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The Shell plastics plant on the Ohio River in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Credit: Mark Dixon, Flickr, CC BY 2.0.

Q&A: What to Do About Pollution From a Vast New Shell Plastics Plant in Pennsylvania

Democrat Josh Shapiro delivers his victory speech on November 8, 2022, after his election as Pennsylvania governor. Credit: Mark Makela/Getty Images.

Secretive State Climate Talks Stir Discontent With Pennsylvania Governor

By Kiley Bense

Two 18-wheel tractor trailers carry fresh water to natural gas wells being fracked in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale. After injection into the wells at high pressure, wastewater returns to the surface and is either recycled and used to frack other wells, stored above ground, or injected in storage wells below ground. The wastewater typically contains numerous toxic chemicals used in the fracking process as well as natural contaminants, such as arsenic, radium and salts. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images.

A Pennsylvania Community Wins a Reprieve on Toxic Fracking Wastewater

By Jon Hurdle

A pump jack sits idle above an oil well next to private homes in Bradford, Pennsylvania Aug. 14, 2008. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Pennsylvania Expects $400 Million in Infrastructure Funds to Begin Plugging Thousands of Abandoned Oil Wells

By Stacey Burling

John Carter looks at old oil field equipment covered by vegetation near his home February 18, 2016 in Depew, Oklahoma. Thousands of abandoned oil wells were never properly mapped and many of the original drilling companies no longer exist. Credit: J Pat Carter/Getty Images)

Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Emit Carcinogens and Other Harmful Pollutants, Groundbreaking Study Shows

By Liza Gross

Nick Liadis measures the fat stores of an ovenbird at the Twin Stupas banding site in Chicora, Butler County. Credit: Quinn Glabicki

Not Winging It: Birders Hope Hard Data Will Help Save the Species They Love—and the Ecosystems Birds Depend On

By Quinn Glabicki, PublicSource

Shell's new petrochemical plant in Monaca, Pennsylvania, on the Ohio River, about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh. Credit: Emma Ricketts/Inside Climate News.

Shell Agrees to Pay $10 Million After Permit Violations at its Giant New Plastics Plant in Pennsylvania

By James Bruggers

State Rep. Chris Rabb, a Philadelphia Democrat, and Stephanie Wein, a water and conservation advocate at PennEnvironment, a Philadelphia-based advocacy group talk after a press conference at city hall. Credit: Victoria St. Martin

As EPA Proposes Tougher Rules on Emissions, Report Names Pennsylvania as One of America’s Top Polluters

By Victoria St. Martin

Two 18-wheel tractor trailers carry fresh water to natural gas wells being drilled by hydrofracking in the Marcellus Shale Sept. 10, 2012 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Ohio Environmentalists, Oil Companies Battle State Over Dumping of Fracking Wastewater

By Jon Hurdle

A plume of exhaust extends from the Mitchell Power Station, a coal-fired power plant built along the Monongahela River, 20 miles southwest of Pittsburgh, on Sept. 24, 2013 in New Eagle, Pennsylvania. Credit: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

New Study Bolsters Case for Pennsylvania to Join Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

By Jon Hurdle

Shell's new petrochemical plant in Monaca, Pennsylvania, on the Ohio River, about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh. Credit: Emma Ricketts/Inside Climate News.

Shell Sued Over Air Emissions at Pennsylvania’s New Petrochemical Plant

By Jon Hurdle

The Edgar Thomson Plant, part of U.S. Steel, is seen in Braddock, Pennsylvania. Credit: Dustin Franz for The Washington Post via Getty Images

‘Green Steel’ Would Curb Carbon Emissions, Spur Economic Revival in Southwest Pennsylvania, Study Says

By Jon Hurdle

Awash in Toxic Wastewater From Fracking for Natural Gas, Pennsylvania Faces a Disposal Reckoning

By Stacey Burling

A man walks along the Susquehanna River near the proposed Encina plastics recycling plant looking for a fishing spot in the summer of 2022. Credit: James Bruggers

Plastic Recycling Plant Could Send Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Into the Susquehanna River, Polluting a Vital Drinking Water Source

By James Bruggers

Along the Monongahela River, Braddock Avenue runs between train tracks and U.S. Steel’s Edgar Thomson Works, which occupies parts of Braddock, North Braddock, East Pittsburgh and North Versailles. Credit: Quinn Glabicki/PublicSource

In Braddock, Imagining Environmental Justice for a ‘Sacrifice Zone’

By Quinn Glabicki

A corn field wilts in a mid summer dry spell in a Point Township, Pennsylvania, field where Houston-based Encina says it will convert plastic waste to benzene, toluene and xylene. Credit: James Bruggers

Encina Chemical Recycling Plant in Pennsylvania Faces Setback: One of its Buildings Is Too Tall

By James Bruggers

A Norfolk Southern freight train. Credit: Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images

Lawmakers Urge Biden Administration to Permanently Ban Rail Shipments of Liquefied Natural Gas

By Jon Hurdle

A view of the Pennsylvania State Capitol. Credit: Paul Weaver/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

In Pennsylvania, Home to the Nation’s First Oil Well, Environmental Activists Stage a ‘People’s Filibuster’ at the Bustling State Capitol

By Kiley Bense

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