At the time, local leaders and company officials called the investment âtransformational.â
It involved a whopping $1.5 billion upgrade to the three Mon Valley Works plants, all in Pennsylvania â the Edgar Thomson Plant in Braddock, the Irvin Plant in West Mifflin and the Clairton Coke Works in Clairton â with technology and improvements that would have resulted in cleaner air for all three communities as well as good-paying jobs providing regional prosperity for decades.
On April 30, U.S. Steel said that after months of tug of war with the Allegheny County Health Department, it was canceling the $1.5 billion upgrade and idling three batteries at Clairton Coke Works by 2023.
Washington: 17,250 (+29)
To date in Pennsylvania, there have been 1,174,687 cases of covid-19, with 987,749 of them confirmed through PCR testing. Allegheny County’s total is 99,160 (75,287 confirmed), and Westmoreland County’s total is 33,347 (22,595 confirmed).
Deaths
Pennsylvania health officials reported 18 new deaths over the past two days, bringing the state’s total to 26,550 since the pandemic began in March 2020. In the first 10 days of May, the state has reported 332 deaths. In the previous 10 days, it had reported 451.
Of the state’s latest deaths, five occurred in April and 13 in May.
In Allegheny County, officials reported five new deaths, with dates of death ranging from April 30 to May 5. Two people were in their 50s, two in their 60s and one in their 80s. There have been a total of 1,905 covid-related deaths in Allegheny County since the pandemic began.
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In 2019, U.S. Steel’s announcement of a $1.2 billion investment in its Mon Valley Works brought questions and excitement the good, anticipatory kind. Yes, there would be a new endless casting and rolling facility at the Edgar Thomson Works in Braddock and a cogeneration facility at the Clairton Plant, but there were still things people wanted to know.
When would the construction start? How long would it take? Would it impact the problems Clairton had seen with air quality? How much? What about jobs?
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Allegheny County’s seven-day covid-19 case average dropped to 210 on Friday, a low that hasn’t been seen since November.
The Allegheny County Health Department reported 191 additional coronavirus cases. The last time the county’s current seven-day case average was this low was 207 on Nov. 8. The overall number of cases in the county increased to 98,723.
Westmoreland County saw 68 additional cases 58 confirmed and 10 probable with its total climbing to 33,179.
Pennsylvania’s covid case total grew to 1,169,678 with an additional 2,986 cases Friday, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health.