Smell PGH A smartphone app to report bad smells. How to Submit a bad odor complaint to Allegheny Health Department
Clean air council Clean Air Council is a member-supported environmental organization serving the Mid-Atlantic Region. The Council is dedicated to protecting and defending everyone’s right to a healthy environment. The Council works through a broad array of related sustainability and public health initiatives, using public education, community action, government oversight, and enforcement of environmental laws.
GASP Group Against Smog and Pollution non-profit citizens’ group in Southwestern Pennsylvania working for a healthy, sustainable environment.
Breathe Project Breathe Project is a clearinghouse for information on air quality in Pittsburgh, southwestern Pennsylvania and beyond. We use the best available science and technology to better understand the quality of the air we breathe and provide opportunities for citizens to engage and take action. The Breathe Collaborative is a coalition of citizens, environmental advocates, public health professionals and academics working to improve air quality, eliminate climate pollution and make our region a healthy and prosperous place to live.
Allegheny front The Allegheny Front is an award-winning public radio program covering environmental issues in Western Pennsylvania, airing on WESA in Pittsburgh and on stations throughout the region. The Allegheny Front reporters travel throughout the region, exploring environmental issues affecting the community through stories, interviews, news, and commentaries covering a wide variety of topics. We also produce special series and podcasts, including Trump on Earth, covering the environment in the age of Trump.
No Petro PA If you’re eager to learn more about stopping the rollout of the fracking-based petrochemical industry in the tri-state area of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, you’ve come to the right place! We believe that the Shell Ethane Cracker, Falcon pipeline, and related petro industries have no business doing business at the expense of our health.
State Impact PA StateImpact Pennsylvania is a collaboration among WITF, WHYY, WESA, and The Allegheny Front. Reporters Reid Frazier and Susan Phillips cover the commonwealth’s energy economy. Read their reports on this site, and hear them on public radio stations across Pennsylvania.
PennEnvironment is your state environmental group — protecting the places we love, advancing the environmental values we share, and winning real results for our environment. What’s our key to winning? People like you. Stand up for clean air, clean water and the open spaces you care about by making a donation today.
FracTracker, the project, was originally developed to investigate health concerns and data gaps surrounding western PA fracking. FracTracker Alliance supports groups across the United States, addressing pressing extraction-related concerns with a lens toward health effects and exposure risks on communities from oil and gas development. We provide timely and provocative data, ground-breaking analyses, maps, and other visual tools to help advocates, researchers, and the concerned public better understand the harms posed by hydrocarbon extraction.
Pennsylvania Environmental Council Since 1970, PEC has been a central figure in the environmental and conservation discussion in Pennsylvania — and we will continue to play that role. Every day, PEC manages challenges facing Pennsylvania’s water, land, and air resources whether from past activities, current practices, or potential future impacts.
Coal Field Justice We fight for coalfield communities through advocacy, education, and organizing. Longwall mining and shale gas fracking are destroying ecosystems and displacing people across Southwestern Pennsylvania. We work with residents to develop community-led responses to this cycle of extreme energy extraction and exploitation.
Penn Future Pennsylvania has the third worst air quality in the United States. Forty years after passage of the Clean Air Act, problems exist because industries continue to dump toxics into the air. Government regulators refuse to make polluters clean up their acts, often granting permit extensions that allow polluters to operate in violation of the law, harming the people that breathe dirty air.