CLAIRTON, Pa. — It was a packed room at the Clairton Municipal Building on Tuesday night.
Union workers and environmental watchdog groups were among 59 speakers expressing their concerns over a settlement agreement with US Steel.
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The agreement is not related to litigation associated with a fire at Clairton Coke Works in December that impacted pollution control equipment. The fires caused elevated levels of particulate pollution to be released into the air.
According to a spokesperson for U.S. Steel, the agreement resolves all enforcement orders and appeals related to the coke batteries at the plant.
For people living near the plant, like Melanie Mead, there are concerns that problems at the coke works will impact her family's health.
"You people aren't serving the people's public health and I don't know who is," she said.
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