Regional Air Clean-Up Coalition Formed
Pittsburgh, Oct. 27, 2011 – Invoking the unifying spirit of an industry-government-labor-citizen coalition in the late 1940s that rid the Pittsburgh region of terrible visible air pollution, a new...
View ArticleGrants Available for Efforts to Reduce Diesel Particulate Pollution
The Allegheny County Health Department and The Heinz Endowments have jointly funded a program to help small construction companies within Allegheny County and the City of Pittsburgh procure and install...
View ArticleNew Momentum in Region’s Clean Air Campaign
The welcome news that the monitor for one of the worst air-pollution spots in southwestern Pennsylvania met the annual federal air-quality standard, the first for a critically important piece of our...
View ArticleBreathe Project: Webby Awards Finalist
We are proud to announce that the Breathe Project is one of five finalists for the 16th Annual Webby Awards in the Activism category for this website. The Webby Awards the leading international award...
View ArticleBreathe Project Leadership Group Formed
Industry, Government, Environmental Nonprofits, Public Health, Academia Among Sectors Guiding Air-Improvement Quest The coalition of 85 organizations and 1,000 individuals who have joined together to...
View ArticleSmart Traffic Signals Pilot Results: Sharp Drop in Pollution and Traffic Clogs
Air Quality Improvement Brings Economic Benefit A unique partnership has piloted a new adaptive traffic signal control technology that promises to dramatically reduce harmful vehicle emissions and...
View ArticleAllegheny County, Breathe Project Join in Second Round of Grants to Small...
Air quality improvement at center of $1.6 million fund managed by Mid-Atlantic Regional Air Management Association The Allegheny County Health Department and the Breathe Project, a wide-ranging...
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New Voices of Youth Online Grant Competition Seeks Young People’s Ideas for...
The Breathe Project has teamed with The Pittsburgh Foundation in an online youth engagement program for local middle and high school students. The program, known as New Voices of Youth, the fourth of...
View ArticleCenter Formed to Provide to Shale Gas Producers Independent Certification of...
Organization’s Participants Include Environmental Organizations, Philanthropic Foundations, and Energy Companies PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 20, 2013 – A group of leading environmental organizations,...
View ArticleRegional Summit on Air Quality and Health to Address Pollution’s Toll on the...
May 7 World Asthma Day Event Includes First-Ever Review of Scientific Literature on Health Impacts of Air Pollution in Pittsburgh, Finding Serious Implications for Area Residents PITTSBURGH – Local...
View ArticleBreathe Project Announces First Winners of Breathe Awards
Public health and local economy benefit from recipients’ work on clean-air initiatives Pittsburgh, Sept. 3, 2013 — The Breathe Project today has presented its first-ever Breathe Awards, honoring...
View ArticlePittsburgh Region has Cancer Risk Among the Highest in the Nation from...
Pittsburgh, Nov. 21, 2013 — People living in a 10-county region of southwestern Pennsylvania have a significantly higher than acceptable risk of developing cancer due to exposure to toxic air pollution...
View Article“Particle Falls” Lighting Up the Holiday Season for a Difference
The Heinz Endowments’ Breathe Project today launches artist Andrea Polli’s Particle Falls, a captivating digital-media installation that provides a real-time visualization of air quality. At a time...
View ArticleBreathe Cam is live!
For immediate release: December 3, 2014 Breathe Cam Lets Citizens Document Pittsburgh’s Visual Air Pollution and Its Sources Carnegie Mellon Technology Now Part of The Heinz Endowments’ Breathe...
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New Pollution Maps are here!
Our first set of pollution maps from Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies told a startling truth – along the rivers and major roadways of Allegheny County, black carbon...
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Pitt Public Health finds link between PM2.5 exposure and autism
A few months after showing a link between autism and exposure to air toxics like styrene and chromium, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health are finding that...
View ArticleSaturday, June 13: Your old wood stove = $$$
If you have an old wood stove or a wood-fired boiler, here’s your chance to make a little cash and potentially upgrade to something a little more air-friendly. On Saturday, June 13, from 9 a.m. to...
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PennEnvironment to sue for violations of Clean Air Act in Monessen
Hey folks – big news today out of PennEnvironment – they’ve filed their intent to sue ArcelorMittal, the global steel company, for what they describe as hundreds of violations of the Clean Air Act out...
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Shell Ethane Cracker: Is their permit valid?
News about the proposed Shell ethane cracker in Beaver County: the Clean Air Council and the Environmental Integrity Project are appealing the permit given by the Pennsylvania Department of...
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New study from Pitt finds links between air toxics and autism
Researchers at Pitt took a look at births in southwest Pennsylvania and found a link between exposure to chromium and styrene and autism. The study is here. We’re going to do our best to summarize it...
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