Pittsburgh地区钢铁厂热轧项目空气许可听证会居民质疑污染转移
美国钢铁公司在宾夕法尼亚州布拉多克埃德加·汤姆森钢厂新建热带轧钢厂的空气许可听证会于10月15日周四晚举行，居住在钢厂附近的居民在会上表达了不满。Pittsburgh公共电台WESA于10月16日报道了这场听证会。
新热轧厂将钢坯轧制成薄型扁平钢卷，取代公司位于附近西米夫林的欧文厂老化产线；目前钢坯在埃德加·汤姆森厂生产后须经铁路运往欧文厂再加热轧制，新项目省去这段运输。新东家日本制铁将为该设施投资10亿美元。
报道指出，新工艺整体上将降低美国钢铁在阿勒格尼县的污染总量，但会使埃德加·汤姆森厂自身的细颗粒物排放增加逾40%。布拉多克市议员帕特里夏·凯利在听证会上表示，公司是把污染转移到布拉多克，新增排放远超当地原有水平。布拉多克是宾夕法尼亚州污染水平最高的环境正义社区之一。
Air Permit Hearing for Steel Mill Near Pittsburgh Draws Heated Resident Opposition
Pittsburgh is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Residents living near the Edgar Thomson Plant in Braddock, in the Pittsburgh area, voiced frustration at a public hearing on Thursday night, October 15, over an air permit for a U.S. Steel project to build a hot strip mill at the plant, WESA reported on October 16.
The hot strip mill converts steel slabs into coils of thin, flat steel and would replace an aging operation at the company's Irvin Plant in nearby West Mifflin. Slabs are currently produced at Edgar Thomson and shipped by rail to Irvin for reheating and rolling; the new mill, heated with natural gas and coke oven gas, would eliminate that transport. U.S. Steel's new owner, Nippon Steel, is spending $1 billion on the facility.
While the project will lower U.S. Steel's overall pollution in Allegheny County, it would increase the Edgar Thomson Plant's own emissions of fine particles by more than 40 percent. Braddock councilwoman Patricia Kelley told the hearing the company is "moving their pollution over here," adding far more than previously existed. Braddock is an environmental justice community with some of the highest pollution levels in the state.
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