Aug 13 Energy & Environment Trump Visits Shell Plastics Facility, Touts Petrochemical Future For Ohio Valley President Donald Trump Tuesday toured Shell Chemical’s soon-to-be completed ethane cracker complex in Monaca, Pennsylvania, to tout his administration’s commitment to expanding energy production. The facility is part of what industry boosters hope will be a new plastics and chemical manufacturing base in the upper Ohio Valley, but many residents here worry about the heat-trapping […] By Brittany Patterson Aug 13 Energy & Environment Trump Visits Shell Plastics Facility, Touts Petrochemical Future For Ohio Valley Brittany Patterson
May 15 Energy & Environment As Ohio Valley Ponders Plastics Growth, Report Warns Of Threat to Climate As a new plastics industry emerges in the Ohio Valley, a report by environmental groups warns that the expansion of plastics threatens the world’s ability to keep climate change at bay. The report released Wednesday by the Center for International Environmental Law, Environmental Integrity Project, FracTracker Alliance, and others used publicly available emissions data and […] By Brittany Patterson May 15 Energy & Environment As Ohio Valley Ponders Plastics Growth, Report Warns Of Threat to Climate Brittany Patterson
Nov 30 Energy & Environment Fracking’s Next Boom? Petrochemical Plants Fuel Debate Over Jobs, Pollution More than 100 people braved freezing temperatures to both listen and have their say in front of Ohio environmental officials at a recent hearing in Belmont County, Ohio. For the three dozen or so people who testified, the stakes were high. The hearing at Shadyside High School focused on a nearly 300-page, densely technical, draft […] By Brittany Patterson Nov 30 Energy & Environment Fracking’s Next Boom? Petrochemical Plants Fuel Debate Over Jobs, Pollution Brittany Patterson