In the months since a Shell plant making pellets for plastics began operating, residents complained about the plant’s pollution. On Wednesday, Shell agreed to pay $10M for exceeding emissions limits. Story produced in partnership with GlobalRepCentre.
the agency has dealt 11 “notices of violation” to the company, nearly all due to excess emissions.
Portions of a Norfolk Southern freight train burn after a derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, in February.In February and March, two separate, dramatic flaring events occurred as residents were already struggling to cope with a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio — just a half-hour away — that ignited a toxic inferno. Plumes of black smoke and orange fire billowed from the cracker’s stacks for hours.
Over the past decade, state leaders in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania have pursued the plastics industry as a way to breathe economic life into the region, offering multinational companies more than a billion dollars in tax breaks and other subsidies to draw in plastics manufacturing projects. “Do I believe $10 million is going to do any damage to Shell as a whole? Absolutely not. It’s a slap on the wrist. But it’s in the right direction.”
“Flares are kind of this emergency response to, ‘We’ve got a problem, we’ve got to start burning stuff,” he said. “The hope is that you’re not forming lots of bad pollutants, but you always form some pollutants when you combust.”
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