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Pennsylvania Lured Shell to the State With a $1.65 Billion Tax Break. Now the Company Wants to Sell Its Plant

Looking back, “this was a terrible investment of taxpayer money,” one analyst said.

By Kiley Bense

The Shell plant in Beaver County, Pa., produces polyethylene, a type of single-use plastic, using ethane. Credit: Mark Dixon/CC BY 2.0
A possible merger of Shell and BP would be on a scale comparable with the mega-merger between Exxon and Mobil. Credit: Aleksander Kalka/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Analysts Expect More Oil and Gas Mergers. What Could That Mean for the Climate?

By Deep Vakil

In Vancouver, Washington, Everett Clayton looks at a digital thermometer on a nearby building that reads 116 degrees while walking to his apartment on June 27, 2021. Credit: Nathan Howard/Getty Images

The Estate of a Woman Who Died in the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat Dome Sues Big Oil for Wrongful Death

By Dana Drugmand

An aerial view of oil storage containers at Chevron’s Pasadena refinery in Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

How the World’s Most Powerful Corporations Have Fought Accountability for Climate Change

By Katie Surma

An aerial view of the Shell refinery in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Credit: Koen Van Weel/ANP/AFP via Getty Images

Dutch Environmental Group Launches New Climate Case Against Shell to Stop All Investment in New Oil and Gas Fields

By Dana Drugmand

Shell said April 25 that it would start using its “elevated flare this afternoon” at its Pennsylvania plastics plant and expected the work to continue through the weekend. This image was taken during that period. Credit: Hilary Starcher-O’Toole

Nighttime Flaring at Shell Plastics Plant Lit Up Beaver County ‘Like Dawn’

By Kiley Bense

A still from “Single-Use Planet” shows the plastic pollution invading the tropical waters of Bali, Indonesia.

From Louisiana to Pennsylvania, Tracing Plastics Pollution Back to Its Source

By Kiley Bense

A view of the Shell ethane cracker plant in Beaver County, Pa. Credit: Mark Dixon/CC BY 2.0

New Data Shows Giant Petrochemical Plant Has Failed to Boost Local Economy

By Jon Hurdle

Emma Ireland and Charles Philip Laurie from Just Stop Oil pose with their supporters outside of the Royal Courts of Justice in London before their hearing on Oct. 22. Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News

Shell Wins Injunctions Against UK Gas Station Protesters Amid Growing Threats to Activism

By Keerti Gopal

People and their pets rest at the Oregon Convention Center cooling station in Portland as the city is hit with extreme temperatures caused by a heat dome on June 28, 2021. Credit: Kathryn Elsesser/AFP via Getty Images

‘Not Caused by an Act of God’: In a Rare Court Action, an Oregon County Seeks to Hold Fossil Fuel Companies Accountable for Extreme Temperatures

By Victoria St. Martin

The Shell cracker plant in Beaver County, Pennsylvania will produce more than a million tons of plastic along the Ohio River. Credit: Mark Dixon/CC BY 2.0 Deed

Q&A: Is Pittsburgh Becoming ‘the Plastic City’?

By Kiley Bense

The Shell ethane cracker plant in Beaver County was fined $10 million for air quality violations in May 2023. Credit: Mark Dixon/CC BY 2.0 Deed

Behind the Scenes: How a Plastics Plant Has Plagued a Pennsylvania County

By Kiley Price

The Shell plant in Beaver County, Pennsylvania takes ethane and heats it to extremely high temperatures, “cracking” the molecular bonds holding it together to form ethylene and polyethylene pellets called nurdles. Credit: Mark Dixon/CC BY 2.0 Deed

A Plastics Plant Promised Pennsylvania Prosperity, but to Some Residents It’s Become a ‘Shockingly Bad’ Neighbor

By Kiley Bense

Jack Bonner and Dakotah Pinkus, technicians for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, transfer trout fry that will be dropped into a lake in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains during an assisted migration in 2022. The Rio Grande cutthroat trout were transferred to a watershed cooler than its’ typical range to account for climate change. Credit: Luna Anna Archey/High Country News

The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act Is Still a Bipartisan Unicorn

By Erin X. Wong, High Country News

An aerial view of Doylestown, the county seat of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Credit: Visions of America/Joseph Sohm/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

A Pennsylvania County Is Suing the Fossil Fuel Industry for Damages Linked to Climate Change

By Kiley Bense

A view of the Phillips 66 Los Angeles Refinery in Wilmington, Calif. According to the Carbon Majors database, 72 percent of global fossil fuel and cement emissions can be traced to 122 producers. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Should Big Oil Be Tried for Homicide?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

MIT students project a climate clock onto the university's Green Building, the tallest in Cambridge. Credit: Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

MIT’s Sloan School Launches Ambitious Climate Center to Aid Policymakers

By Phil McKenna

Chicago is suing big fossil fuel companies, alleging the impact of flooding and other climate-related events has caused great damage. Credit: Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times

Chicago Sues 5 Oil Companies, Accusing Them of Climate Change Destruction, Fraud

By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times

Shell chemical plant

Inside Pennsylvania’s Monitoring of the Shell Petrochemical Complex

By Quinn Glabicki, PublicSource

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