In October 1948, a thick haze rolled into Donora, Pennsylvania, a steel town in the Monongahela Valley, south of Pittsburgh. For five days, toxic fumes from a zinc smelter – a plant that turns zinc ...

The American Lung Association has released its latest "State of the Air" report and the Pittsburgh region has received a failing grade for air quality. The report, which uses air quality data from ...

In recent years, the region’s air has started to come into compliance with federal clean air standards, but still ranks among the country’s dirtiest. A new study finds air pollution in the Pittsburgh ...

The Pittsburgh region’s air is among the most polluted in the country, according to a study by the American Lung Association. The Pittsburgh-Weirton-Steubenville metro area ranked 16th worst in the ...

Air pollution in the Pittsburgh region was linked to as many as 12.5% of adult deaths in 2019, according to a study published in the journal Annals of Global Health, with the highest levels of fine ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Philip Landrigan, Boston College and Ella Whitman, University of Vermont (THE ...