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SHELDON: RESIDENTS IN THE MON VALLEY SAY THEY’RE STILL BREATHING A LOT OF BAD AIR FROM U.S. STEEL’S CLAIRTON WORKS. WE LOOK NO FURTHER THAN A RESIDENT IN GLASSPORT WHO TOOK US INSIDE OF HIS HOME. WHAT HE DID IS HE WIPED SUIT FROM HIS SCREEN, THAT HE SAYS IS COLLECTED ON A DAILY BASIS, FROM THE SULFUR COMING FROM THE CLAIRTON WORKS PLANT. >> THIS IS WHAT YOU’RE BREATHING. I BET IF YOU HAD THIS CHECKED OUT, OK AND THIS IS EVERY WEEK. I HAVE TO DO THIS EVERY WEEK. THIS ISN’T JUST ME. THIS IS EVERYBODY. NOW U.S. STEEL CAN MAKE THIS BETTER, IF THEY CARED, BUT THEY DON’T. SHELDON: AND OTHER MON-VALLEY RESIDENTS COMPLAINED ABOUT THE AIR QUALITY AT A HEALTH DEPARTMENT MEETING LAST NIGHT. U.S. STEEL CONTENDS THAT THEIR EQUIPMENT THAT CONTROLS SULFUR EMISSIONS WAS DAMAGED DURING A FIRE IN DECEMBER. AND THEY HOPE TO HAVE THE PROBLEM CORRECTED BY THE MIDDLE OF M

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Glassport resident Dave Meckel wiped black soot off a screen in his living room window; the collective evidence, he says, from high and dangerous sulfur emissions from Clairton Works."This isn't just me. This is everybody. Now U.S. Steel can make this better, if they cared, but they don't," Meckel said.He joined other residents who live under the cloud of polluted air from three U.S. Steel plants in the Mon Valley, which was recently ordered by the Allegheny County Health Department to take corrective measures to lower its sulfur emission levels, that are seven times the legal limit.It stems from a fire at Clairton Works in December, when equipment used to regulate sulfur emissions suffered serious damage.While repairs are underway, sulfur emissions continue to pour out without properly controlled mechanisms to prevent air pollution, and that has drawn the ire of residents and the environmental watchdog group, Breathe Project."U.S. Steel would have emitted about the equivalent of 13 years' worth of sulfur pollution, in the time period between Christmas Eve and May, when they plan to have the problem solved," says executive director Matt Mehalik.U.S. Steel appeared at the health department meeting and is appealing fines levied as a result of heavy sulfur emissions.The company still contends that the most critical parts of sulfur regulation will be corrected by mid-May.