Changes at the Clairton Coke Works
Air date: Week of 08/27/2008
Story length: 5:44
Producer: Deborah Weisberg
The Clairton Coke Works is getting a $1 billion dollar upgrade to improve air quality in the region.
The Allegheny County Health Department has called US Steel the best and worst of the county's industries, the best in terms of job...the worst in air quality. US Steel has been ordered to reduce emissions at the coke works at a cost of more than a billion dollars. But will that be enough? The Allegheny Front's Deborah Weisberg has the story.