
has
also
as
much
of
the
rest
of
the
United
States,
but
also
we
still
have
a
very
significant
air
pollution
problem
in
the
county
that
that
I
just
described
those
things
are
not
contradictory.
F
They're,
both
true
it's
about
50
percent
cleaner
than
it
was
in
2000
when
we
had
that
study
with
it
with
this
station
in
the
golf
course
largely
because
the
concentrations
of
the
of
the
sulfates
that
Jim
was
mentioning,
have
gone
way
down
in
that
20-year
period.
So
actually
the
most
common
constituents
and
fine
particles
that
we
measure
now
not
nitrates
and
sulfates,
but
rather
organic
compounds
by
a
web
rather
wide
margin.
But
still
much
of
that
organic
material
has
been
chemically
processed
in
the
atmosphere
as
Jim
was
talking
about.
F
F
So
if
you
take
those
so-called
gross
environmental
damages
and
put
them
into
your
calculation
of
how
we're
doing,
and
then
you
look
at
the
consequences
of
the
improvements
in
air
quality
that
we've
had
since
2000
since
1980
since
1963
and
before
you
get
to
I
mean
our
damages,
now
are
a
couple
billion
dollars
a
year
in
the
county.
The
avoided
damages
from
the
improvement
in
air
quality
are
much
higher.
F
So
if
you
factor
those
into
calculations
on
a
national
level,
you're
looking
at
numbers
that
are
close
to
a
point
in
GDP
of
improved
economic
growth
due
to
that
investment
in
air
quality,
it's
not
a
trivial
number,
and
this
is
research
that
my
colleague
Nick
Muller,
has
has
done.
He's
the
the
Leicester
llave
professor
of
environmental
economics,
at
CMU
and
in
our
Center,
so
considering
that
in
the
policy
is
in
the
very
least
and
important
thing
to
do.
F
You
have
exposure
to
industrial
sources
as
well.
So,
especially
when
you
look
at
it
on
a
number
basis,
those
primary
fresh
nearby
emissions
are
a
really
major
contributor,
other
things
too,
that
are
quite
significant.
The
the
Port
Authority
buses.
So
our
we're
just
we're
finishing
a
study
that
looks
at
the
risk
associated
with
exposure
to
buses
from
the
rear
end,
not
the
front
of
the
buses,
but
the
back
of
the
bus
is
to
kill
about
one
or
two
people
a
year
in
the
county,
and
the
exposure
to
to
emissions
from
buses
is
actually
about.
F
Sixty
percent
higher,
when
you
account
for
the
fact
that
that
buses
go
where
people
are.
That's
a
good
thing
right.
That's
what
they're
supposed
to
do,
but
that
that
that
what
we
call
the
covariance
the
fact
that
the
buses
are
nearby
they're
in
Market,
Square
they're
in
heavily
populated
areas.
And
when
you
look
at
things
like
that,
the
Oakland
downtown
corridor,
investments
in
in
clean
buses
there
and
electrified
buses
make
an
enormous
amount
of
sense
and
would
go
a
long
way
toward
to
it.
F
So
when
we
think
about
the
benef
things
like
the
cap
3.0
the
climate
action
plan,
many
of
those
benefits
are
going
to
be
once
we
fully
decarbonized
the
the
economy
in
in
the
eastern
United
States
and
in
Pittsburgh
we'll
be
looking
at
a
voiding
of
order,
200
of
those
deaths.
So
again,
if
you
monetize
that
locally,
you
see
that
the
benefits
of
things
like
like
sensible
climate
action
are
actually
enormous
and
local,
and
it's
not
just
altruistically
doing
things
to
save
the
planet.
B
B
Yeah
I,
just
sorry
we
don't
have
pronounce
of
them,
but
can
you
get
them
to
us
after
everybody
yeah.
K
A
K
Especially
when
we're
demoing
and
the
cost
had
escalated
from
about
13,000
to
about
43,000
and
part
of
that
I
understand
was
a
an
agreement.
We
had
with
a
county
for
a
shared
services
contract
which
helped
escalate
that
price
to
a
certain
point,
but
that
that
has
expired
and
and
we
are
able
to
to
come
in
to
the
lower
cost
to
do
asbestos
remediation
now.
K
C
Right
but
I
think
you're
talking
I.
Think,
though,
he's
talking
about
something
different,
I
think
you're
actually
talking
about
how
much
one
is
paying
for
the
remediation
and
I.
Don't
know
that
we
know
if
there
was
a
relationship
with
the
county
where
they
were
able
to
pay
together.
I
don't
know
the
answer
to.
L
G
Hosting
and
to
all
the
councilmembers
who
came
out,
thank
you
so
much.
My
name
is
Ashley
Deemer
I
am
the
western
Pennsylvania
director
for
Penn
environment
Penn
environment
is
a
statewide
environmental
advocacy
organization
and
we
work
to
protect
our
air,
water
and
open
spaces
here
in
Pittsburgh
and
Philadelphia
and
all
the
places
in
between
that's
okay.
G
So
what
I'd
like
to
talk
about
today
is
the
tremendous
work
that
the
whole
coalition
of
organizations
working
on
this
issue
have
been
doing.
Certainly,
Penn
environment
has
had
a
role
in
that,
but
other
organizations
like
gas
but
Clean
Water
Action,
the
Breathe
project,
clean
air
council
and
others
that
I'm
I'm
missing
right
now
have
been
instrumental
in
a
lot
of
the
community
organizing
that
has
been
done
on
this
issue.
G
G
So
this
is
the
type
of
work
that
the
Coalition
has
been
doing.
The
first
thing
that
we
need,
like
with
any
organizing
effort,
is
to
have
messaging
that
resonates
with
the
community
and
motivates
people
to
take
actions.
So
the
very
first
thing
we
know
is
that
all
people
have
a
right
to
clean
air,
and
we
know
that
this
is
a
message
that
everybody
understands
it's
simple
and
it
makes
sense
to
all
of
us.
We
also
know
that
health
based
messaging
is
really
important
in
motivating
people
to
take
action
and
speak
out.
G
We
know
that
Allegheny
County
is
ranked
in
the
2%
of
u.s.
counties
with
the
highest
cancer
risk
from
air
pollution.
We
know
that
rates
of
asthma
among
kids
at
our
most
polluted
school
districts
in
the
county
have
a
22
percent
asthma
rate.
That's
compared
to
a
10
percent
asthma
rate
at
the
state
level
and
eight
percent
at
the
national
level,
and
we
also
need
that.
G
We
know
that
we
need
health,
protective
laws
and
enforcement
of
those
laws
to
get
cleaner
air,
and
so
that
solutions
piece
is
part
of
what
motivates
people
to
not
just
feel
helpless,
but
to
take
action.
So
one
of
the
ways
that
we
bolster
the
messaging
that
the
coalition
use
uses
is
through
research.
G
So,
first
we
have
a
lot
of
incredible
public
health
professionals
in
the
region,
researchers
who
work
at
our
universities
and
our
hospitals,
who
have
the
resources
to
examine
public
health
data
that
we
have
and
work
directly
with
people
in
communities
that
are
impacted
by
air
pollution
pictured
there
you
see
dr.
Debra
Gentile.
She
is
an
asthma
researcher
and
she
works
with
kids
in
communities
that
are
in
the
shadow
of
major
polluters,
including
Clairton,
and
she
has
identified
many
of
these
disparities
in
asthma
rate
and
kids.
G
Penn
environment
has
also
issued
several
reports
on
existing
data.
One
thing
that
you
see
there
with
the
map
is
our
toxic
ten
report,
which
has
identified
the
ten
most
toxic
industrial
facilities
in
Allegheny
County.
You
can
go
on
toxic,
ten
org
and
search
any
address
of
your
home,
your
school,
your
workplace,
to
see
just
how
far
you
are
from
any
of
these
polluters
and
what
chemical
compounds
they're
emitting
into
the
air
and
exactly
what
the
health
impacts
of
those
pollutants
are.
G
We've
also
put
out
a
report
called
trouble
in
the
air
which
takes
EPA
data
and
translates
that
into
easy-to-understand
facts.
So
we
know
that
in
20
sixteen
Pittsburgh
had
121
unhealthy
air
days.
That
means
we
had
elevated
particulate
pollution,
an
elevated
ozone
which
made
it
unhealthy
for
some
sensitive
populations
to
breathe.
That's
one
out
of
every
three
days,
so
we
know
that's
a
really
important
fact
that
we
need
to
get
out
in
the
public.
G
We
also
you
know,
there's
a
category
of
research
called
citizen
science
that
I
think
mark
will
talk
more
about
and
that
Neil
mentioned.
But
there
you
know,
there's
a
network
of
home
based
and
community
monitors
out
there
that
collect
pollution
data.
We
have
the
smell
Pittsburgh
app,
which
allows
people
to
report,
how
they're
personally
being
impacted
by
pollution
on
a
daily
basis,
and
that
helps
us
understand,
trends
and
pollution
where
pollution
is
traveling
and
again
what
the
day-to-day
quality
of
life
impacts
are
for
people.
G
So
all
of
these
things
combined,
we
have
a
really
growing
mountain
of
evidence
that
air
pollution
is
impacting
the
people
living
in
our
region
beyond
mortality
and
acute
health
impacts.
It
is
impacting
quality
of
life,
so
we
use
all
that
data
and
we
take
it
out
to
the
public,
because
we
think
it's
really
important
that
people
understand
the
issue
that
people
understand
where
the
polluters
are
and
what
the
solutions
are.
G
We
also
go
out
to
public
meetings
and
events,
so
you
all
are
in
many
ways
much
more
connected
to
your
communities
than
our
groups
are,
and
so
you
are
the
connector
there
and
if
there
are
meetings
in
your
communities
block,
watches
community
councils
that
need
to
hear
about
this
issue.
Please
by
all
means
that
are
coalition
no,
and
there
will
be
a
group
who
will
be
happy
to
come
out
and
give
a
presentation.
G
We
also
educate
the
public
in
a
broader
way
through
media
coverage.
We
can
reach
thousands
tens
of
thousands
of
people
by
having
press
conferences
about
the
reports
and
research
that
I
mentioned,
or
new
developments
on
this
issue
and
when
those
are
covered
by
the
Post
Gazette
or
the
Tribune,
Review
or
KDKA
we're
reaching
the
the
broad
region
that
makes
up
Pittsburgh
and
so
we're
educating
people
in
a
you
know.
A
faster
and
bigger
way
through
media
and
I
should
also
mention,
while
we're
talking
about
media
coverage.
We
also
use
the
opinion
pages
right.
G
So
if
we
see
a
piece
of
this
issue
that
is
not
being
covered
or
is
not
getting
the
attention
that
we
think
it
deserves,
many
of
our
groups
will
write
letters
to
the
editor.
There
are
so
many
volunteers
in
this
movement
who
respond
to
news
stories
that
maybe
mischaracterized
the
issue
or
underestimate
the
issue,
and
so
we
interact
with
the
public
in
that
way
as
well,
and
then,
of
course,
when
you
have
an
educated
and
informed
public,
they
want
to
know
what
they
can
do,
because
Pittsburghers
always
want
to
know
how
they
can
help.
G
And
so
we
work
to
plug
people
into
opportunities
to
let
their
decision
makers
and
county
officials
and
state
and
federal
officials
know
that
they
want
cleaner
air.
One
of
the
simplest
things
people
can
do
is
to
sign
a
petition
in
support
of
cleaner
air
and
and
in
support
of
strong
enforcement
of
the
law,
strong
laws
and
so
anytime,
we're
out
at
a
public
meeting
or
in
the
community
or
at
people's
doors.
G
We
have
a
petition
for
folks
to
sign
about
over
3,000
people
have
signed
a
petition
in
support
of
clean
air
over
the
last
year
and
we'll
be
doing
more
of
that
outreach
this
year.
All
of
our
groups
do
this
in
some
form.
We
also
work
to
create
spaces
for
public
comment
to
make
sure
our
communities
are
heard.
G
On
this
issue,
so
one
example
of
that
is
with
ati
or
Allegheny
technologies
inc
there
in
Brackenridge,
there
number
two
on
our
list
of
toxic
10
facilities,
but
they've
never
had
the
necessary
permits
to
operate
under
the
Clean,
Air
Act
and
so
in
December
of
2017.
The
Allegheny
County
Health
Department
issued
a
draft
permit,
which
is
progress
and
a
good
thing,
and
the
only
hearing
on
it,
however,
was
in
Lawrenceville
and
Brackenridge
is
a
long
way
from
Lawrenceville
and
so
Penn
environment.
G
Gasped,
clean
air
council
worked
together
to
organize
a
community
hearing
in
Brackenridge
to
make
sure
those
folks
had
an
opportunity
to
provide
feedback
on
the
draft
permit
about
50
people
showed
up
and
packed
the
room
and
everyone
there
was
in
support
of
clean
airs.
So
we
know
that
when
we
provide
people
the
opportunity
to
speak
out,
they
do,
and
it's
always
in
favor
of
progress
on
this
issue
and
as
you
can
see,
there,
we've
also
been
doing
a
number
of
rallies.
Over
the
last
year,
we've
had
over
time.
G
Hundreds
of
people
come
out
to
these
rallies
downtown,
typically
at
lunch
time
so
that
everyone
working
downtown
can
see,
and
our
elected
officials
can
see
that
people
support
clean
air
we've
had
a
lot
of
great
community
leaders
come
out
and
speak
on
this
issue
at
these
rallies,
including
state
representative
Summerlee,
you
can
see
their
state
representative,
Sarah
enamorado.
We've
also
had
representatives
of
kind
of
controller
tosyl
Wagner's
office
and
our
very
own
Councilwoman
Deb
gross.
G
We
also
know
that
one
way
we
can
take
the
fight
directly
to
polluters
is
through
legal
action.
You
see
here
this
is
a
polluter,
not
in
Allegheny
County.
It's
just
over
the
allegheny
county
line
in
Monessen.
This
is
the
ArcelorMittal
cook
plant
that
reopened
after
several
years
of
the
plant
being
idled
and
it
reopened
and
started
up
operations,
but
didn't
have
all
of
the
necessary
pollution
controls
in
place,
and
so,
as
you
can
see
there,
it
was
raining
down.
G
Pollution
on
Monessen
and
Donora
and
other
neighboring
communities,
and
we
started
receiving
phone
calls
actually
from
residents
in
that
area.
So
Penn
Environment
worked
with
the
National
Environmental
Law
Center
to
investigate
this
case
and
get
all
the
facts,
and
we
ended
up
suing
ArcelorMittal
they're,
the
largest
steel
company
in
the
world,
and
we
sued
them
and
it
did
take
some
time.
But
in
December
of
2017
we
reached
a
settlement
which
we
believe
is
the
largest
citizen
suit
provision
settlement
in
Pennsylvania
history.
G
It
required
ArcelorMittal
to
pay
1.5
million
dollars
in
penalties
to
the
EPA
and
the
DEP
to
help
fund
further
inspections
and
enforcement
work.
It
also
required
the
plant
to
upgrade
its
pollution
controls.
So
it
immediately
stopped
that
pollution
or
limited
it
in
some
way,
and
then
it
also
required
ArcelorMittal
to
pay
$300,000
to
the
Community
Foundation
of
Westmoreland
so
that
they
can
fund
clean
air
projects
in
communities.
So
legal
action
is
often
an
effective
route
that
organizations
and
individuals
can
take
where
it
may
be
difficult
to
enforce.
G
The
Clean,
Air
Act
or
regulators
have
failed
in
the
case
of
us
Steele
who
you
notice.
I
also
have
listed
on
the
presentation.
We've
talked
a
little
bit
here
today
about
the
fire
that
occurred
at
the
Clayton
Koch
works
in
December
on
Christmas
Eve,
that
fire
explosion
really
knocked
out
their
pollution
controls
or
some
of
their
critical
pollution
controls,
which
has
resulted
in
raw
coke,
oven,
gas
being
flared
or
burnt
at
several
of
their
Mon
Valley
Works
facilities,
including
the
claritin
coke
works
and
the
urban
plant
in
West
Mifflin.
G
G
G
This
work
is
not
new
people
have
been
fighting
for
clean
air
for
generations,
but
we
think
the
way
that
we've
been
doing
it
the
way
that
our
coalition
and
all
the
groups
have
been
doing
it
for
the
last
several
years
has
begun
to
real
yield,
real
results
and
we're
seeing
folks
have
a
change
of
heart
about
whether
it's
worth
risking
or
health
to
have
these
facilities
operating
with
with
reckless
abandon.
Frankly,
and
so
we
see
that
not
just
the
public
but
decision-makers
are-
are
changing
their
language
about
it
too.
G
Rather
than
dismissing
concerns
about
health,
we
now
see
state
legislators
telling
CEOs
they
they
have
to
take
action.
We
see
stronger
polluter
accountability
as
the
County
Health
Department
just
mentioned.
We've
seen
some
really
strong
action
against
the
claritin.
Coke
works
in
particular
over
the
last
eight
months
or
so,
and
they've
been
fined.
I
think
it's
about
2.1
million
dollars.
Now,
since
last
July,
that's
a
huge,
huge
step
that
I,
don't
think,
has
ever
been
taken
in
Allegheny
County
in
the
past,
and
so
we
see
that
changing.
As
I
said,
we
have
to
supportive
decision
makers.
G
There
was
a
hearing
not
long
ago,
of
the
the
Democrat
State
House
and
Senate
policy
committees
in
Clairton
to
discuss
the
results
of
the
fire,
the
claritin
koch
works,
and
so
many
of
those
legislators
who
represent
tough
districts
who,
for
a
long
time,
have
hosted
these
polluters
stand
up
and
tell
us
steel
that
something
had
to
give
something
needed
to
change.
And
so
we
see
that
changing
as
well.
And
we
know
that,
as
we
all
begin
to
be.
On
the
same
page,
the
County
Health
Department
advocates
state
legislators
at
every
level
of
elected
official.
G
Is
we
all
get
on
the
same
page
and
start
aiming
towards
the
same
goal?
We're
all
in
a
better
position
to
advocate
for
better
state
and
federal
laws
together
as
a
community
and
as
a
region?
One
thing
that
we
didn't
talk
about
is
the
fact
that
the
Trump
administration
has
been
rolling
back
many
of
our
cornerstone
environmental
laws
at
the
federal
level,
from
parts
of
the
Clean
Air
Act
to
the
clean
cars
fuel
efficiency
standards
that
impact
pollution
from
cars
and
trucks.
G
Let's
see
so
one
of
the
questions
that
we
get
a
lot
and
I
think
Rachael
will
touch
on
this
as
well
is
what
consider
council
do?
Well,
certainly,
you
all
have
a
tremendous
community
platform
in
your
districts
to
speak
publicly
about
this
issue
and
advocate
for
strong
polluter
enforcement.
Again,
you
have
the
ability
to
oppose
the
rollbacks
of
these
really
critical
environmental
laws,
and
you
have
the
ability
to
go
to
your
partners
in
the
state
legislature
and
say
we
need
new
tools
to
deal
with
this
issue
here
locally.
G
We
have
a
really
critical
situation
here
in
Allegheny
County.
You
can
also
do
a
lot
to
encourage
progress
at
the
city
level
right.
How
can
you
reduce
the
pollution
burden
of
the
city,
and
some
of
that
is
already
happening
and
has
already
been
mentioned
already?
One
thing
that
the
city
is
doing
is
already
transitioning
to
zero
emission
electric
vehicles
and
that's
really
fantastic.
We
think
that
when
that
electricity
comes
from
renewable
sources,
that's
a
really
positive
and
straightforward
step.
A
city
can
take,
and
really
any
agency
or
business
can
take.
It'll.
G
Take
some
diligence
during
budget
time
to
make
sure
the
funding
is
always
there
for
the
for
those
vehicle
replacements.
So
we'd
ask
for
your
help
with
that.
We
also
think
investing
in
clean
renewable
energy
sources
in
the
region
is
really
important,
and
the
city
has
a
lot
of
purchasing
power.
You
have
a
lot
of
facilities
that
require
electricity
and
so
negotiating
a
power
purchase.
H
So
good
afternoon
everybody,
my
name,
is
Rachel
Philippine,
II
and
I'm.
The
executive
director
of
the
group
against
smog
and
pollution
or
gasp
gasp
is
actually
celebrating
our
fiftieth
anniversary
this
year
of
working
in
Pittsburgh
and
beyond,
to
improve
air
quality
in
southwestern
Pennsylvania.
So
many
of
you
are
probably
familiar
with
gas
from
our
work
over
the
years
and
we
do
this
work
through
education
and
advocacy
policy
making
and
legal
work.
H
So
we've
already
heard
from
several
speakers
about
the
advancements
that
we've
been
making
in
air
pollution
in
cleaning
up
the
air
last
several
decades.
And
it's
no
doubt
our
air
is
a
lot
cleaner
than
it
was
when
gas
started
in
1969.
But
when
you
compare
Pittsburgh
to
other
regions
across
the
nation,
we
still
rank
quite
poorly,
and
that
is
you
know
it's
not
it's
a
it's
a
black
eye
for
our
region
and
something
that's
not
going
to
encourage
industry
or
new
businesses
to
set
up
here
encourage
people
to
want
to
stay
here.
H
We
know
that
Pittsburgh
ranks
is
one
of
the
top
ten
most
polluted
cities
in
the
nation
with
respect
to
find
particulates
and
we
rank
in
the
top
two
percent
of
counties
in
the
nation
with
respect
to
cancer
risk
due
to
exposure
to
air
toxics.
When
you
look
at
our
PM
data
from
all
of
the
monitors
a
lot
of
times,
people
will
say:
well,
it's
just
that
monitor
down
in
the
mountain
valley
in
the
Liberty
monitor.
J
H
H
So
why
is
Gaston
around
50
years
later?
Why
do
we
care
about
these
issues?
Well,
first
and
foremost,
is
because
air
pollution
makes
people
sick,
its
shortens
lives
and
it
negatively
impacts
quality
of
life.
So
if
you
have
a
beautiful
evening
or
a
nice
night
where
you
want
to
keep
your
windows
open,
but
you
can't
because
of
some
stench
blowing
in
that's
a
quality
of
life
issue.
H
If
you
want
to
go
for
a
run
and
you
can't
because
you're
worried
about
what
you're
being
exposed
to-
and
you
just
can't
breathe
very
well,
if
you
can't
send
your
kids
out
to
play,
those
are
all
quality
of
life
issues.
We
also
know
that
renew
research
shows
us
that
it
affects
us
socially
through
decreased
productivity,
school
attendance
and
lifetime
earnings.
So
if
kids
are
missing
school
because
of
asthma,
then
their
parents
are
missing
work
and
this
all
means
the
family
is
just
not
doing
quite
as
well
as
they
need
to
be
doing.
H
We
also
know
the
people
and
companies
may
not
want
to
move
to
our
region
and
locate
here
with
our
poor
air
quality.
We'll
well,
companies
be
able
to
track
the
talent
they
want
to
come
to
the
Pittsburgh
region.
If
our
air
pollution
is
something
that
they
have
to
try
to
explain-
and
we
have
so
many
wonderful
universities
in
the
Pittsburgh
region,
but
our
young
people
going
to
want
to
stay
and
use
their
degrees
and
use
their
talents
here.
If
they're
thinking
about
our
air
pollution,
do
they
want
to
raise
a
family
here?
H
Do
they
want
to
buy
a
house
here?
So
those
are
all
considerations
that
you
need
to
think
about,
so
we
know
that
air
pollution
has
gotten
better,
but
in
that
thanks
in
large
part
to
the
Clean
Air
Act,
which
has
benefited
Americans
all
across
the
United
States.
We
also
know
it
remains
a
significant
public
health
threat
and
far
too
many
people
are
living
in
areas
of
the
country
where
the
air
they
breathe
is
posing
a
threat
to
their
health
and
quality
of
life.
H
We
know
that
the
EPA
says
that
over
20
million
school
days
are
lost
each
year
due
to
air
pollution,
school
and
work
days,
I
should
say
and
that
the
estimated
excess
mortality
is
a
hundred
and
twenty
five
thousand
deaths
per
year.
More
than
122
million
people
are
living
in
counties
with
one
or
more
pollutants
in
exceeding
the
National
ambient
air
quality
standards,
so
in
Allegheny
County
we're
not
meeting
the
standards
for
PM,
2.5
and
so2.
H
So
when
we
think
about
air
pollution,
naturally
everyone
thinks
about
asthma
and
respiratory
health,
and
that
of
course,
is
true,
but
air
pollution
really
affects
just
about
every
part
of
your
body,
from
asthma
to
cancers,
to
heart,
attacks
and
strokes,
diabetes
and
dementia,
and
this
is
a
slide
taken
from
the
EPA
that
shows.
Since
2016,
there
have
been
more
than
2,800
publications
on
air
pollution
and
human
health
that
are
looking
at
all
variety
of
facets
of
your
body.
So
that's
a
lot
of
publications
in
the
last
two
years
when
we
say
air
pollution.
H
What
are
we
really
talking
about?
What
we're
talking
about
a
whole
bunch
of
stuff,
but
we
are
mainly
talking
about
those
criteria,
pollutants
that
you
see
up
there,
and
so
these
are
ubiquitous
they're
coming
from
all
kinds
of
sources.
They
are
known
to
have
health
effects.
There
are
standards
set
by
the
federal
government
that
we
need
to
meet
and
we're
not
meeting
them
right
now
for
sulfur
dioxide
and
particulate
matter.
These
pollution
from
that
that
creates
these
criteria.
Pollutants
comes
from
all
kinds
of
sources
in
our
community.
H
The
largest
sources
like
the
claret
and
Coke
works
in
Agri
Thompson
facility
and
the
Cheswick
power
station
to
smaller
sources
like
restaurants,
foundries
like
the
McCauley
and
twirly
foundry
in
Lawrenceville,
of
course,
mobile
sources.
So
our
cars
and
our
trucks,
trains,
off-road
equipment
and
wood
smoke
as
well.
So
it's
coming
from
a
variety
of
sources,
so
we
need
a
variety
of
strategies
to
clean
them
up
a
variety
of
solutions,
so
there's
definitely
something
for
everybody
to
be
working
on
now.
H
Children
whose
bodies
whose
brains
and
lungs
are
still
developing
from
an
Occupational
standpoint,
those
that
work
around
equipment
and
around
these
sources
day
in
and
day
out,
athletes
that
may
be
exercising
outside
getting
a
more
concentrated
dose
while
they're
trying
to
do
actually
something
good
for
their
bodies,
pregnant
women
and
their
unborn
children.
And,
of
course,
where
you
live,
you
might
have
you
know
a
heightened
exposure
just
because
you're
in
close
proximity
to
a
source
or
sources.
So
what
can
you
do
as
City
Council
members
to
help
inform
and
protect
Pittsburghers?
H
Well,
thanks
you're
having
this
discussion
today
and
that's
a
that's
a
first
step,
but
one
is
to
really
know
about
the
sources
in
your
community
up
on
the
gas
website.
We
have
what's
called
the
Allegheny
County
air
permits,
clearinghouse,
and
you
can
look
at
every
title:
5
and
CIN
static,
minor
source
in
Allegheny,
County
and
actually
in
all
of
southwestern
Pennsylvania.
You
can
go
onto
a
Google
map.
H
You
can
see
what
is
in
a
three
mile
radius
from
you
know
your
home,
or,
what's
in
your
council
district,
you
can
click
on
any
one
of
those
sources
and
bring
up
that
sources
permit.
Then
you
can
see
exactly
what
they
do,
what
they
process,
what
they
manufacture
in
what
pollutants
they
are
permitted
to
put
out.
So
that's
very
important.
We
would
often
meet
with
people
that
aren't
even
aware
of
the
sources
in
their
own
community,
let
alone
what
they're
putting
out.
H
It's
also
so
important
to
know
when
these
permits
are
up
to
are
these
permits
up
to
date,
and
you
heard
more
about
that
from
the
Health
Department
and
when
are
the
public
comment
periods
or
hearings
happening?
These
periods
are
usually
only
thirty
days,
but
this
is
a
wonderful
time
for
people
to
go
and
speak
out
on
these
particular
sources.
You
need
not
be
an
attorney
or
an
engineer
to
speak
out
on
these
sources.
H
H
Diesel
particulate
matter
is
one
of
the
greatest
inhaled
air
tongs
air
toxic
cancer
risks
in
the
region.
It
comes
from
a
variety
of
sources
both
on
road
and
off,
and
it's
spewed
right
there
at
ground
level,
where
children
are
playing
where
people
are
waiting
for
the
bus.
It's
not
coming
out
of
a
smokestack
hundreds
of
feet
in
the
air.
So
what
are
we
doing
about
cleaning
up
this?
H
Well
in
Pittsburgh,
we
have
clean
construction
legislation
that
actually
passed
was
amended
and
passed
in
July
of
2016,
and
the
first
project
to
include
this
legislation
include
these
specifications
is
going
to
break
ground
this
spring
in
duck
hollow.
So
the
says
this
is
great
legislation
that
you
many
of
you
helped
to
pass,
and
it
means
that
any
city
funded
project
of
2.5
million
or
more
has
to
use
clean
construction
equipment.
H
That
means
the
bulldozers
and
the
back
hoes
and
the
dump
trucks
anything
going
onto
that
project
site
has
to
be
the
cleanest
equipment
possible
and
that's
great
news,
but
it's
very
small
in
scope.
This
is
only
affecting
city
funded
projects,
so
what
we
need
now
is
for
the
URA
and
the
PWSA
and
all
the
other
authorities
that
many
of
you
sit
on
their
boards
to
adopt
the
same
policies.
H
H
H
We
have
a
no
idling
law
in
Pennsylvania
that
says
that
diesel
vehicles
can't
on-road
diesel
vehicles
cannot
idle
for
more
than
five
minutes
in
an
hour
with
some
exceptions.
Unfortunately,
we
see
this
happening
all
the
time
and
unfortunately,
the
Health
Department
inspectors,
because
this
is
not
right,
a
regulation.
This
is
legislation
they
do
that,
for
whatever
reason
did
not
allow
Health
Department
inspectors
to
enforce
its.
It's
very
disappointing
that
they're
not
able
to
police
can,
though,
and
so
pan
the
Pennsylvania
DEP.
H
So
if
your
constituents
see
this
happening,
you
should
let
them
know
that
the
police
can
issue
a
ticket
open
burning
in
Allegheny.
County
is
another
issue.
We
get
a
lot
of
calls
about.
If
you
live
in
many
of
communities
of
Pittsburgh,
if
you
live
in
Lawrenceville,
for
instance,
there
is
no
way
you
have
enough
of
a
backyard
that
you
should
be
having
a
big
fire
in
your
backyard.
You
just
do
not
have
enough
property
that
you
are
not
going
to
affect
your
neighbors
there's
just
no
way
about
it.
H
It's
a
big
problem,
and
so
it's
important
that
City
Council
members
know
that
if
it's
a
nuisance
any
of
those
criteria,
the
you
know
this.
If
a
person's
burning
several
days
a
week,
if
it's
an
inversion,
if
it's
you
know
they're
putting
stuff
in
the
fire,
that's
you
know
not
just
clean
dry,
wood
but
other
stuff.
It
could
be
creating
a
big
problem,
and
so
you
should
know,
there's
more
that
can
be
done
about
that,
and
your
local
municipalities
can
be
more
stringent
than
the
Health
Department
in
this
regard.
H
H
So
a
lot
of
the
things
that
we
want
to
do
to
improve
air
quality.
Voluntary
measures
take
money.
There
is
money
available
out
there.
The
county
has
a
clean
air
fund
with
approximately
twelve
million
dollars
of
it
that
the
city
could
maybe
be
tapping
into
for
pollution
prevention
projects,
air
quality
education.
So
let's
take
advantage
of
those
funds
to
do
real,
good
air
quality
work
and
reduce
emissions.
There's
also
the
driving
Pennsylvania
forward
program,
which
is
the
Volkswagen
settlement
money.
This
is
for
grants
that
will
allow
odor
polluting
diesel
engines
to
be
cleaned
up.
H
There's
there's
only
we
could
spend
a
long
time
here
talking
about
what
more
the
city
could
do,
but
these
are
just
a
few
other
things.
What
can
the
city
do
on
predicted?
Poor
air
quality
days
are
predicted
poor
air
dispersion
days.
So
if
you
know
that
tomorrow
is
going
to
be
an
orange
day-
or
you
know
that
the
county's
meteorologist
has
said
it
looks
like
it's
going
to
be
a
poor
air
dispersion
day,
there's
going
be
inversions
tomorrow.
Are
there
steps
the
city
could
be
taking
to
promote
mission
reductions?
H
For
instance,
could
you
be
incentivizing
the
use
of
public
transport
on
these
days?
It's
just
one
idea:
could
there
be
better
coordination
between
city
planning,
Environmental,
Services,
Parks
and
Rec
transportation
and
engineering
to
always
be
thinking
about
new
development,
new
projects
with
an
eye
towards
emission
reduction?
I
know
the
city's.
Has
your
your
climate
action
plan?
There's
a
resiliency
plan.
There's
p4
there's
a
lot
of
stuff
already
happening,
but
when
you
look
at
theirs
look
at
those
plans,
there's
I
feel
like
there
could
be
more
air
quality,
specifically
in
those.
H
So
I
think
that
those
could
be
further
fleshed
out.
An
other
two,
but
opportunities
will
rise
and
I
just
think,
there's
a
lot
of
other
cities
in
the
United
States
and
Europe
that
are
doing
other
things
on
a
citywide
basis
to
encourage
cleaner
air
voluntary
measures
that
can
be
encouraged
incentives.
Things
like
that
that
we
could
be
further
exploring
as
a
city
that
could
make
our
air
that
much
better
for
everyone
to
breathe.
So
that's
all
I
have
for
today.
Thank
you.
So
much
for
your
time.
I
Five
minutes
or
two
minutes
hi,
my
name
is
Mark
Dixon
I'm,
an
environmental
filmmaker
here
in
the
region,
and
appreciate
the
opportunity
to
speak
here
today,
I'm
going
to
be
talking
primarily
about
the
encounters
that
I
have
as
a
filmmaker
I
go
and
talk
to
a
lot
of
people
about
air
quality
all
throughout
the
region.
So
I
have
lots
of
stories,
but
also
I
use
certain
tools
to
to
connect
with
people
through
the
region
and
I'll
be
sharing
some
of
those
and
the
lessons
that
they
give.
I
I
Also,
we've
we've
discussed
that
there
is
a
strong
and
large
collaborative
dozens.
If
not
hundreds
of
people
are
working
on
this
issue
throughout
the
city
and
the
county,
millions
and
millions
and
millions
of
dollars
spent
trying
to
clean
the
air
in
one
way
or
another.
Thousands
upon
thousands
of
person
hours
are
spent
from
people
spending
their
productive
time.
Trying
to
address
air
quality-
this
is
a
chart
of
dailies
smell
Pittsburgh
smell
Pittsburgh
report
counts
above
a
level
one,
so
everything
except
just
fine.
This
is
one
symptom
of
what
I
would
call
the
lawless.
I
We
have
laws
about
malodor
and
about
clean
air
on
the
books,
but
clearly
those
laws
are
not
resulting
in
actual
clean
air.
In
the
lived
experience,
this
is
a
word
cloud
of
what
people
are
submitting
to
the
smell
Pittsburgh
app,
the
Allegheny,
County,
Health
Department.
Sometimes
I
call
and
ask
questions
and
I
have
heard
from
them
just
because
you
can
smell
it,
it
doesn't
mean
it's
bad
for
you
and
I
would
offer
my
version
is
regardless
of
whether
or
not
we
can
smell
it.
I
This
is
a
word
cloud
of
the
symptoms
that
people
have
been
reporting
through
the
smell
Pittsburgh
app.
These
are
not
insignificant,
symptoms
and
I
believe
that
people
are
submitting
to
the
app
because
they
seek
agency
over
their
suffering
and
frustration.
They
seek
control
over
a
situation
that
feels
unreasonably
out
of
control.
I
They
can't
just
think
and
submit
they
have
to
take
out
their
phone
click
a
few
buttons
submit,
so
we're
back
to
the
slide
of
the
smell
Pittsburgh,
app
submissions.
This
is
from
the
beginning
of
the
smell
Pittsburgh
app
in
2016
late
2016
right
before
the
claritin
fire.
Then
you
can
see
in
the
next
slide
after
the
Clairton
fire
I
see
lawless
injustice,
compounded
by
lawless
injustice,
notice,
the
spikes
and
complaints
after
the
fire
intermittent
frustration
on
the
left
erupted
into
widespread
outrage.
I
This
is
a
monthly
total
of
smell
Pittsburgh
complaints
before
the
claritin
fire
and
after
the
Clairton
fire.
A
strong
inversion
and
alarming
news
to
stay
at
home
triggered
a
surge
of
awareness
and
heightened
feelings
of
anger
and
frustration
around
our
region's
poor
air
quality
people
were
at
furious
on
Facebook
people
were
reaching
out
to
me
personally
through
facebook
messenger
asking
where
they
could
go
what
they
could
do
to
address
this.
What
you
know
it
there
was
just
a
lot
of
rage
and
anger.
I
So
this
is
a
day
on
the
smell
Pittsburgh
app
from
February
22nd
2017.
This
is
a
kind
of
vote
and
you
can
see
on
the
chart
that
blacker
the
day
is
on
the
boxes
at
the
bottom
and
not
all.
The
visuals
are
in
the
handouts
for
paper
and
printing
sake,
but
the
vision,
but
the
presentation
then
I'll
share
with
you
on
PDF,
will
have
everything.
I
This
just
gives
you
a
sense
of
the
difference
that
I
want
to
share
between
a
20-17
bad
air
day
and
the
worst
bad
air
day
to
date,
which
happened
during
a
strong
inversion
after
the
claritin
fire,
you
can
see
more
complaints
and
more
pollution
and
more
complaints
in
more
areas.
The
fire
caused
normally
quiet
areas,
for
instance
Glassport
to
vocally,
complain.
People
who
might
ordinarily
be
afraid
to
speak
out,
gained
the
courage
to
talk
on
camera
with
me
about
their
anger
and
their
frustration.
I
Some
even
used
expletives
in
describing
the
air
others
took
their
children
out
of
town
and
or
seriously
considered
permanently
moving
away
from
pittsburgh
during
this
period
of
time,
I
just
bumped
into
someone
on
the
street
who
recognized
me
and
I
asked
him
what
he
think
of
the
air,
and
he
said
it's
effing
putrid
and
he
lives
in
Braddock
Hills.
That
was
just
just
today.
Just
ask
people
and
they
tell
me
they
are
furious.
I
I
You
can
see
massive
spike
in
in
complaints.
So
this
is
just
a
you
know,
just
a
couple
years
later,
but
under
very
different
conditions.
The
volume
is
not
representative
of
just
the
height
just
so
you
know.
I
also
want
you
to
note
in
the
lower
left
hand,
corner
the
slide.
You
see,
VOCs,
that's
taken,
that's
a
rough
approximation
of
volatile
organic
compounds
as
measured
by
a
very
inexpensive
and
relatively
unreliable,
but
interesting
citizen
science
related
monitor
called
aware,
and
you
can
see,
however,
even
with
this
very
low-cost
monitoring,
there's
a
significant
correlation.
I
That
I
believe
is
self-evident
between
VOCs,
measured
on
and
maybe
a
$200
monitor
and
smell
Pittsburgher
BER
smell
Pittsburgh
reports,
they're
highly
correlative
and
I.
Remember
I!
Don't
have
a
chart
like
this
for
the
February,
2nd
2019,
but
I
do
remember
seeing
extraordinary
levels
of
VOCs
on
my
aware,
monitor
outside
my
house.
I
This
is
one
of
the
reasons
I
believe
we're
seeing
higher
levels
of
VOCs
lately,
but
usually
these
things
happen
when
the
air
is
compressed
down
low
to
the
ground
during
a
strong
inversion
which
I
found
to
be
quite
highly
predictable,
using
just
regular
National
Weather
Service
data
or
data
coming
from
the
the
Health
Department.
These
are
the
flares
that
Irvin
works
running
at
full
bore,
they're,
extremely
bright
they're
extremely
loud
I
went
up
there
to
take
this
photo
and
make
a
video
about
it.
I
This
is
a
photo
of
a
Fleur
video
that
was
taken
by
earthworks
just
a
few
weeks
ago.
I'm
going
to
show
you
this
is
a
volatile
organic
compound,
like
a
volatile,
organic
compounds
and
hydrocarbons
filmed
with
a
$100,000
infrared
camera
designed
to
measure
such
things
or
designed
to
show
such
things
check
out
the
video
behind
you.
I
So
any
notion
that
this
flare
is
clean.
Burning
is
thrown
right
out.
The
window
by
these
images
I
don't
want
to
speak
for
earthworks,
but
the
it
was
extraordinary
for
me
to
watch
them
film
this
and
see
the
camera
operator
very
experienced.
He
was,
he
was
I'll,
say,
moved
by
the
volume
of
emissions
coming
out
of
that
coming
out
of
both
of
those
sites.
I
They
said
the
quote
is
significant
plumes
of
hydrocarbons,
of
volatile
organic
compounds
and
it's
is
not.
This
is
not
temperature,
perhaps
parts
of
that
were
temperature,
but
they
were
very
clear
to
indicate
that
this
is
a
camera
designed
to
measure
gas
emissions,
not
just
temperature
and
the
way
that
they
are
measuring
it
by
showing
that
video
around
highlight
that
this
is
a
gas
being
emitted
to
the
region.
I
I
think
it's
worth
taking
lessons
from
the
alyssa
canyon
release
of
gases
in
southern
california,
very
close
to
where
I
actually
grew
up-
and
I
don't
know
if
the
weather
conditions
are
different.
The
emissions
levels
are
different,
but
it's
an
extraordinary
scale.
The
emissions
that
we're
seeing
coming
from
that
Fleur
from
that
flare
via
the
Fleur.
So
this
is
back
to
those
days
and
people
appear
to
be
smelling.
I
What
is
coming
from
those
massive
flares
and
it's
extremely
frustrating
that
US
Steel
is
somehow
allowed
to
keep
breaking
the
law,
while
citizens
are
asked
to
stay
indoors,
I
find
it
almost
unfathomable
emotionally
to
grapple
with
that
reality.
I
wonder
why
we
can't
ask
our
companies
to
reduce
pollution
during
highly
predictive
in
versions
instead
of
asking
people
to
reduce
their
own
activity.
I
I
So
people
are
not
just
submitting
complaints,
though
they're
speaking
out
and
working
to
deploy
additional
air
monitors
beyond
what
the
health
department
is
deploying.
The
purple
air
network
that
you
see
here
is
another
indication
proxy
for
the
idea
that
something
is
wrong
and
our
voices
are
not
being
heard.
I
I
If
I
have
to
wait
till
the
inversion
breaks,
will
it
break
so
I'm
using
a
lot
of
technologies
just
to
try
to
limit
my
own
personal
exposure
and
I
know
a
lot
of
people,
especially
people
employed
in
the
tech
industry
who
are
particularly
enthralled
by
the
opportunity
to
geek
out
their
there?
The
limitations
on
their
exposure
levels.
I
I
This
this
slide
is
shows
the
sites
of
people
who
are
now
eager
to
get
a
purple
air
at
their
house,
but
I
think
we
can
go
much
further
for
a
tiny
fraction
of
the
money.
In
the
held
in
the
clean
air,
the
clean
air
fund
we
can
roll
out
a
thousand
purple
airs
they
cost
about
one
hundred.
Eighty
nine
dollars
a
piece:
people
are
clamoring
for
them.
They
can
set
them
up
themselves
at
their
house
two
hundred
dollars
times
a
thousand
two
hundred
thousand
dollars.
I
Clean
Air
Fund
has
millions
and
millions
and
billions
and
Denver
just
got
in
the
paper
recently
for
announcing
that
they
were
interested
in,
and
the
government
program
actually
to
deploy.
100%
Enver,
we
already
have
well
over
forty
going
on
50
and
60.
We
could
easily
see
a
hundred
in
the
region
well
before
Denver
does
completely
deployed
by
citizens
and
community
members,
not
by
the
government.
I
My
final
statement
is
that
all
of
these
measures
you
see
here
today
were
not
initiated
by
government.
They
were
initiated
by
citizens
and
organizations
and
foundations,
countless
people
in
groups,
because
our
air
quality
laws
are
insufficient
to
the
task
or
are
not
being
enforced
or
are
not
enforceable
recently.
That
injustice
has
been
compounded
for
months
on
end
by
us
deals:
inability
to
meet
air
quality
laws
after
the
claritin
fire
at
claritin,
coke
works,
compounded
by
their
refusal
to
shut
down
or
hot
idle
to
protect
the
community.
I
When
laws
fail,
government
fails
when
government
fails,
people
get
hurt
and
from
what
I
have
observed,
the
most
vulnerable,
the
poor,
the
young,
the
elderly
and
racial
minority
groups
suffer
them
most.
Citizens
are
angry
and
frustrated
and
clamoring
for
change.
They
just
want
to
breathe
clean
air.
They
just
want
to
open
their
window
without
encountering
stench.
They
just
want
to
play
outside.
I
asked
how
many
dozens
of
low-cost
Amana
air
monitors
must
we
deploy?
How
many
thousands
of
person
hours
must
we
spend
how
many
tens
of
thousands
of
smell,
Pittsburgh
complaints
must
be
submit?
I
B
C
J
J
J
M
J
Okay,
so
I'm
going
to
switch
a
little
bit.
One
of
the
things
that
we
heard
about
also
is
that
there
are
multiple
sources,
so
we
heard
about
these
kind
of
and
I
can
forgive
me
if
I
mix
up
my
vocabulary,
I
think
in
the
climate
action
plan,
we're
cocky
talking
about
like
source
point
and
non
source
point.
We
didn't
really
use
that
vocabulary
today,
but
so
we're
talking
about
like
these
industrial
source
point
source.
J
And
then
we
have
this
kind
of
non
point
source.
Is
that
right
with
roadways
and
restaurants
and
kind
of
more
what
citizens
are
doing?
It's
really
hard
for
me
as
a
layperson,
even
getting
a
lot
of
this
kind
of
testimony
to
keep
in
mind
kind
of
how
much
is
coming
from
which
kinds
of
sources
and
what
you
know.
I
am
mostly
concerned
about
city
constituents.
J
J
B
E
You
know
we
have
very
good
transportation
numbers
off
road
transportation
numbers
a
little
bit
that
nonpoint
your
house
gas
stations,
small
facilities
that
don't
have
permits.
So
it's
a
very
large
thing.
Agriculture
is
Nonpoint
when.
A
A
E
D
Also
depends
on
the
type
of
the
standard.
The
shorter
standards
are
more
influenced
by
local
sources.
An
annual
standard
is
going
to
receive
a
lot
of
the
pollution.
That's
coming
in.
It
averages
out
a
lot
more,
so
you
have
more
influenced
by
Ohio
and
West
Virginia
on
an
annual
standard
than
you
would
on
like
the
so2
one,
our
standard,
because
it's
a
short
term
standard,
it's
gonna
get
an
enormous.
J
I
want
to
switch
my
questioning
a
little
bit
to
the
what's
been
going
on
in
Lawrenceville,
with
makaan
weight,
orally
I.
Think
a
few
people
mentioned
that
one
today,
and
so,
if
you
just
want
to
recap
for
us,
because
I
don't
think
the
Health
Department
addressed
McComb
weight
orally
permitting.
There
was
a
period
of
time
where
the
permit
had
lapse
for
a
significant
time,
and
you
did
show
that
kind
of
like
how
behind
permitting
had
been
yeah.
C
Yeah
but
but
that
said,
I
think
one
of
the
things
that's
important
is
that
during
the
period
of
time
that
that
was
happening,
we
asked
McConnell
entirely
to
actually
not
just
do
modeling
about
their
emissions
to
actually
do
the
testing
and
that
ends
up
taking
a
lot
longer.
But
then
you
get
absolute
real
numbers
about
what
their
emissions
are,
including.
J
And
then
again,
it's
just
following
up:
it's
all
good.
Let's
get
it
into
the
record
that
the
incident
rates
of
health
risks
associated
with
those
particular
pollutants
that
are
maybe
your
criteria,
pollutants
that
as
well
concerns
over
how
those
pollutants
and
air
quality
may
be
contribute
to
cancer
rates
being
higher
among
adults
in
central
Lawrenceville,
exceeding
city
averages
by
considerable
margins.
Any
further
inquiry
well.
C
Literally
yesterday
we
met
with
dr.
Goldstein
and
Lawrenceville
United
to
talk
exactly
about
a
whole
variety
of
their
potential
sources
empty,
but
there's
also
a
chemical
plant
there
and
then
Plus.
As
you
know,
Lawrence
Butler
has
become
incredibly
congested
and
there's
a
lot
of
concern
also
about
demolition
in
the
neighborhood
and
about
the
increase
in
restaurants
in
the
neighborhood
and
the
truck
traffic
and
a
whole
variety
of
things
like
that.
C
Yeah,
so
the
good
news,
so
we're
sitting
down
with
them
right
and
talking
to
them,
giving
them
data.
Also
thinking
about
are
there
specific
things
that
they
could
be
doing
as
a
community
to
think
about
some
of
these
issues
and
I
think
I
know
no.
The
follow
up
from
yesterday's
meeting,
but
I'm,
certainly
that
there
won't
be.
J
But
then
how
do
we
create
incentives
for
population
wide
change?
Because
that's
where
we're
gonna
see
the
bulk
right,
we're
gonna
see
we
can.
We
can
start
by
leadership
controlling
what
we
control,
but
we
really
need
to
think
more
broadly
based
about
where
all
of
these
sources
are
even
that
are
being
generated
by
city
residents
such
as
vehicles.
As
you
mentioned,.
C
Sir,
you
know
we're
already.
Obviously
talking
about
the
industries,
but
I.
Think
here
are
some
of
the
things
that
the
city
could
do
is
I,
actually
think
there's
a
lot
of
work
that
could
be
done
with
traffic
patterns.
Thank
you.
My
understanding
is
that
there's
actually
technology
that
can
change
the
lights.
For
example,
when
levels
of
pollution
are
detected,
yes,
I
think
there's
some
really
interesting
things
that
could
be
done
there
I
think
there
could
be
a
whole
lot,
better
oversight
of
demolition.
Thank
you,
which.
J
C
That
one
could
do
I
think
that
the
challenges
around
copan
burning
I
mean
it
would
be
fantastic.
The
city
would
just
be
an
open
burning.
Honestly,
I,
don't
know
if
that's
something
that
you
would
all
consider
at
the
local
level,
but
I
think
that
that
would
be
something
that
would
make
a
big
difference.
So.
J
The
traffic
pattern
I
know
that
we've
worked
on
I,
remember
information
from
the
sometimes
you
know,
there's
a
mixed
opinion
about
whether
the
tea
set.
It's
not
something
name
of
it.
That's
name
of
the
Institute,
the
suretrack
technology,
which
is
down
the
link
in
my
district
from
East
Liberty.
All
the
way
down
the
length
of
bomb
and
around
Bigelow
has
been
measured
at
reducing
emissions
by
30%
and
intersections
just
because
it
reduced
idling
time
so
much.
J
Of
course,
safety
advocates
are
also
hoping
that
it's
incorporating
pedestrian
safety
at
all
those
intersections
that
we
are
still
looking
at
data
there,
but
to
keep
cars.
You
know
not
racing,
not
going
faster,
but
not
stopping
and
idling
so
long,
so
just
by
the
algorithmic
kind
of
sensors
at
each
intersection.
J
The
demolitions
we
struggle
with
I've
had
staff
work
on
that,
especially
around
the
lead
pollutants,
and
we
had
meetings
with
the
EPA
and
we
talked
extensively
about
them
asked
them.
If
we
could
have
like
you
know
our
own
PLI
inspectors
deputized
or
something
right.
The
way
you
guys
basically
are
deputized
by
the
EPA,
and
they
just
said
now,
but
it's
still
something
that
we
need
to
work
on.
We
we
it's
not
acceptable
to
have
one
inspector
for
three
states
that
the
EPA
has
to
monitor.
Let
in
demolitions
that's
just
not
good
enough.
J
A
J
L
Thank
you
for
hosting
this,
putting
this
together
to
your
staff
for
the
work
they
do
give.
L
Right,
your
bums.
To
be
honest,
you
have
some
amazing
people
and
stuff
so
I.
Just
a
couple
things
you
had
talked
about
the
demo
and
I
just
want
to
make
sure
that
this
is
close.
So
what
we
had
were
told
is
that
there
was
a
moratorium
on
demo
because
of
the
county,
the
Health
Department,
putting
a
moratorium
on
demo
while
working
with
the
city
pension
and
and
stopping
the
demos
for
some
time.
L
E
Actually,
the
city
was
abiding
by
the
rules
and
then
they
weren't,
and
so
you
were
paying
that
then
you
weren't
now
you're
paying
again
so
I'm,
not
sure
what
what
you
know.
Leadership
was
associated
with
that
and
you
know
lapse
there,
because
we,
we
did
have
a
really
good
operation
with
the
city.
You
know
when.
L
B
D
L
No
I
know
that
but
I'm
trying
to
understand
so
what
I've
saw
is
our
prices
increase
and
I?
Also
look
at
the
minutes.
I
surround
the
most
boroughs,
so
I
look
at
the
minutes
from
the
boroughs
around
me
and
see
what
they
do
and
there
they're
still
dubbing
demoing
properties,
but
at
the
same
cost
that
we
used
to
for
$1000.
So.
E
L
C
L
E
L
E
D
L
Don't
think
people
realize
that
we
bus
students
to
their
door
if
they
have
asthma
you're
eligible
for
the
bus
for
the
bus
company
coming
directly
to
your
door,
so
the
cost
of
that
is
sooner
some
way
or
another.
That
cost
affects
the
residents
of
the
city
of
Pittsburgh,
whether
you're
interested
in
asthma,
whether
they're
interested
in
whether
you
have
somebody
who's
affected
by
asthma
or
any
illnesses.
I
think
that
sooner
or
later
you
have
to
realize
the
cost
I'm
curious
with,
if
anybody's
ever
looked
at
the
cost
overall,
for
what
we
did.
L
What
we
spend
on
busing
for
students
with
asthma,
councilman
Harris,
could
pray
find
that
information
out
faster
than
any
of
us.
She
was
on
the
school
board
for
so
long,
but
I'm
curious
about
that
and
I
think
the
woodburn's
is
interesting
because
I
had
never
thought
about
that,
and,
to
be
honest,
it's
a
big
thing
in
our
area
on
our
side
of
town.
A
lot
of
people
do
is
I.
Think
they'd
run
me
out
of
town.
L
If
we
said
we
would
be
in
it,
but
I
think
knowing
that
that's
a
contributor
and
what
you're
burning
matters
and
all
this
time,
I
think
would
having
there's
some
like
the
little
bullet
points
or
something
that
we
can
share
with
our
residents
would
be
so
helpful
so
that
we
can,
you
know
better
educate.
I
was
surprised
to
hear
you
talk
about
anxiety
because
I
just
said
to
somebody
the
other
day.
Does
it
seem
to
you?
L
L
L
It's
cuz
I
mean
it's
really.
It's
really
prevalent
now,
I
mean
more
than
I've
ever
seen
a
hurt,
but
it's
just
been
it's
nerve-racking
actually
and
I
would
love
to
invite
you
Lee
out
to
our
community
to
do
or
whomever
you
send
to
do
some
work
in
our
community
to
better
educate
a
lot
of
us
just
to
get
people
interest,
I,
think
people
in
our
side
of
town
or
a
really
interest
I
was
telling
people
just
the
other
other
day
and
I
said
this.
L
One
counselor
I
said
our
side
of
town
does
a
lot
in
terms
of
environmental,
stuff
and
I
said
people
don't
really
realize
that
because
they
typically
think
of
these
types
of
things
as
an
east-end
issue.
Well,
I
am
an
East
End
girl
who
moved
to
the
West
End
30-some
years
ago,
but
I.
It's
been
an
issue
that
we've
been
really.
We
started
an
environmental
trial
comprised
of
all
recycled
material.
L
L
Think
most
people
probably
know
but
I
think
that
just
hearing
how
they
can
get
involved
or
what
they
can
do
to
change
is
what's
important,
so
I'd
love
to
have
you
come
and
if
I
wonder,
if
any
of
you
together
have
something
like
do
you
have
some
kind
of
bullet
points
of
how
people
can
help?
Do
you
have
anything
together?
I
think
they
do,
and
we.
D
L
B
M
A
F
L
E
A
F
L
M
F
M
Of
those
right
in
the
north
side
and
we're
going
to
add
some
first,
we
have
them
down
in
the
bright
nights
here,
yeah
and
the
reason
we
have
them
down
there.
Nobody,
someone
could
have
served
this
question
for
me,
I
understand
over
in
McKees
Rocks
that
they
are
taking
the
sandstone
and
and
somehow
making
it
thinner
than
a
powder
would
be
silca,
and
that
is
what
they
use
for
fracking.
This.
D
Is
a
MRI
II
is
a
company
that
transfers
fracking
sand,
takes
it
off
of
barges.
It
puts
on
trucks
and
take
us
in
to
places.
Fracking
sand
is
just
like
regular
sand
beach
sand,
except
it's
a
very
specific
size.
It
is
not
powdered,
it's
not
small,
it's
actually
a
larger
size
and
it's
a
uniform
size
because
when
they
frack,
when
they
send
those
it
through,
they
need
a
certain
size
to
hold
open
the
shale.
So
it's
it's
not
really
a
powdered,
it's
actually.
In
fact,
we.
D
E
D
What
we
were
finding
was
that
this
sand
was
larger
than
what
you
would
normally
inhale,
it's
falling
because
it
sand
falls
when
you
dig
it,
and
the
company
in
the
meantime,
has
done
a
number
of
things
to
to
minimize
they
have
washing
stations
and
covered.
You
know,
they've
done
they've
gone
well
beyond
what
needs
to
be
done.
We
we
haven't
that
we
actually
have
an
action
against
them
enforcement
action
for
a
few
of
their
violations,
but
they've
gone
a
lot
further
than
that
to
make
sure
that
it's
it's
minimized.
E
Give
me
an
idea:
we
were
talking
about
PM
2.5
2.5
is
microns.
It's
the
diameter
that
gets
in
your
lungs
epa
has
a
standard
for
that.
They
also
have
a
standard
for
PM
10,
which
can
you
can
breathe
in,
but
it
doesn't,
it
doesn't
cross
in
your
bloodstream.
What
we
measured
at
the
facility
is
over
70,
so
that
means
it
is
a
larger
particle
size
and
again
this
is
fracking
sand.
It
comes
in
in
a
very
specific
size
and
there's
anything
smaller
than
that.
It's
worthless
to
them,
which.
I
I
I
I
I
E
E
C
At
this
point,
we
don't
have
any
evidence
of
the
smaller
particles,
whether
it's
from
the
residents
or
from
the
two
different.
The
outside
guys
us
I
mean
there's
now
been
at
least
two
different
agencies,
both
us
that
an
outside
group
that
have
tested
that
sand
as
well-
and
it
has
not
shown
that
level
of
the
size
that
would
be
critical
to
consider
to
health
issue
and,
as
you
know,
I
mean
you
can
go
to
the
beach
year-round
sand
to
I
mean
so.
Sand
is
not
necessarily
considered
to
be
any
kind
of
a
harmful
issue.
Well,.
D
D
D
M
E
They
don't
mind
it
so
if
you
were
to
say
a
Pennsylvanian,
glass
and
sand,
which
is
now
us
silica,
where
they
they
take
silica
sand
and
process
it,
but
not
for
fracking
fracking
sand
is
usually
dug
up
somewhere
same
Wisconsin
or
North
Texas
us
silica.
Well,
they
they're.
They
have
a
promise
to
look
in
itÃs
because
they
are
actually
processing,
they're
grinding
it
they're
McKees
Rocks.
They
don't
grind
it.
It
just
comes
in
on
the
bars
and
they
take
it
off
again.
It's
still
that
uniform
size
so
they're,
not
they.
C
So
fracking,
the
only
jurisdiction
that
we
would
have
over
fracking
is
air
quality.
Everything
else
having
to
do
with
fracking
would
be
at
the
state
level
DEP,
so
the
drilling
the
permitting
for
fracking
that
all
happens
at
the
level
of
the
Department
of
America.
C
E
E
D
I
Curious
to
know
if
the
fracking
at
Edgar
Thompson
mill,
that's
been
proposed
and
seeking
permits
is
whether
it
will
be
required
to
have
a
Health
Department
engaged.
If,
because
the
well
is
being
drilled
on
US
Steel's
existing
facility,
where
there
already
are
permits
applied
to
that,
does
that
get
nested
underneath
those
permits.
D
E
I
I
M
M
They
are
bringing
the
double-stacked
rains
in
now,
as
you
know,
and
right
now,
they
can't
get
it
through
the
north
side.
Cuz
I
can't
get
under
the
bridge
and
then,
after
that,
they're
not
going
to
be
able
to
get
under
the
next.
A
A
M
Liquids,
gas
and
explosives,
and
they
like
the
brim
through
our
neighborhoods
and
just
through
between
the
north
side
and
shady
side,
just
like
14
90-degree
turns,
and
it
can
make
a
simple
button.
Let
alone
is
there
any
concern
from
a
county?
Since
we
are
part
of
the
county,
even
though
the
county,
the
county
charges
us
taxes,
but
it
seems
like
we
don't
get
the
same
services
there's.
D
D
M
B
E
D
B
M
D
E
D
M
M
The
city
is
concerned
about,
and
residents
are
concerned,
about
using
the
straws
and
using
the
plastic,
lids
and
I.
Remember
when
we
had
the
paper
cups
with
the
paper
lids
and
the
paper
straws
which
couldn't
happen
again
Wow.
M
A
M
M
M
M
D
Is
really
new
to
us
I,
don't
know
that
we
would
have
much
information
on
there's
I
mean
there's
hazards
with
putting
paint
down
as
well,
so
it
would
be.
It
would
have
to
be
a
relative
analysis
for
the
actual
work
or
what
they
can
do
again.
I
would
think
just
off
the
top
I,
although
it's
very
dangerous.
We
do
this
without
any
knowledge
is
it's
while
it's
still
fluid
that
it's
it's
more
of
an
issue
than
when
it
actually
dries,
but
well
you
this
is
all
new
to
us.
M
M
D
E
E
M
M
M
B
Okay,
Thank
You
Councilwoman
I,
want
to
thank
everybody,
know
it's
been
a
long
long
day.
I
think
you
know,
we
all
have
extensive
notes.
I
think
some
that
came
to
mind
is
$250
or
250
billion
dollars
worth
of
damages
is
one
that
really
stands
out
to
me,
some
permitting
issues
that
we
can.
Obviously
do.
You
know
with
regards
to
asbestos,
especially
when
private
businesses
are
doing
their
work,
regardless
of
how
we
maintain
our
properties
and
demo.
Ours,
that's
important,
but
also
when
somebody's
coming
for
a
permit
to
demo
a
house
to
build
a
new
building.
B
Are
they
doing
it
the
right
way
and
I
think
that's
an
easy
should
be
a
relatively
easy
amendment
to
our
code
when
you're
getting
a
permit
from
the
city
of
Pittsburgh,
I.
Think
Councilwoman
Harris
you're
talking
about
an
internal
policy
that
we
at
Council
definitely
need
to
check
into
because
I
heard
about
thermoplastics
as
well.
So
I
really
just
want
to
thank
everybody
for
coming.
All
of
your
organizations.
Do
a
lot
I
think
you
know
in
talking
to
our
residents
that
get
people
motivated
and
learn
about
this
I
want
to.
B
Thank
you
because
you're
on
the
front
lines,
especially
I,
know
Rachel
use
you
had
mentioned
something
about.
You
know
clean
construction,
I,
don't
know
why.
As
you
mentioned,
all
of
us
sit
on
a
board
somewhere
that
usually
has
to
deal
with
some
type
of
construction.
Why
we
can't
do
that
or
at
least
push
to
see
what
type
of
construction
they're
using
and
how
can
make
it
more
effective
and
support
our
environment.
So
I
really
want
to
thank
everybody
for
coming.
I
want
to
thank
everybody
for
being
here
in
the
audience
as
well.
I
know
it's.
B
It's
been
a
lengthy
post
agenda,
but
I
think
it's
one
that's
well
deserved,
and
it's
something
that's
important.
Then,
council
members
need
this
information,
so
if
you
can
get
it
to
us
any
way
you
can
via
email
or
print
it
out
and
we'll
get
it
well
distributed
through
the
clerk's
office.
I
also
want
to
thank
councilman
Strassburger,
who
again
co-chaired
this
and
I
know,
is
having
another
meeting
relatively
soon,
I
believe
in
May.
So
thank
you
all
for
coming.