Shell’s Falcon Pipeline would run through Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, transporting the ethane necessary to fuel the cracker plant its building in Western, PA. The cracker creates ethylene, which is used in manufacturing plastics.
Ohioans are concerned about the impact that all the new well pads, pipelines, compressor stations and diesel truck traffic are having on the environment and the quality of life in their rural communities. What can they learn from what has happened in southwestern Pennsylvania?
There’s been no clear decrease in the pollutants feeding persistent algae blooms over the past five years despite billions of dollars in investments to reduce pollution.
The company sites "market challenges." Natural gas and renewable energy have been making up a larger amount of the country’s electric grid, eating into coal and nuclear power.
Residents reaction to a consent decree with a Pittsburgh-based company is mixed, despite a study that linked higher manganese in kids from East Liverpool with lower IQ.
Gas poured from the well head at a rate estimated by the EPA of 100 million cubic feet per day for 20 days before crews were able to plug it it on March 7.
A new report details how the federal government and states plan to fight algae blooms in Lake Erie. The idea is to target phosphorus, the main cause of the blooms.
In addition to monitoring the air, regulators have set up floating booms in nearby Captina Creek to protect it from salty brine water that’s also pouring from the well.
