Environmental Advocates Call for Faster EV Rollout govtech.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from govtech.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Clairton Coke Works U.S. Steel Corporation is cancelling its $1 billion upgrades to its Mon Valley Works facilities, which includes Edgar Thomson Works in Braddock, Irvin Plant in West Mifflin, and the Clairton Coke Works in Clairton. While the cancellation will likely result in some job losses in the region, it will also reduce the levels of harmful air pollution in the Mon Valley and beyond. The upgrades, which were announced May 2019, would have included a casting and rolling facility and a cogeneration plant. After several delays due to COVID in 2020 that increased the upgrade costs to a promised $1.5 billion, U.S. Steel pushed the start date of those upgrades to the fourth quarter of 2022. But today, the company announced it would be scrapping those plans entirely.
Lehigh River water tests show why we need to eliminate single-use plastics | Letter
Updated Apr 05, 2021;
For most of my life I assumed that I was blessed with access to clean water. I recently learned that for decades our water here in Pennsylvania has increasingly become contaminated with microplastics, which are tiny pieces of plastic smaller than a grain of rice.
The PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center recently published a study testing over 50 rivers, lakes and streams for microplastics. These microplastics were found in every waterway tested, even our own Lehigh River.
Our rivers and streams in Pennsylvania are contaminated because our society has embraced a disposable culture, meaning we use something once and throw it away.
Report: Susquehanna contaminated with plastic citizensvoice.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from citizensvoice.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Stockholm, Sweden, March 8, 2021 – A new study published by researchers at the PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center found microplastics in 100 percent of samples taken from 50 iconic rivers, lakes and streams in Pennsylvania. The researchers described their finding as troubling and said “it’s clear that the scope of plastic pollution in Pennsylvania extends far beyond what was previously thought”.
Dave Noble, spokesperson at Bluewater, a Swedish water company battling the need for single use plastic water bottles with innovative water tech and drinking bottle solutions, said the PennEnvironment study is the latest evidence of the pernicious plastics pollution plague sweeping the planet.