The Environmental Mitigation Community Fund was established last May after Shell signed a consent order and agreement with Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection to resolve months of pollution exceedances at the company’s Potter Township ethane cracker plant.
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The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection policy now recognizes 1,965 environmental justice areas in Pennsylvania. More than 200 are in rural counties.
BELLEFONTE — Pennsylvania has updated the criteria for how it defines “environmental justice areas,” communities that are more vulnerable to climate and health risks and that get special attention from