HEADS UP: Smell something rank? Could be H2S. Today is the 46th so far this year where concentrations exceeded the PA limit. No updates/info/acknowledgment of this issue by Allegheny County Health Department.

Make reports to Allegheny County Health Department & via SmellPGH.

Residents deserve more than silence.

'Suggesting that we should no longer worry about preventing cancer because treatments have gotten better is like saying cars have gotten much safer, so none of us should bother wearing seatbelts anymore.'- @kristinawrites
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“This sale has been pushed forward by U. S. Steel at the expense of community members + workers. There’s been a lot of pushback bc these important stakeholders are just not being heard,”Hilary Lewis.

Learn more from Kristina Marusic' piece for Environmental Health News: ehn.org/us-steel-nippo…

I wrote about how U.S. Steel's pollution and climate failures are getting lost in the national conversation about the company's pending sale to Japanese-owned Nippon Steel. ehn.org/us-steel-nippo…

Amid Controversial Sale, U.S. Steel Falls Behind In Cleaner Steelmaking
#news #environment #climatechange #energy #pollution #EnvironmentalHealth

Kristina Marusic reports for Daily Climate

dailyclimate.org/us-steel-nippo…

LISTEN: EHN Reporter Kristina Marusic joined NPR's Living On Earth podcast to discuss proposed chemical recycling plants in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.
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So-called “chemical recycling” is a deceptive industry name for plastic burning. Thanks Kristina Marusic Kristina Marusic for your continued reporting on environmental health concerns of this region.

Validating a point Ohio River Valley Institute has made in many presentations, the federal government has dropped hydrogen co-firing or blending from its recommended pathways for decarbonizing the power sector. The reason: too expensive.

Why a “fracking refugee” is attending the global plastics treaty negotiations

“I was forced to leave my home that I built with my own hands.' #PlasticsTreaty #INC4 Kristina Marusic

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I wrote about why a 'fracking refugee' from Ohio is attending the plastic treaty negotiations in Ottawa this week. ehn.org/global-plastic…

PA chemical recycling plant cancelled

Kristina Marusic @EHnewsroom
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#INC4 #plasticstreaty

Nick Cunningham Kristina Marusic Environmental Health News This chem recycling proposal like many was put forward by an undercapitalized, largely notional company that's highly susceptible to market volatility. Right now and for the foreseeable future the market for plastics and petchem is in a state of feeble demand and oversupply.

Plans to build what would have been one of the largest chemical recycling plants in the country in Pennsylvania were canceled this week. Kristina Marusic
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Today's exceedance of PA's 24-hour standard for H2S = 30 so far this year.

Meanwhile there has been ZERO outreach/education from Allegheny County Health Department about what Allegheny County is doing to stem this issue.

LISTEN: EHN reporter Kristina Marusic recently spoke with The The Allegheny Front about three communities in the Ohio River Valley that are fighting proposed chemical recycling plants.
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“Plastics industry lobbyist are promoting an old incineration method as a new way to solve the plastic pollution crisis. They are calling the process “chemical recycling” & “advanced recycling,” even though it is not “advanced” & nothing gets recycled.” momscleanairforce.org/resources/chem…

Residents fear Pennsylvania, West Virginia chemical recycling proposals will deepen fossil fuel ties and pollution problems - Environmental Health News
Kristina Marusic

'Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley are already home to a dense network of oil and gas infrastructure, including fracking and conventional wells, pipelines and a massive plastics plant. Chemical recycling facilities would represent a further expansion of this network.'