Resident Watchdogs Monitor Shell Plastic Plant Pollution

The Shell Plastic Plant in Beaver, Pa. and residents are featured in “Single-Use Plastic” on PBS all year!

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Company Rescinds Plans to Remove 1.5 Million Gallons of Water Daily from Big Sewickley Creek

Howard M. Rieger: Are Allegheny County Elected Officials Abandoning Us?

How Could Blocking Nippon Steel’s Bid to Buy U.S. Steel Impact the Region’s Air Quality?

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Breathe Cam Highlights

Metalico Scrap Metal Fire, Neville Island – April 14, 2021

Residents reported noise, fire, and an explosion coming from this scrap metal operation.

Edgar Thomson Brown Plume – June 17, 2020

Braddock residents reported seeing a reddish plume coming from the U.S. Steel Edgar Thomson Plant in their community.

Clairton Coke Works Fire – Dec 24, 2019

U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 2019, flames and an explosion was captured at the Clairton plant.

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Meet John Detwiler

Protect Our Parks

My wife and I joined the first generation of fractivists in 2010, when we presented Fracking 101 programs in libraries and fire halls. Since then, I’ve had the chance to give volunteer technical support to many of the grassroots groups that have sprung up over those years. Almost 10 years ago, Protect Our Parks was formed to stand against the leasing of Allegheny County’s public parks for fracking. In 2022, Council passed a legislative ban, overriding a the veto of a pro-fracking Executive.

John Detwiler's Communities

Uptown – Hill District

Washington County

Washington

Sewickley

Sewickley and Sewickley Valley

Penn-Trafford

North Side

Indiana Township

East End – Squirrel Hill – Pittsburgh

Aerial View of Clariton neighborhood with rows of houses next to fracking plant

Clairton

Braddock

Braddock

Beaver

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• WIN! for Elizabeth Township fracking decision,
• and our Pittsburgh Environmental Action Day

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From the millions of lives lost each year to the billions of dollar it cost us to deal with the climate-related disasters worsened by fossil fuel emissions, we are losing more than gaining from the fossil fuel industries. There are better options and more jobs investing in a just transition than continuing to harm our livelihoods. #NoMoreFossilFuels
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Fossil fuels are harming our people, economy and our planet in many different ways! 

From the millions of lives lost each year to the billions of dollar it cost us to deal with the climate-related disasters worsened by fossil fuel emissions, we are losing more than gaining from the fossil fuel industries. There are better options and more jobs investing in a just transition than continuing to harm our livelihoods. #NoMoreFossilFuelsImage attachmentImage attachment+5Image attachment