West Elizabeth News

Stacy Lee is a McKeesport Daily News staff writer and can be reached at 412-664-9161 or via e-mail. "It appears that it is a little cheaper to go with Clairton," Councilman Daryl Celestino said.

In a resignation letter council accepted Tuesday, Michael Emil Berdar claimed that being accused of stealing money from the New Eagle Community Action Group was a political vendetta.

Eastman Chemical Resins Inc., of West Elizabeth, will pay $632,000 in civil penalties and make at least $1.7 million worth of pollution control upgrades as part of a consent decree with the Environmental Protection Agency and Allegheny County Health Department, officials said Wednesday.

A West Elizabeth chemical plant has repeatedly failed since 2001 to either keep its air pollution controls within their required parameters or failed to monitor those parameters, the Environmental Protection Agency and Allegheny County Health Department claim in a federal lawsuit filed today.