In Clairton, ‘This is what money smells like’

By JUSTIN VELLUCCI

Trib Total Media

Melanie Meade monitors plumes of pollution. Her hilltop home overlooks Clairton Coke Works, the largest coke-manufacturing facility in North America — and Allegheny County’s top source of air pollution. From that tree-dotted perch, Meade uses her iPhone almost daily to photograph emissions spewing from the 123-year-old plant’s coke ovens. Then she shares them with Allegheny County health officials, creating a kind of pollution record.

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