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Accountability for Our Future: The Shell Cracker Plant Will Threaten Our Health. Have Beaver County Residents been Betrayed?

By Rachel Meyer, BCMAC, Voices for Change

By Rachel Meyer for Beaver County Voices for Change and BCMAC In Beaver County, many of us are hunters, fishermen, gardeners, or farmers. We care…

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Industry’s Petrochemical Dream Would be a Nightmare

Terrie Baumgartner works with Clean Air Council and is a member of Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community (BCMAC). She lives in Aliquippa.

By Terrie Baumgartner, Clean Air Council Reprinted with permission from Clean Air Council Royal Dutch Shell’s 386-acre ethane cracker is set to power up this…

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Beaver County Student Calls on Leaders to Stop Global Warming

Natlie Leslie is a senior at Black Hawk High School in Beaver County.

By Natalie Leslie My name is Natalie Leslie and I’m Southwest Pennsylvania National Organization of Women’s youth feminist chair and a senior at Blackhawk High…

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Sara Innamorato: Socialized Risk, Privatized Profits

By Rep. Sara Innamorato

By Rep. Sara Innamorato I want my lights to turn on when I flip the switch. I want family-sustaining, union jobs across Pennsylvania. I want…

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Recent Bad Air Quality & How U.S. Steel Can Be a Better Neighbor

By GASP Pittsburgh

Republished with permission from GASP By GASP It was a white Christmas for the Pittsburgh region this year – but it was fog, not snow…

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Children’s Environmental Health Day – We Must Put Children First

Dr. Ned Keyter is one of the founding physicians of Pediatric Alliance and served as its president from 1997-2004. He has been practicing general pediatrics at Pediatric Alliance since 1990. He also serves on the board of the Environmental Health Project.

(The following was reprinted with permission by Dr. Ketyer of Pediatric Alliance) By Dr. Ned Ketyer Despite the many successes and advancements in the field…

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