Health department's Dr. Karen Hacker suggested new policies to make it easier to immediately shutdown facilities whose emissions exceed air quality standards at monitors.
Hot idle is when the plant stays running but doesn’t produce any coke. They say their health should be more important than the business of the Clairton Coke Works.
Air and water permits have been issued for a second ethane cracker in the region. This one in eastern Ohio is a little more than an hour's drive from Pittsburgh.
