CLAIRTON, Pa. — It’s been three months since a massive explosion rocked US Steel’s Clairton Coke Works plant. The blast that happened while crews were flushing a gas valve in preparation for planned ...

For decades, noxious, cancer-causing gases poured from some of the nation’s largest industrial polluters, seeping invisibly from cracks in antiquated pipes or billowing out of smokestacks in plumes ...

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STARTS RIGHT NOW. BREEZY AND COLD FOR US, BUT WE ARE EXPECTING A SLIGHT TICK IN TEMPERATURES AS WE HEAD INTO THE WEEKEND. I’LL HAVE YOUR FORECAST COMING UP. THE COKE BATTERY THAT EXPLODED BACK IN ...

U.S. Steel plans to restart one of the batteries damaged by the deadly explosion at Clairton Coke Works. Tropical Storm Melissa update as "catastrophic" conditions to ...

A new, independent investigation into a deadly explosion at the U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works facility in August had similar findings to an earlier study done by an independent federal agency.

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Oct. 7—The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is allowing implementation of a 2024 hazardous air pollution rule that imposed new emission control and monitoring requirements on facilities like U.S.

Updated: October 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM EDT This story has been corrected to show that maintenance was being performed on a gas isolation valve. The federal board investigating the fatal August explosion ...

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UNIONTOWN, Pennsylvania — Paul is a 60-year-old, white, working-class guy eating chicken and biscuits smothered in gravy at Mark C’s diner on the edge of town. Paul isn’t very political — he doesn’t ...