Shell, Environmentalists Reach Cracker Plant Pollution Deal

Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | TwitterMONACA, Pa. (AP) – Shell Chemical Appalachia and environmental groups have reached a deal for pollution controls on a planned $6 billion petrochemical, or ethane cracker, plant in western Pennsylvania.
Shell, the Clean Air Council, and the Environmental Integrity Project say the agreement ends the groups’ appeal of an air pollution permit granted by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection more than two years ago.
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