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Communities First Sewickley Valley is a group that works to protect the health, safety and the environment in Sewickley, Pa. The group is currently focusing efforts on raising awareness about the proposed Shell Petrochemical Plant in Potter Township and fracking sites in the area and its impact on local air quality and public health.
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Open Letter to SWPA Elected Governmental, Business and Civic Leaders on the Future of the Mon Valley
May 26, 2021Dear Honorable Members of Southwestern Pennsylvania’s Governmental, Business and Civic Leadership Delegation:As members of the Breathe Collaborative, we wish to share what we see as a better future in the Mon Valley following U.S. Steel’s disclosure it was cancelling its promised investments there. We are calling for:A vision centering on improving the health of communities, ...
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Accountability for Our Future: The Shell Cracker Plant Will Threaten Our Health. Have Beaver County Residents been Betrayed?
March 2, 2021By Rachel Meyer for Beaver County Voices for Change and BCMACIn Beaver County, many of us are hunters, fishermen, gardeners, or farmers. We care about the land. We are also people who have suffered far too often with cancer and respiratory disease due to pollution. As we learn more about the impacts of the Shell cracker ...
Industry's Petrochemical Dream Would be a Nightmare
January 26, 2021By Terrie Baumgartner, Clean Air Council Reprinted with permission from Clean Air CouncilRoyal Dutch Shell’s 386-acre ethane cracker is set to power up this year about 25 miles outside of Pittsburgh in Beaver County. It was planned as the anchor for a vast Petrochemical Hub of four more crackers strewn across the Ohio River Valley ...
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Letter to President Donald Trump During Visit to Petrochemical Site, Beaver County, Pa.
13 Breathe Collaborative Organizations
August 13, 2019 President Donald J. Trump The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Re: Presidential Visit to Beaver County, PA Dear President Trump: As a group of residents and organizations concerned about the future of the Greater Ohio River Valley, we wish to share our concerns as you visit our home today. For years we have been battling the effects of economic disinvestment following generations of heavy industrial development that have left a lot for us to clean up. We are working hard to find our way forward. One of the lessons we have learned from...
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2021 Shale & Public Health Conference - LWV of PA
The ninth annual Shale & Public Health Conference will be held as an online conference over two days Tuesday, November 16 & Wednesday, November 17, 2021 from noon to 4pm EST Featuring new research presented by national experts on shale and public health impacts, and practical applications. Tuesday, November 16th: Session 1- New Health Research Session 2 – Research & Regulatory Policy Wednesday, November 17th: Session 3 – Emerging and Urgent Session 4 – Community Voices
Cradle to Grave: The Reverberating Health Hazards of Oil and Gas Industry
Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania (PSR PA) is excited to share a virtual, half-day conference on a very important issue. The event, Cradle to Grave: The Reverberating Health Hazards of Oil and Gas Industry, will be held on December 10, 2021 from 12:00 – 4:30 p.m. The speakers will include: Dr. Carl Werntz, Occupational Physician;Wilma Subra, Environmental Scientist; Lee McCaslin, Master Driller;Justin Nobel and Kristen Locy, Investigative Journalists; Dusty Horwitt, PSR consultant and attorney; Marsha Haley, MD, Radiation Oncology;Paul “Bobby” Manion, Wayne State University/PSR PA Research on Radioactive Emissions. The panel discussion will be moderated by Dr. Pouné Saberi. Halt the…
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DEP denies PennEnergy Resources’ request to draw millions of gallons of water per day from Big Sewickley Creek
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By Tony Larussa
