After over 100 citizens packed into an Allegheny County Council public hearing last week to support a ban on fracking in public parks, county Executive Rich Fitzgerald said he will not support the legislation.
Protesters gathered outside Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald's Point Breeze home late Sunday afternoon to emphasize their demand that he stop supporting shale gas drilling and the petrochemical industries.
Allegheny County reckons with new challenges and questions about priorities after a decade of improving air quality ended in one of the worst pollution episodes in recent memory.