Shell is withholding or slow to release information to the public about flaring, orange glows in the sky and strange noises at its ethylene cracker plant in Beaver County, which started operating in November, an environmental group said this week. Noise complaints from residents — mostly about intermittent “popping sounds”
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A crowd of protesters gathered on the steps of the City-County Building in Downtown Pittsburgh to rally support for a council bill that would prohibit hydraulic fracturing on any of the county’s eight other sites. Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, however, opposes the legislation.
Op-ed writer Anais Peterson is right to raise the alarm on oil and gas companies looking to use the Ukraine-Russia war as a pretext to further tether us to the fossil fuels whose emissions are polluting our air as they harm the health of our children (“Fracked gas in Appalachia