Starting this weekend, 74 trees will be planted along blocks of Kensington Street in South Allison Hill, parks at 4th and Dauphin Streets, and other locations.
FILE — In this May 12, 2020 file photo, construction is seen on the Shell Chemicals Beaver County ethane cracker plant in Potter Township, Pa. Years in the works, a massive petrochemical refinery in western Pennsylvania fed by the vast natural gas reservoir underneath Appalachia became fully operational Tuesday, oil and gas giant Shell plc said.
The announcement comes amid ongoing concerns about the potential environmental and health effects of fracking, and more than three years after a grand jury concluded thatGov. Josh Shapiro was set to appear with Nick Deiuliis, CNX’s president and CEO, at a news conference in Washington County later Thursday. State officials say they expect the program to “definitively measure” emissions at well sites.
At the same time, Deiuliis said in a phone interview, “I'm expecting to learn things through this radical transparency and the data that are going to come from it, and I expect many of those learnings are going to result in tweaks and refinements and improvements to the way we go about manufacturing natural gas responsibly.”
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