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Old 01-26-2021, 01:55 PM
 
Location: Washington County, PA
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Old 01-26-2021, 01:59 PM
 
Location: Downtown Cranberry Twp.
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Awesome news
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Old 01-26-2021, 06:05 PM
 
Location: In Transition
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Is it due to people working from home and less vehicles in the city?
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Old 01-26-2021, 06:10 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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Is it due to people working from home and less vehicles in the city?

The report says mostly no. It's because they are watching the giant coke oven.
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Old 01-26-2021, 06:13 PM
 
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Shut down those coal and oil fired powerplants, replace with natural gas electricity generation and presto-- air gets clean.
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Old 01-27-2021, 12:26 PM
 
Location: Pennsylvania/Maine
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Shut down those coal and oil fired powerplants, replace with natural gas electricity generation and presto-- air gets clean.
Fracking is equally as polluting as coal. Employs very little people.
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Old 01-27-2021, 03:10 PM
 
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Fracking is equally as polluting as coal. Employs very little people.
Equally as polluting as coal? Mmmmm.
What else could we be doing right now? Not 10 years down the road, now.
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Old 02-03-2021, 07:48 AM
 
Location: Downtown Cranberry Twp.
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Equally as polluting as coal? Mmmmm.
What else could we be doing right now? Not 10 years down the road, now.
Do you use natural gas, or have you switched everything over to electric? Do you have an electric or hybrid vehicle?
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Old 02-04-2021, 12:00 PM
 
Location: In the heights
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Fracking is equally as polluting as coal. Employs very little people.

In terms of particulate pollution and taking the average coal mine and plant versus the average gas extraction and plant? I highly doubt that's true.
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Old 02-04-2021, 12:05 PM
 
Location: In the heights
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Is it due to people working from home and less vehicles in the city?



There's a pdf in there somewhere, but the basics of it are that Pittsburgh was projected to hit this mark without the pandemic and that was due predominantly to enforcing compliance at U.S. Steel’s Edgar Thomson Work which had for its visible emissions and maintenance violations.


Can't hurt to further reduce vehicle emissions all in all though. PAT is getting electric buses for BRT and that's pretty good news, too!
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