Impacts www.post-gazette.com Ashley Macik: Bill Peduto is right to denounce the petrochemical buildout in Western Pennsylvania The health of our community and environment is more important than prosperity.
Politics www.alleghenyfront.org Uneasy state of affairs: Scotland's use of American shale gas Despite a ban on fracking, Scotland imports shale gas from Pennsylvania for its plastics industry. This has some activists saying 'no fracking here, no fracking anywhere.'
A controversial facility that would process plastic waste to be burned in steel mills has been cancelled
Multiple Houston-area oil and gas facilities that have violated pollution laws are seeking permit renewals
