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The Shell ethane cracker plant in Beaver County, PA (near Pittsburgh) has experienced a number of problems over the past six months during startup, including flaring and foul odors (see Shell Hosts Virtual Meeting with Community re Cracker Problems). Earlier this month, Shell's new CEO called the cracker plant problems "technical niggles," meaning minor irritations

Something that -- that tool that was blocked in florida is able to do, really trying to figure out ways to get more people out of the system, more people on to the streets so that they can make room in these facilities for more of their incoming. and so the white house did not react kindly to that thursday order. listen to karine jean-pierre on friday. >> it is sabotage, pure and simple. that is how that reads to us. it is a harmful ruling and the department of justice will fight it. republican ...

Yesterday two radicalized Big Green groups--the Environmental Integrity Project (based in D.C.) and the Clean Air Council (based in Philadelphia)--filed a lawsuit against the Shell Polymers Monaca Plant (ethane cracker plant in Beaver County, PA), claiming the plant has repeatedly violated federal air pollution limits. The lawsuit requests the court assess huge fines and force

The Shell ethane cracker plant in Beaver County, PA (near Pittsburgh) has experienced a number of problems over the past six months during startup, including flaring and foul odors (see Shell Hosts Virtual Meeting with Community re Cracker Problems). Last Thursday, Shell (the mothership company) issued its first quarter update, including a conference call with

PRF makes submissions for National Budget

In late 2015, MPLX (i.e. Marathon Petroleum) bought out and merged in the Utica Shale’s premier midstream company, MarkWest Energy, for $15 billion (see MarkWest Energy Investors/Unitholders Approve Merger with Marathon). The “new” MarkWest, aka MPLX, plays on a much larger stage now, including ownership and operation of major assets in the Permian Basin and

New Delhi [India], April 28 (ANI/FleishmanHillard): Delfrez, India's leading omni-channel poultry brand from the house of Suguna Foods adopts the voluntary 'Soy Fed Product' label across all their range of Ready-to-cook and Ready-to-eat meat products. The 'Soy Fed' Product label aims to enable consumers to make informed food decisions and distinguish packaged poultry, meat, and fish that are fed with soy meals, as soy's superior amino acid profile and amino acid digestibi...

US Methanol broke ground yesterday in Institute (Kanawha County), WV for its very first methanol production plant. In August 2016 MDN was the first to share the news that US Methanol is building at least two, rumored up to five, methanol plants in the Mountain State (see Rumor: US Methanol Building 5 Methanol Plants in

Last night, Shell hosted a virtual community meeting to address air monitoring and recent problems experienced at the company's ethane cracker plant in Beaver County, PA. Executives answered questions about the plant's environmental record over the past six months, including a recent odor event earlier this month (see PA DEP Investigates Bad Odor Coming from

Risk assessment models will allow Perdue and other poultry producers to optimize Salmonella control strategies in their supply chain.