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State elected officials and environmental community make final push to Gov. Wolf to close state methane rule loophole
HARRISBURG – Today, leading state elected officials and members of the environmental community held an event in Harrisburg calling for immediate action by Governor Wolf and the Department of Environmental Protection to close a loophole for low-producing wells in the state’s draft methane rule before the final form is brought to the Environmental Quality Board later this summer. The loophole would leave over half of the state’s 1.1 million tons of annual oil and gas methane pollution unchecked.
“I chose to do this work because the idyllic country life we envisioned was turned into a nightmare
Hundreds Urge Allegheny County to Improve Proposed New Air Quality Rules
At a public hearing held by the Allegheny County Health Department last night, Mon Valley residents urged ACHD to enact new rules to stop hazardous air pollution episodes in Allegheny County. Over 300 residents from the Mon Valley and Pittsburgh have submitted public comments to ACHD supporting a strong rule to make plants in the Mon Valley, like U.S. Steel, cut their pollution when air quality rises to dangerous levels.
Environmental Groups Bring Discussion of Lead and Copper Rule Revisions to Pittsburgh
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) held a virtual community roundtable in Pittsburgh on revisions to the Lead and Copper Rule.
Cracking Down on Shell’s Cracker Plant
Thirty miles northwest of Pittsburgh in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, Royal Dutch Shell is preparing to build the largest petrochemical processing facility that our region has ever seen. Every day, Shell’s Ethane Cracker Plant will consume ethane from 88 million gallons of natural gas, much of it gained by hydraulic fracturing, and process it into ethylene, one of the major components of plastic products.
So far, the arrival of Shell and their plans to build this facility have been heralded as a savior for this low income area. The state, county, and municipal governments have rolled out the
Pennsylvania Currents | Summer 2021
In This Issue: Philadelphia Challenges State Over Law to Stop the Plastic Bag Ban | EPA Community Roundtable on Lead in Drinking Water | Cleaning up US Steel in the Mon Valley | Gerrymandering Judicial Elections | Pittsburgh Lead Safe Ordinance