The Pennsylvania county home to Pittsburgh has banned all industrial activity in the area’s eight other parks despite a veto from the county executive.
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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.