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Fatal explosion at U.S. Steel’s plant raises questions about its future, despite heavy investment

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The fatal explosion last week at U.S. Steel’s Pittsburgh-area coal-processing plant has revived debate ...

Clairton Coke Works, site of deadly explosions, stirs both pride and pain

Brian Doyle remembers the explosion that hurled him to the coke plant’s floor — but little else from that day. It was a ...
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‘It didn’t have to be this way.’ Advocates call for accountability at Clairton Coke Works

In the last five years, U.S. Steel has paid more than $10 million in penalties for violations of the Clean Air Act at ...
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Clairton Coke Works explosion and more | KD Week In Review

KDKA's Megan Shinn takes a look back at the news of the week, including the explosion at the U.S. Steel Clairton plant, the ...

Corporate whitewash underway: US Steel calls actions leading to deadly explosion at Clairton facility “planned maintenance”

They just would keep rigging things together, not fixing stuff. The batteries need to be taken down one at a time and ...

Air quality monitoring continues in the Mon Valley

A Mobile Air Unit provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and Carnegie Mellon University made several stops in the Mon Valley Thursday and Friday, monitoring the air ...
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Why America`s Largest Coke Plant Went HORRIBLY Wrong in Pittsburgh

A deadly explosion at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works near Pittsburgh has killed two workers and injured ten others after a ...