Breathe Project

Breathe Project Reducing air and climate pollution for healthier communities in our region. Powered by residents, advocates, public health experts and scientists.

We use the best available science to understand the quality of the air we breathe, build public awareness and improve community health and wellness. Despite improvements over the past few decades, the air in Southwest Pennsylvania still ranks among the worst in the nation, causing serious health impacts in our communities, including higher rates of asthma, heart disease, and lung cancer. But there are solutions. If you care about the air you breathe, we invite you to join us at the Breathe Project. It is the Breathe Project's policy not to delete comments posted by the Facebook community, though we may take exceptions when those comments involve copyright infringement, personal attacks, obscenity and/or ethnic slurs. Posts from community members do not necessarily represent the views of the Breathe Project. Comments are included as a public service in the interest of informing the public.

Congratulations to all the winners, especially our local advocates Qiyam Ansari and Karen Feridun!!
10/06/2026

Congratulations to all the winners, especially our local advocates Qiyam Ansari and Karen Feridun!!

"Recent improvements have made utility-scale solar the world’s cheapest source of electricity, at $0.037 per kWh." said ...
10/06/2026

"Recent improvements have made utility-scale solar the world’s cheapest source of electricity, at $0.037 per kWh." said Don Sutton of Upper St. Clair
Read the full Pittsburgh Post Gazette story here: https://tinyurl.com/SolarLTE

Have questions about the proposed hot strip mill at Edgar Thomson? Here's your chance to ask them.The Allegheny County H...
10/06/2026

Have questions about the proposed hot strip mill at Edgar Thomson? Here's your chance to ask them.
The Allegheny County Health Department is hosting a public meeting on the air permit for Nippon / U.S. Steel's proposed hot strip mill in Braddock. You'll hear about the project and the permitting process, then get time for Q&A.
📅 Thursday, Oct 15, 5-7 pm
📍 Carnegie One Braddock Library, 419 Library St, Braddock, PA 15104

More info: https://breatheproject.org/event/public-meeting-us-steel-edgar-thomson-air-quality-permit/

Five ways to get involved this month: from rallies in Harrisburg to public meetings on the Springdale data center and th...
10/05/2026

Five ways to get involved this month: from rallies in Harrisburg to public meetings on the Springdale data center and the Edgar Thomson air permit.
Decisions about our health gets made in these rooms. More info: breatheproject.org/events

10/01/2026

Kids in Braddock shouldn't have to breathe 40% more of the tiny particles that harm their growing bodies (PM2.5). That's what a proposed hot strip mill at Nippon / U.S. Steel's Edgar Thomson Works would bring. Protect the children. Clean the air.

Ten years ago, community members and partners like us helped vision and support the launch of SmellPGH, the crowdsourced...
09/29/2026

Ten years ago, community members and partners like us helped vision and support the launch of SmellPGH, the crowdsourced smell-reporting tool developed by Carnegie Mellon University's CREATE Lab. A decade later, it's still helping Pittsburghers document the air pollution they experience every day. Join us to celebrate this milestone with CREATE Lab on September 30th, 4:00-7:00p.m. at Schenley Plaza. RSVP: https://forms.gle/deAzQce3zFtqgUiG6

Thank you PSRPA! Eureka is one of PA's many oil and gas waste treatment plants that the PADEP permits to handle ‘residua...
09/29/2026

Thank you PSRPA! Eureka is one of PA's many oil and gas waste treatment plants that the PADEP permits to handle ‘residual waste,’ containing heavy metals, salt brine, oil, undisclosed chemicals and radioactive components.

In 2023, Eureka employees told state officials that radium exposure had sickened several workers—a warning that went unheeded before the 2025 river spill

10 new natural gas plants. SWPA is looking at a potential buildout of fossil fuel power - and with it, a familiar story...
09/29/2026

10 new natural gas plants. SWPA is looking at a potential buildout of fossil fuel power - and with it, a familiar story of pollution for our region.
Full-story:

Heeding the call to put more power onto the grid, energy developers are proposing to build 10 natural gas power plants in southwestern Pennsylvania over...

09/28/2026

"Pope Francis: technology tied to business interests' proves incapable of seeing the mysterious network of relations between things...solves one problem only to create others." - Sr. Kari Pohl, Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden

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