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  • The Shell Ethane Cracker Is NOT A Done Deal
  • Pollution Victimizes Children
  • Shell Appalachia: What A Complete Lack of Transparency Looks Like
  • Our Leaders Must Live Up to Their Responsibility To Protect What Citizens Have Entrusted Into Their Care. We Must Step Up to Defend Our Rights Before They Are Taken Away.
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  • Your Health vs. Cracker Plant Jobs
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Slides

• pipeline risk
• patrolling our air
• fracking and health
• asthma in children
• the air we share

Reports and Studies

• FracTracker: Pa. Fracking Complaints Are Increasing, Systemic
• A Hazy Future: Pennsylvania’s Energy Landscape in 2045
• Fumes Across the Fence-Line: The Health Impacts of Air Pollution from Oil & Gas Facilities on African American Communities
• Reduction in fine particulate air pollution and mortality: Extended follow-up of the Harvard Six Cities study.
• Summary on Compressor Stations and Health Impacts
• Geographic and social disparities in exposure to air neurotoxicants at U.S. public schools
• Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Researchers Find Wind and Solar Power Have Greatest Health and Climate Benefits in Eastern States
• Fracking in shale plays could trigger earthquakes in deeper faults: study
• American Thoracic Society and Marron Institute Report. Estimated Excess Morbidity and Mortality Caused by Air Pollution above American Thoracic Society–Recommended Standards
• Air Pollution and Mortality in the Medicare Population
• In-Womb Air Pollution Exposure Associated with Higher Blood Pressure in Childhood
• Levelized Cost of Energy 2017
• Blacks Have More Exposure to Air Pollutants Raising Heart Disease Risk, Death
• Air Pollution Linked to Brain Alterations and Cognitive Impairment in Children
• Saving Energy, Saving Lives: The Health Impact of Avoiding Power Plant Pollution with Energy Efficiency
• Air Quality Impacts and Benefits Under U.S. Policy for Air Pollution, Climate
• The Case for Healthier Homes: Recommendations for the Pittsburgh Region
• Solar Market Insight Report 2017 Q4
• Explaining Extreme Events from a Climate Perspective
• Don't Believe the Killer Jobs Hype – EIP Clean Jobs Report
• The climate and air-quality benefits of wind and solar power in the United States
• Health Impact Assessment of the Shell Chemical Appalachia Petrochemical Complex
• Expensive Neighbors: The Hidden Cost of Harmful Pollution to Downwind Employers and Businesses
• Toxic Air: The Case for Cleaning Up Coal-Fired Power Plants
• America's Top Power Plant Toxic Producers
• Fracking Fumes: Air Pollution from Hydraulic Fracturing Threatens Public Health and Communities
• Hydraulic Fracking and Infant Health: New evidence from Pennsylvania
• Pittsburgh Regional Environmental Threats Analysis (PRETA): Ozone
• Impact of London's road traffic air and noise pollution on birth weight: retrospective population based cohort study
• The Climate and Air Quality Benefits of wind and solar power in the United States
• Pittsburgh Regional Environmental Threats Analysis (PRETA): Hazardous Air Pollutants
• U.S. Northeast Petrochemical Industry Market Outlook 2018
• Clean Jobs Pennsylvania 2017
• PM2.5 map and exposure data
• Air Pollution Cancels Out the Health Benefits of a Stroll in the City
• Improving Air Quality with Solar Energy
• Environmental Risk
• Poor sperm quality linked to air pollution
• Fumes Across the Fence-Line: The Health Impacts of Air Pollution from Oil and Gas Facilities on African American Communities
• Smog May Harm Your Bones, Too
• Air Quality and Health in US Will Improve from other Nations' Actions to Slow Climate Change
• Allegheny County Department of Health - Air Quality
• Fossil Fuel Development & Your Health
• Understanding in Order to Prepare: Ethane Cracker Risk and Disclosure
• Two Years After ‘Aiming for A’: Where Are We Now?
• Asthma in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County - Information and Future Direction
• Particle Pollution and Your Patients' Health
• Study finds pollution is deadlier than war, disaster, hunger
• Fracking chemicals and kids' brains don’t mix.
• Neurodevelopmental and neurological effects of chemicals associated with unconventional oil and natural gas operations and their potential effects on infants and children
• The Lancet Commission on pollution and health
• Allegheny County Air Quality Indexes
• Allegheny County Air Pollution Monitoring
• Air Pollution and Alzheimer's
• FracTracker Alliance
• Oil and Gas in Pennsylvania
• Gasping for Breath
• Oil and Gas Threat map
• Reports from Environmental Health Project
• Human exposure to unconventional natural gas development: A public health demonstration of periodic high exposure to chemical mixtures in ambient air
• The 100 Most Polluting Biomass Energy Facilities in Pa
• Air Pollution from Biomass Energy
• Modeling to Evaluate Contribution of Oil and Gas Emissions to Air Pollution
• Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made
• Saturation sampling for spatial variation in multiple air pollutants across an inversion-prone metropolitan area of complex terrain
• PM2.5 map and exposure data
• Toxic exposures may cost the world 10% of GDP: Study
• Calculation of the Disease Burden Associated with Environmental Chemical Exposures
• The Air We Breathe: A Regional Summit on Asthma & Other Health Impacts of Air Pollution
• Let's Clean Our Air, Together: A Breathe Project Presentation
• Air Time
• Pittsburgh Climate Action Plan Version 2.0
• EXHAUST-ed! Community Exposure to Diesel Air Pollution in California's Transportation Corridor
• Links Between Air Quality and Economic Growth: Implications for Pittsburgh
• The Toll from Coal: An Updated Assessment of Death and Disease from America's Dirtiest Energy Source2010
• Summertime Haze Air Pollution and Children with Asthma
• Personal Exposures to Traffic-Related Particle Pollution Among Children with Asthma in the South Bronx, NY
• Estimates and 25-year trends of the global burden of disease attributable to ambient air pollution
• Impact of Changes in Transportation & Commuting Behaviors During the 1996 Summer Olympic[s]...on Air Quality & Childhood Asthma
• Health Impacts of Diesel, Based on Data from the National Scale Air Toxics Assessment 2009
• Air Pollution as an Underappreciated Cause of Asthma Symptoms
• Air Pollution and Human Health
• Toxic Power: How Power Plants Contaminate Our Air and States
• Port Authority of Allegheny County Bus Fleet Emissions: 2005-2019
• Mapping Mortality: A special report on the air we breathe
• Livable Air?
• A Citizen's Guide to Commenting on Air Permits for Natural Gas Facilities
• Trees, Trash and Toxics: How Biomass Energy Has Become the New Coal
• The Health Impacts of Pittsburgh Air Quality: A Review of the Scientific Literature, 1970-2012
• Fine Particulate Matter and Ozone Air Quality in Western Pennsylvania in the 2000s
• Understanding Western Pennsylvania's Air Pollution Problem
• Biomass Energy in Pennsylvania: Implications for Air Quality, Carbon Emissions and Forests
• Air Toxics in Allegheny County: Sources, Airborne Concentrations and Human Exposure
• Using Low-Cost Technology to Democratize Data and Protect Public Health: Case Studies in Pittsburgh
• Shale Gas Extraction and Public Health, A Resource Guide
• Canadian Induced Seismicity Collaboration: Hazards from Induced Seismicity
• Perinatal Outcomes and Unconventional Natural Gas Operations in Southwest Pennsylvania
• Association Between Unconventional Natural Gas Development in the Marcellus Shale and Asthma Exacerbations
• Unconventional Gas and Oil Drilling Is Associated with Increased Hospital Utilization Rates
• Health Risks in Pennsylvania from Oil and Gas Pollution
• The Carbon Majors Database: CDP Carbon Majors Report
• Strategies to prevent damage to critical infrastructure due to induced seismicity
• Plastic Debris Is a Human Health Issue
• Compendium of Scientific, Medical and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking
• Breakdowns in Enforcement: Texas Rarely Penalizes Industry for Illegal Air Pollution Released During Malfunctions and Maintenance
• Pittsburgh Regional Environmental Threats Analysis (PRETA) Report: Particulate Matter
• Impact of Local Air Pollution on Asthma Outcomes
• Explore Saturation Sampling for Spatial Variation in Multiple Air Pollutants Across an Inversion-Prone Metropolitan Area of Complex Terrain
• Reduction in Fine Particulate Air Pollution and Mortality: Extended Follow-up of the Harvard Six Cities Study 2016
• Particulate air pollutants, APOE alleles and their contributions to cognitive impairment in older women and to amyloidogenesis in experimental models
• American Lung Association, State of the Air 2017
• Air Modeling as a Tool in Environmental Law and Policy: A Guide for Communities and Environmental Groups
• Is It Who You Are or Where You Live? Residential Segregation and Racial Gaps in Childhood Asthma
• Air Pollution and Mortality in the Medicare Population
• Association Between Traffic-Related Air Pollution in Schools and Cognitive Development in Primary School Children
• Air Pollution and Cancer
• Millions may face protein deficiency as a result of human-caused carbon dioxide emissions

News

• Shell investors revolt over pay and maintain pressure over climate change
• Premature Birth Rates Drop in California After Coal and Oil Plants Shut Down
• Shell hiring 40 production operators for cracker plant
• Johnstown's Comeback Could Get An Energy Boost From The Sun
• Planet or Plastic? Danes Use Far Fewer Plastic Bags Than Americans—Here's How
• Widely used PVC plastic chemical spurs obesity, prediabetes: Study
• How People Make Only a Jar of Trash a Year
• Air Milestone Reached
• This Federal Policy Enabled the Fracking Industry’s $280 Billion Loss
• Planet or Plastic: Fast Facts About Plastic Pollution
• From Pittsburgh to Flint, the Dire Consequences of Giving Private Companies (like Veolia) Responsibility for Ailing Water Systems
• Breathing Inequality: Air Pollution Widens Gap Between Two Pittsburghs
• Exposure to Air Pollution in Womb Tied to Hypertension in Children
• The Epic "Planet or Plastic" Nat Geo Cover Is Just The Beginning
• Environmental group: Wolf is ignoring Supreme Court decision, misusing money from gas drilling
• Church with $2K in gas driller’s stock wins methane vote
• Board rules state met environmental requirements in allowing Mars drilling wells
• Sulfur Dioxide Damages Lungs, And Scott Pruitt Is Letting Out More Of It In Our Air
• Potter's Cracker Plant at the Center of Shell's Return to Plastics
• We Know Plastic is Harming Marine Life. What About Us?
• We Made Plastic. We Depend On It. Now We Are Drowning In It.
• Even The Bottom Of The World’s Deepest Ocean Trench Is Not Safe From Plastic Bags
• What Scott Pruitt has been doing while you weren't looking
• Appalachian boom: Potholes, landslides and shattered peace
• In-womb air pollution exposure associated with higher blood pressure in childhood
• Your Bottled Water May Contain Hundreds of Little Pieces of Plastic
• Penn Township leaders, environmental group find rare consensus on injection wells
• Hearing Will Focus On Shell Pipeline
• PTT Ensuring Possible Belmont Cracker Will Be On Firm Footing
• A Livable City Must Have Breathable Air
• Parents Concerned About Fracking New Fox Chapel Schools
• Pittsburgh to Trump: Elected officials sign full-page ad in Post-Gazette
• Trump Administration Axes Funding For NASA System That Monitors Greenhouse Gases
• Pennsylvania Lawmaker Advancing Pro-Fracking Legislation Profits from Leasing his Land to Drillers
• As Rest of World Moves Towards Renewables, US Keeps Offering Exclusive Tax Breaks for Fossil Fuels
• Thirdhand smoke is widespread and may be dangerous, mounting evidence shows
• New study reaches a stunning conclusion about the cost of solar and wind energy
• Pruitt to hear economic arguments in enforcing Clean Air Act
• Environmental group to hold meeting on Shenango Coke Works' health impact
• How Wall Street Enabled the Fracking 'Revolution' That's Losing Billions
• Jobs in renewable energy hit 10.3 million last year, report finds
• Sierra Club says it will sue a coal-fired power plant near Pittsburgh for excessive air pollution
• High-level Shell executives to speak at Pittsburgh petrochemical conference
• Gearing up for frack fight, Ohio residents turn to Pa. experts
• Go outside and take a drag of the region's 'fresh' air
• Parents upset with drilling sites in Fox Chapel School District
• Fracking riles residents in Pittsburgh's northeastern suburbs
• Shenango smokestacks, a prime polluter in Western Pennsylvania, imploded
• Shenango Stacks Come Tumbling Down
• Shenango Coke Works smokestacks coming down
• Implosion of Neville Island Coke Plant Set for Tuesday
• Implosion brings down smokestacks at former Shenango Coke Works
• ER visits for asthma dropped 38% the year after one of Pittsburgh's biggest polluters shut down
• Raw Video: Smokestack at Former Shenango Coke Works Imploded
• This Pittsburgh program is tackling climate change, inequality and your neighbor’s energy bill one light bulb at a time
• US gains in air quality are slowing down
• Natural-gas proponents and renewable-energy advocates disagree on fracking’s potential to grow jobs in Pittsburgh
• California Border Community Discovers 10x More Air Pollution Events than Detected by Government
• Wimbledon Bans Plastic Straws
• Residents of Potter Township reflect on living with Shell cracker plant
• To Shell and back: Potter Township Supervisors reflect on journey of last six years
• State Rep. Ed Gainey and advocates call for fleet of electric buses in Pittsburgh area
• State officials need to protect Pa. from Trump's EPA - OpEd
• More Money for Allegheny County's "Clean Air Fund" Goes Into Office Renovation
• Race, gender, location disparities found in county study of death rates
• As transit agencies inch toward electric buses, environmental groups want more progress
• Allegheny County seeks public input on new air-monitoring plan
• California, 17 other states sue Trump administration to defend Obama-era climate rules for vehicles
• Pa. House advances bill to ease rules for conventional oil and gas drillers
• Work Begins on a New Sewickley Compressor Station
• Social investment fund calls for $3 billion in making Pittsburgh a city for all
• Fracking chemicals “imbalance” the immune system
• A fight for power in rural Virginia
• Unfair Comparison - LTE
• The EPA is Acting Like Big Tobacco
• Study: Just breathing in Downtown Pittsburgh can be like smoking most of a cigarette
• Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry
• Freeport delays vote to allow five new XTO gas wells
• How Much Are You Smoking By Breathing Urban Air?
• The Coal Industry Extracted a Steep Price From West Virginia. Now Natural Gas Is Leading the Gas Industry Down the Same Path
• Pittsburgh's Stunted Progress: Steel City has tried to transform to a global innovation hub, but air quality could hold it back
• Shell Profit Soars on Higher Oil Prices, Cash Flow Disappoints
• The Surprising Tourist Destinations Reviving Coal Country
• The military paid for a study on sea level rise. The results were scary.
• In Pittsburgh, 'what we look for and aspire to be'
• A Constitutional Weapon– Environmental Rights ReImagined In Pennsylvania
• Pittsburgh's cleaner, pricier summer gas blend is on its way out
• Shale Pipeline Operator To Pay Fine In Air Pollution Case
• Still no deal for Dilles Bottom landowners
• Following spills, DEP stops Mariner East 2 work at Delaware County site
• MarkWest agrees to more than $600K fine in settlement with government agencies
• MarkWest settles federal air pollution claim, promises to invest millions
• World May Hit 2 Degrees of Warming in 10-15 Years Thanks to Fracking, Says Cornell Scientist
• Pollution Pods Offer Glimpse of Global Air Quality
• Worried about dust and air pollution? A Kennewick teen created this (app) to help
• Perched on a platform high in a tree, a 61-year-old woman fights a gas pipeline
• Nuclear Retirements Would Erase Years of Clean Energy Progress
• The Risk of Fracking is Hitting Close to Home
• Sunoco says testing is done and Mariner East 1 is safe; state officials say slow down
• Make Pittsburgh's Airport Even Smarter
• U.S. Cities With the Worst Air Pollution
• Latest Lung Association Report Gives Allegheny County An ‘F’ Across The Board For Air Pollution
• Something in the air: Don’t let regional progress be stalled by pollution
• Could Pittsburgh's Dirty Air Hurt Amazon HQ2 Bid?
• Report: Beaver County’s Air Still Among Worst in the Nation
• Pittsburgh scores all F’s on the American Lung Association’s air quality report card
• Pittsburgh region's air pollution worsening, report says
• American Lung Association: Air quality in Pittsburgh region among worst in nation
• Will Pittsburgh flourish as a hub of eds and meds or gas and petrochemicals? Can we have it both ways?
• Commerce Secretary 'Hopeful' First China Energy Project is Near
• More than 95% of world's population breathing unhealthy air, says new report
• Pittsburgh's Air Quality Among Worst in Nation, Study Says
• LTE: Alternative Route Needed for Falcon Pipeline
• Directly in the Mountain Valley Pipeline path: Tree sitters halt tree felling in proposed MVP route on Peters Mountain
• Keep the Fuel Rules on Vehicles
• Turning the Lights Back On (as coal-fired plants switch off)
• Anti-fracking activists (in Harrisburg) calling for banning natural gas drilling
• Lifelong exposure to air pollution linked to higher risk of Alzheimer’s
• Lung Cancer Patients Live Longer With Immune Therapy
• Sparking Petrochemical Valley? Plans for cracker plants and a gas liquids storage hub could lead to a toxic plastics industry in Appalachia
• Bill Would Weaken Standards on Conventional Oil and Gas Drillers
• Predawn timbering raid ends tree-sitters' pipeline protest
• For Advanced Lung Cancer, Immune Therapy Plus Chemo Prolongs Survival
• Protests Against Pipelines in Canada Hurting Industry
• Energy investors to Pittsburgh: If you want to save the environment—think about how to make money
• Popsicles of Pollution: Ice Lollies Highlight Taiwan's Tainted Waterways
• Sustainable Pittsburgh Sets Sight on Clean Energy Future With New Initiative
• White House Abruptly Orders EPA To Loosen Clean Air Rules In Polluter Giveaway
• EPA Threatens PA With Sanctions For Failing To Submit A Plan On Time To Reduce Particulate Pollution In Allegheny, Delaware, Lebanon Counties
• EPA’s unwillingness to act on pollution is especially harmful to communities of color
• The Ocean's Circulation Hasn't Been This Sluggish in 1000 Years
• Thrasher hopes looming trade war won't kill China's West Virginia investment deal
• GASP Podcast: Welcome to the Ozone Season
• Wastewater treatment proposal along Allegheny River appears to be dead
• The Shale Dilemma Goes Global
• Shell Nigeria says oil output up 10% year-on-year in 2017
• Natural Gas Has A Dirty Secret and journalists are helping to keep it under wraps
• Penn Township fracking dispute heads to court, with state’s Environmental Rights Amendment at center of lawsuit
• A 'monstrosity' or a step forward? Puyallup Tribe and PSE in a showdown over Tacoma natural-gas plant
• ‘Kinder Morgan blinked’: Cross-Canada pipeline on hold because of opposition
• EPA Threatens Pennsylvania With Sanctions for Failing to Reduce Soot Pollution in Allegheny County
• DEP Falcon Pipeline Hearings: Ambridge Water Authority Opposition
• WPXI-TV: Protest Against Fracking in Penn Township
• Plastics Company Moving Into Vacant Building in Chippewa
• Air Pollution Might Be the New Lead
• Shell Foresaw Climate Dangers in 1988 and Understood Big Oil’s Big Role
• Nearly 100 people attend public hearing regarding Shell’s Falcon ethane pipeline
• McDonald's Unveils Plan to Ban Plastic Straws
• After Setback on Reversal Plan, Laurel Pipeline Company Plans Two-Way Gas Flows
• Residents Block Seismic Testing on One Block in Monroeville
• Poll: Public concern grows over natural gas industry’s environmental impact
• Most residents at Monaca hearing question Shell's planned pipeline
• Shell Threatened With Legal Action Over Climate Change Contributions
• Mobilizing 1,000 to Fight for Clean Air
• Filmmakers and Activists Not Backing Down From Fracking Industry's Threats
• U.S. Steel to pay $1.2 million for carcinogen spill
• Dr. King Said Segregation Harms Us All. Environmental Research Shows He Was Right.
• More Opposition Than Support for Falcon Pipeline at Washington County (DEP) Hearing
• Coal-fired power stations caused surge in airborne mercury pollution, study finds
• Pennsylvania Superior Court Rules That Fracking Natural Gas From a Neighboring Property is Trespassing
• Residents Ask Whether the Proposed Shell Ethane Pipeline is an Acceptable Risk
• Environmental Regulators Seeking Public Input on New Shale Permits
• This Glass Could Turn Our Homes, Cars and Screens Into Power Plants
• EPA to Ease Emissions Standards
• WPXI TV: DEP Public Hearings Start Tuesday for Shell Pipeline
• U.S. Steel to Pay Nearly $900,000 to Settle Lawsuit Over Chromium Spill into Lake Michigan
• Shell Pipeline: Not Quite the Good Neighbor
• COMMENTARY: Study Linking Fracking to Low Birth Weights Must be a Wake-up Call for Regulators
• Judge Recommends Against Pipeline Switch That Could Affect Pittsburgh's Gas Prices
• Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Sunoco Pipeline
• The Health Risks Of Fracking From A To Z
• FirstEnergy Steps Closer Toward Closing Beaver Nuclear Power Plant; 800 Jobs in Peril
• Agency Denies Pipeline's Request for More Time to Cut Trees
• Pennsylvania Industrial Facilities Top List Of Biggest River Polluters Nationwide
• A Once Thriving Coal Town Has Turned Toxic, and Citizens Are Desperate for Help
• Award-Winning Filmmakers & Seneca Nation Threatened by Fracking Industry for Defamation
• Counties With Fracking Have Increased Rates of Sexually Transmitted Infections
• Lawrenceville Firm Threatens Legal Action Against Opponents of its Proposed Frackwater Treatment Plant
• These Five Western Pennsylvania Facilities Are Dumping Toxics into Local Rivers—Often Without Punishment
• New York Tribe Takes on Pittsburgh Startup to Defend the Allegheny River
• Green Groups Sue to Stop EPA Rule Change for Plant Emissions
• DEQ Approves Mountain Valley Pipeline's Plan to Control Erosion and Sediment
• Opposition Mounts to Proposed Shale Gas Wastewater Facility
• Pittsburghers Ask Leading Environmentalist: How Can We Fight Climate Change and Impacts of the Planned Cracker Plant?
• In Pennsylvania, Unions Throw Political Weight Behind Natural Gas
• Shell's Radical Outline For What it Would Take to Halt Climate Change
• Deals Give Companies More Time to Pollute
• Drilling Leaks Contaminate Wetland, River
• ‘You Would Think You Were At Old Faithful’: Bubbling Gas Leaks Causing Concern In Sarver
• Four Years After Declaring War on Pollution, China is Winning
• DEP Extends Comment Period for Pipeline near Ambridge Reservoir
• The Growing Challenge of Sensing Air Pollution
• Hurricane Harvey's Toxic Impact Deeper Than Public Told
• Shell Expects Chemicals Business to Earn up to $4 Billion Annually by 2025
• Local Groups Allege Lack of Transparency from Shell Pipeline
• Black Adults are More likely to Breathe Pollutants that Increase Risk of Dying From Heart Disease, Stroke
• Plastic Within the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is "Increasing Exponentially," Scientists Find
• It's Not Easy Being Green When You're Poor
• Shale Crescent USA Could Challenge Gulf Coast Petrochemical Industry, Study Says
• Letter to the Editor: Companies Admit Fracking's Risks
• Sunoco, Regulators get a Withering Review at Pa. Senate Hearing on Mariner-East Pipeline Problems
• Hampton Gas, Oil regulations Set up for Review
• EPA Proposes Tweaks to Oil Refinery Pollution Rules
• Environmentalists say Allegheny County’s Air Quality is Repellent to Companies Like Amazon
• Pipeline Build-Out Unplugs Some Constraints on Marcellus Gas Production, But New Capacity Could Exceed Demand
• State says PES Owes $3.8 Billion in Back Taxes, Urges Court Hold Up Bankruptcy Plan
• Ohio Democratic Lawmaker Proposes a Ban on Fracking in State Parks and Nature Preserves
• Turns Out Air Pollution Makes for Good Listening – The GASP Podcast
• Energy Transfer Announces a New Gulf Coast Ethane Export Facility
• How Climate Activists Failed to Make Clear the Problem with Natural Gas
• At Allegheny River's Headwaters, Treatment Plant for Fracking Wastewater Stirs Debate
• American Lung Association: Blacks Have More Exposure to Air Pollutants Raising Heart Disease Risk, Death
• Mountaineer Starts Work on Morgan County Gas Pipeline
• A Clash Over How Allegheny County Should Spend Millions Collected from the Region’s Polluters
• Sunoco spills drilling fluid into Lebanon County creek for third time
• Mariner East 2: More HDD Spills and Sinkholes Too?
• Even Under Coal-Boosting President Trump, U.S. Solar Doing Pretty Well
• Proposed Ohio Ethane Cracker Now to Rival Shell Project
• Regulators Tracking Pollution (to be generated by Ohio PTT Petro Plant)
• How Climate Activists Failed to Make Clear the Problem with Natural Gas
• New York Announces Nation-Leading $1.4 Billion Investment in Renewables
• Charles Lane: A Crude (Oil) Awakening
• Editorial: No Ohio Future for Coal
• Microplastic Contamination is Found in Most Bottled Water (Study)
• Four Years After Declaring War on Pollution, China is Winning
• Microplastic Pollution in Oceans is Far Worse Than Feared, Say Scientists
• "The Harms of Fracking,": New Report Details Increased Risks of Asthma, Birth Defects and Cancer
• Mariner East 2: More Spills & Sinkholes Too?
• Gov. Kasich: Proposed $7.5 Billion Petrochemical Plant Adds South Korean Partner
• Sierra Club Says Eastern Ohio Ethane Plant Risky
• See the List of the Top 10 Polluters in the Pittsburgh Region. Then Take Action.
• Pittsburgh International Airport Might Use Natural Gas to Generate Power
• Pennsylvania Tackles A Solar Problem: How To Get More Electricity From The Sun
• DEP Announces Public Hearings for Shale Ethane Cracker Pipeline
• Green Organizations Are Dropping the Ball on Inclusion
• Despite Opposition, Feds OK Marcellus Wastewater Disposal Well in Plum
• China Tests Giant Air Cleaner to Combat Smog
• Coal Emissions Legislation Ignites Debate Between Pittsburgh Lawmakers
• Pipeline Builders, Gas Drillers Fret About Protesters
• A 'Major Second Wave’ of U.S. Fracking Is About to Be Unleashed Upon the World
• Want to Learn About the Polluted Air You Breathe? Start Here.
• Pennsylvania Shuts Down Construction on Sunoco Gas Pipeline
• After Decades Of Air Pollution, A Louisiana Town Rebels Against A Chemical Giant
• Trump's Tariff Leads U.S. Steel to Reopen Big Steelmaking Facility
• Environmental Group Says It Will Sue Over Inactivity on Allegheny County Air Pollution Permits
• Trump's Deplorable Vision for U.S Steel Industry
• Mariner 2 Restart Deal Called Breach of Contract
• More States Join the Fight to Reduce Global Warming
• For Poor and Minority Children, Excessive Air Pollution Creates a Toxic Learning Environment
• U.S. Natural Gas Trade Groups Says Steel Import Tariffs May Delay New Projects
• Rome to Ban Diesel Cars from City Centre by 2024
• Conservancy Program Drills Down on Energy Extraction's Environmental Impact
• More Lawsuits Flow Against Mariner East Construction
• Author Answers Hot-Button Questions on Fracking, Including Climate Impact
• Environmental Groups Seek Injunction to Halt Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction
• More Than a Week after an Explosion (in Ohio), Gas Still Pours from Frack Well
• Do We Even Need the Clean Power Plan?
• Data to the people: Activists Use Explosion of Information to Bring Oil and Gas Projects Home to Citizens
• Amsterdam Supermarket Has an Aisle with 700 Grocery Items and No Plastic
• Federal Judge Blocks Construction Of Bayou Bridge Pipeline
• Lifting the Fog
• Residents Evacuated After High Pressure Leak in Somerset
• New EPA Report Concludes Environmental Racism is Real
• Fracking Near Fox Chapel – Video Report
• 10 Industrial Plants Emit 70 percent of Pittsburgh Area Air Pollution
• Pittsburgh Air Quality Among Poorest, Study Says
• PennEnvironment Releases Toxic 10 Report for 2018
• Construction Complete on 100-mile Gas Pipeline Through Beaver County
• Coke Plant Pollution Linked to “Asthma Epidemic” in Pittsburgh-Area Elementary School
• Company planning to drill for gas at U.S. Steel’s Edgar Thomson Mill
• Pittsburgh Presbytery opposes Beaver County cracker plant
• Climate action plan, cracker plant and a broken furnace: Key takeaways from interview with Pittsburgh top environmental official
• Environmental Group Opposes Monroeville’s Proposed Rules on Oil and Gas Activity
• PennEast Pipeline Seeks Eminent Domain, Plus U.S. Marshals to Protect Workers
• Neighbors use novel constitutional argument to try and stop shale drilling
• Pipeline Construction Resumes, as Groups Condemn DEP Decision
• Sunoco to resume work, pay $12.6 million for Mariner East 2 pipeline violations
• Petition calling on Shell Pipeline to be more transparent gathers 4,000 signatures
• Video: Residents petition for additional regulations near Ambridge Reservoir
• Ambridge residents worried that Shell pipelines could endanger water supply
• Residents urge Ambridge Water Authority to protect reservoir from pipeline
• Study Highlights Concerns Over Planned Route of Shell Pipeline
• Building a Pipeline, One Landowners at a Time
• Group wants more time on permits for Shell's pipeline
• Shell’s Falcon ethane pipeline will cross 9 Pa. municipalities, FracTracker says
• Activists Want More Time to Review Shell Falcon Pipeline Permits
• Environmental groups seek more time to review Shell Falcon pipeline impact
• What pipeline? Maronda homeowners ask
• Ambridge Water Authority Opposes Planned Shell Pipeline Route
• Our right to clean air should extend indoors
• The Mon-Fayette Expressway feels like ‘Groundhog Day
• Trading health for boom-bust jobs is shortsighted
• The cracker plant will emit dangerous pollutants
• DEP Extends Comment Period for Pipeline near Ambridge Reservoir
• Protect the Ambridge Reservoir
• County Must Crackdown on Odor Violations
• Shell plant construction shows massive project's impending impact
• Pollution Action shouldn’t Wait for Proof of Harm
• No seismic testing in Monroeville
• Fracking Dangers
• Will Amazon want to be downwind of the Shell cracker plant?
• By Investing in Clean Energy, we can have Jobs and Healthier Air
• Petrochemical America exhibit to spark Dialogue in Beaver
• Work Together to Breathe Easier
• We Can’t Hide Our Dirty Little Secret (Poor Air Quality)
• Look to Solar Farms for the Region’s Health
• The Oil and Gas Industry has Built a Trap for this Region
• LTE: Company Execs should have to live near Fracking
• Braddock Mayor should Reconsider his Support for Shale Wells
• Fracking is Putting Our Water at Risk
• Shell Pipeline Path Threatens Ambridge Reservoir
• Take Action to Oppose Falcon Pipeline Route
• The Constant Risk from the Bruce Mansfield Plant
• PennFuture Invites You to Get Informed, Get Angry and Call Out Your #ToxicNeighbor
• Your Health vs. Cracker Plant jobs
• Nurses must Fight Climate Change
• Asthma Among Us: Trouble in the Air Inside and Out
• Pollution Solution: This Project makes Air Monitoring a Public Effort
• Clearing the Air: A Smart Approach by County Air-Pollution Rules
• Eyes Wide Open, the Cons, and Pros, of a Big Petrochemical Plant
• Environmental Safety is Our Responsibility
• Killer Air Feature Series
• Shell’s Falcon Ethane Pipeline will Cross 9 Pa. Municipalities, FracTracker says
• Study fills in Missing Data on Homes, Schools, Habitats at Risk from Shell’s Falcon Pipeline
• State Official (Shapiro): Driller Won't Force Our Hand
• Want Healthier Babies? Shut Down Coal Plants
• Corporate Speech Drowning Out Citizen Activists
• No is no is no': A Tiny Township's Fight Against Oil and Gas Waste Disposal

Campaigns

• Take the Power Back!
• Clean Air Council's Southwest Pennsylvania Neighbors for Clean Air
• “No Idling” Diesel Campaign
• Taking On Industrial Pollution and Greenhouse Gases
• Solar for Shenango
• Protect the Ambridge Reservoir, Surrounding Communities from the Shell Falcon Pipeline

Solutions

• Take Action at Home
• Stay Informed On Legal and Policy Work
• Attend a Public Meeting
• Provide Public Comment
• Pennsylvania Citizen Toolkit
• Reach Out
• Write a Letter to the Editor or Op-Ed
• Report a Problem

Events

• Shale Insight Conference Returns to Pittsburgh
• Air Adventures – A Summer Air Quality Camp – Sign Up Now!
• Northeast U.S. Petrochemical Construction Conference
• The Gas Industry/Petrochemical Buildout in Southwestern PA and Pathways to Our Sustainable Future
• 100% Renewable PA Lobby Day in Harrisburg – Board the Bus!
• Lung Force Expo Pittsburgh– American Lung Assoc.
• 28th Annual Heartwood Forest Council, "Edge Effects"
• Ohio DEP Announces Public Hearing on Shell Ethane Pipeline
• Where Plastic Ends Up - An International Perspective on Plastics

Collaborative Members

• PennFuture
• Women for a Healthy Environment
• Environmental Health Project, Southwest Pennsylvania
• Sierra Club Pennslyvania
• Pediatric Alliance
• ROCIS (Reducing Outdoor Contaminants in Indoor Spaces)
• PennEnvironment Research and Policy Center
• Lowell Center for Sustainable Production at the University of Massachusetts
• The Heinz Endowments
• Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP)
• FracTracker Alliance
• Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services
• Environmental Integrity Project
• Duquesne University School of Pharmacy
• Community Foundation for the Alleghenies
• Carnegie Mellon University CREATE Lab
• Carnegie Mellon University Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies (CAPS)
• Clean Water Action
• Clean Air Task Force
• Clean Air Council
• Center for Healthy Environments & Communities (CHEC), University of Pittsburgh
• Blue Lens
• Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community
• American Lung Association in Pennsylvania
• Allegheny County Clean Air Now

Glossary

• Wood Burning
• TRI
• Title V
• Sulfur Dioxide
• Shutdown
• Sensitive groups (also called at-risk populations)
• Quenching
• Point Source Pollution
• PM10
• PM2.5
• Particle pollution
• Non-Point Source Pollution
• Nonattainment Area
• Nitrogen Oxides (NOx)
• National Ambient Air Quality Standards, (NAAQS)
• Modeling
• Million square cubic feet of gas per day, (MMscfd)
• Micrograms per Cubic Meter of Air, or ug/m3
• Lead
• Inversion
• HEPA (high-efficiency particulate air) filter 
• Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPS)
• Ground-level Ozone (O3)
• Greenhouse Gases (GHG)
• Fugitive Emissions
• Fracking
• Flaring
• Excess Emissions
• Environment Facility Application Compliance Tracking System (eFACTS)
• Cracker
• Carbon Dioxide equivalent (CO2e)
• Criteria pollutants
• Carcinogen
• Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
• Black Carbon (BC)
• Attainment Area
• Carbon monoxide (CO)
• At-risk individuals
• Air Quality Index (AQI)

Staff

• Debra Diamond Smit
• Matt Mehalik

Careers

• Green Building Alliance – Pittsburgh 2030 District Intern
• Green Building Alliance - 2030 Outreach Coordinator
• Fair Shakes 2018 Summer Internship Program
• Clean Water Action – Environmental Justice Organizer - Pittsburgh
• 
Green Building Alliance:  Pittsburgh 2030 District Intern, Summer 2018
• PennEnvironment – Statewide Opportunities
• Women for a Healthy Environment
• Sierra Club of Pa.
• ROCIS Low Cost-Monitoring Project
• GASP
• Clean Water Action
• Clean Air Council
• PennEnvironment - Internships
• Fractracker –Internships Spring-Summer 2018
• PennEnvironment – Environment America Fellowship
• PennEnvironment – Climate Defender Organizer
• PennFuture – Database Manager

Communities

• Fellowship
• Full Time
• Internship Paid
• Internship Unpaid
• Volunteer