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Environmental groups press council to fund health department; controller audit cited for air-permit backlog
Summary
Speakers from PennFuture and the Pennsylvania Interfaith Impact Network urged Allegheny County Council to pass an air-permit fee increase to fully fund the county health department and reduce permit backlogs that can harm public health.
Speakers at the Allegheny County Council public-comment period urged the council to act on funding for the Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD), pointing to an audit that found unresolved air-permit applications and arguing that delayed permitting harms residents with respiratory illnesses.
Nicholas Bartel, clean air campaign manager at PennFuture, told council that when permitting systems are underfunded, ‘‘things go bad’’: "When the permits sit for months,…
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