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Records show more than half of 1.8M pounds of industrial air pollutants discharged in region in 2021 came from Clairton coke works

At least 1.8 million pounds of industrial air pollutants were discharged in the greater Pittsburgh area in 2021, more than half from U.S. Steel’s Clairton coke works that bakes coal into a form usable to produce steel, according to the most recent federal records. The data was self-reported by 58 industrial facilities to the U.S. […]