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      • GASP Press Release Feb. 22, 2010: GASP, Residents Speak out Against Plan to Increase Toxic Lead Emissions at Cheswick Power Plant
      • GASP Press Release Jan. 22, 2010: Liberty-Clairton Clean Air Plan Inadequate
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      • GASP 2002 Year in Review from the Executive Director
      • GASP and EPA Take Action Against Shenango; Prospects of Coke Producer’s Merger with Antaeus Apparently Disappear
      • GASP in Lawsuit Settlement — Delivers Additional Clean Air Protections For the Pittsburgh Region
      • GASP Position on the Mon/Fayette Toll Road
      • GASP Pursues Interests In Cases Involving USX, Shenango, LTV
      • GASP Speaker Defends Recycling
      • Gypsy Moth Reflections
      • LTV Suffers Major Setback in Federal Court Action
      • May 6th Proclaimed “Stop School Bus Idling” Day
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition Introduction: Economic Savior of the Mon Valley or Billion Dollar Boondoggle?
      • Public Concern Grows as Plans Emerge for New Neville Island Coke Production
      • So What’s a Little Haze in the Air?
      • Status of the Proposed LTV/Sun Coke Plant
      • Supplemental Environmental Projects Urged in Shenango Settlement
      • The Citizens’ Plan: An Alternative to the Mon Fayette Toll Road
      • The Cost of Coal
      • The Mon/Fayette Toll Road: the Environmental View
      • The New Ozone and PM Standards: Will we breathe more easily?
      • Year in Review
      • “Drive Cleaner, Drive Greener” a Moving Event
      • 2010 Hotlines
      • Air Pollution Committee OKs Smokereaders Proposal
      • Breathing Easier in the Penn Hills School District
      • Changing our Idling Ways
      • Electricity Deregulation: What Should I Do?
      • Environmentalists Call For Improvements in Public Access to Information
      • GASP Joins in Legal Actions Against Rulings of EPA
      • GASPer Program Starts Sixth Year in Area Schools
      • Has the Sun Set on the LTV/Sun Coke Hazelwood Plant?
      • Having a Bad Air Day?
      • How Do You Like the Deciview?
      • Local Control of Air Quality Regulations Jeopardized
      • LTV Swan Song Scenario
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition: Looking at the Toll Road through Seven Lenses
      • Out of Breath: Health Effects from Ozone in Eastern United States
      • Ozone in Allegheny County
      • Patience is a Virtue… They Say
      • Pennsylvania’s Power Plants Ranked Worst in Nation
      • Perspectives: Not quite there on clean air
      • Protecting Public Health
      • Remembering Patricia Pelkofer: Tenacious Environmentalist and Founding Member of GASP
      • Shenango Violations Lead to New Penalties as GASP Urges Closer Monitoring, Cooperation
      • The Pittsburgh Supersite: Studying Air Quality in Schenley Park
      • 2003 GASPer Air Congress
      • 2009 Hotlines
      • An Appalachian Tragedy
      • Anti-Idling Ordinance Moving Forward
      • Benzene and the Case for Hazardous Ambient Air Monitoring in Allegheny County
      • Biotechnology – Discovering the Parallels
      • Book Review: Environmental Risk Communication
      • Critics of Bush EPA Policies Challenge Easing of Air Quality Rules
      • Diesel Pollution and Our Health
      • Dirty Dinosaurs: Power Plants and Pollution
      • EPA NOx Reductions
      • EPA Report Cites Diesel Fumes as Probable Cause of Cancer
      • Fall Foliage and Acid Rain in Pennsylvania: Where Have All the Colors Gone? Asks the Clean `Em Up Campaign
      • GASPER Air Congress
      • Green-e: Renewable Energy In Pennsylvania
      • Making the Connections: Dr. Judith Johnsrud Speaks at GASP’s Annual Meeting
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition: The Mon/Fayette and the Southern Beltway — Boon or Boondoggle?
      • October 7 Deadline for Mining Permit Comments
      • Permits to Pollute
      • Proposal on Odor Monitoring
      • Russian Environmentalist Released from Prison
      • The Emerging Threat to the Clean Air Act
      • Title V Training
      • What Am I Breathing Today?
      • 1997, First Session 105th Congress: Environmental Voting Scorecard
      • 2002 GASPer Air Congress
      • 2008 Hotlines
      • Another Cost of Coal
      • Better Fuel Economy Standards Needed
      • Bush Administration, Environmentalists Battle Over “New Source Review” Air Rules
      • Clean Air Under Fire
      • Clean Up at the Coke Plant
      • Dioxin: Unwanted and Unnatural
      • GASP Announces Environmental Advocacy Competition
      • Lost in the Smoke (and Mirrors)
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition: Benefits of the Mon/Fayette Toll Road to the Mon Valley and Pittsburgh Region
      • Municipalities Planning Code Amendments
      • Owning a Hybrid
      • Solar Energy Right Here in Pittsburgh
      • The Future of Transportation in our Region
      • The Viability of Hydrogen Powered Cars
      • Title V: Is that local factory belching or smelling? Now is the time to get involved!
      • Unsafe At Any Speed
      • Your Home Landscape – Armed Warfare, Part I
      • 2007 Hotlines
      • Air Quality Data from the Pittsburgh Supersite
      • Alternatives to the American “Lawn” Part IV: Just Do It!
      • Alternatives to the American “Lawn” Part II: Pesticides
      • An Update on Automobile Emissions Inspections in Pennsylvania
      • As We Usher in the 21st Century, We Should Usher Out Nuclear Power
      • Automobile Emissions Inspections in Pennsylvania
      • Biodiesel: an Alternative Fuel
      • Criminal Acts
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      • Letter to the Editor and GASP Response
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition: A Better Way Into, and Out of, Town
      • Port Authority Public Hearing on Project Changes to Martin Luther King, Jr. East Busway Extension
      • Presidency of GASP Changes Hands
      • Proposed Land Development in Pittsburgh
      • Why is the Automobile Like a Smokestack?
      • Why Should Environmentalists Be Concerned About Transportation?
      • “Avoid disclosure. Deny liability.”
      • 2006 Hotlines
      • Blue Vinyl
      • Court Orders Expanded Vehicle Emissions Testing in Pennsylvania
      • EPA Proposal for Easing Controls on Mercury Pollution Brings Protests
      • GASP Survey Results
      • Mercury on your Dinner Plate
      • Mercury Rising: How Bush’s Clear Skies Initiative Will Raise Pollution Levels
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition: Public Participation an Issue in Transportation Spending Decisions
      • Recycling and Spring Cleaning
      • Spotlight on a Board Member: Edward Gerjuoy
      • Spotlight on Health and Government
      • Valuing the Lives of Our Senior Population
      • 2005 Hotlines
      • Alternatives to the American “Lawn” Part III: Let Your Landscape Work for You (Not Vice Versa)
      • Haze Cuts Two Ways
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition: Are There Alternatives to New Toll Roads?
      • Ode to Rachel
      • Spotlight on a Board Member: Beth Toor
      • Spotlight on a Board Member: Walter Goldburg
      • Spotlight on a GASP Board Member: Kate St. John
      • Spotlight on a GASP Board Member: Marilyn Skolnick
      • State OKs Building of Power Plant Burning Coal Wastes in Indiana Co.
      • Update on the Hays Strip Mine and Racetrack
      • 2004 Hotlines
      • Chatham Students Use GASPer to Monitor for Diesel
      • Letter to the Editor
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition: Why a CANTR Member Opposes the Mon/Fayette and Southern Beltway Toll Roads
      • Spotlight on a GASP Board Member: David Fowler
      • 2003 Hotlines
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition: Traffic Congestion and Urban Development
      • Spotlight on a Board Member: Michael Kaizar
      • Thank You!
      • 2002 Hotlines
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition: Completion of the Mon/Fayette Expressway is Essential for Our Future
      • 2001 Hotlines
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition: Oakland and the Mon/Fayette Toll Road
      • 2000 Hotlines
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition: Resolution in Opposition to a Proposed Mon/Fayette Expressway Bypass Through the Township of Wilkins
      • 1999 Hotlines
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition: Planning for the Future in Hazelwood
      • 1998 Hotlines
      • Mon/Fayette Special Edition: Mayor Tom Murphy’s letter to Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
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GASP is Group Against Smog and Pollution

Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP) is a non-profit citizens' group in Southwestern Pennsylvania working for a healthy, sustainable environment. Founded in 1969, GASP has been a diligent watchdog, educator, litigator, and policy-maker on many environmental issues, with a focus on air quality in the Pittsburgh region. Learn more about GASP.

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  • Fall Event 2005: Transportation Solutions: Putting America in the Driver’s Seat
  • Fall Event 2004: “Is Hydrogen in Our Energy Future?” and GASP’s 35th Anniversary
  • Annual Meeting 2003: Becoming a Health Statistic – Clean Air Under Fire
  • Annual Meeting 2002: Drive Cleaner, Drive Greener
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  • Annual Meeting 1999: 30th Anniversary Celebration
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  • RT @PittsburghPG: Two big Pennsylvania wind farm projects canceled http://t.co/ADvYF06B #energy #gonewiththewind

  • RT @BreatheProject: Dr. Thurston: Pollution particles from fossil fuel combustion appear to be the most toxic, Pittsburgh highly affecte …

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  • Any homeowners affected? PADEP fines drinking/waste water testing & mgmt company. Co. gives up most accreditations. http://t.co/uPjJYn4B

  • RT @growpittsburgh: How cool is this?–Aerial shot of South Side Community Garden at Bandi Schaum Field http://t.co/8Q6iVhmW

  • RT @OHIOcitizenact: Couple denied mortgage because of gas drilling | Investigations – WTAE Home: http://t.co/ZLHGsYdl

  • RT @southsidepgh: Pollution aggravates asthma rates in Pittsburgh http://t.co/IQzd2GMj

  • @timothyfcook Hi Timothy–the Breathe Project is an umbrella created by Heinz Endowments that unifies/amplifies diff’t air groups’ work.

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