PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2023

On May 4, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it will receive public comments and host a May 17 in-person public hearing regarding a plan approval application for Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT III) requirements for Covanta Delaware Valley, LP, a waste to energy facility in the City of Chester, Delaware County.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2023

May 11, the Environmental Integrity Project and Clean Air Council filed a federal lawsuit against the Shell Petrochemical Plant for repeatedly violating permitted air pollution limits from a massive new plastics production plant in Beaver County, which opened last year. In a lawsuit filed in the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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