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Delaware County Environmental Clearinghouse
Monroe Energy’s tank farm in Aston, Bethel and Upper Chichester townships has leaked as much as 278,000 gallons of gasoline into the groundwater at the site since last summer, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection disclosed Dec. 23.
The Interior Department announced Monday it is pausing leases for all five large-scale offshore wind projects under construction in America, citing unspecified issues of national security.
The Trump administration’s anti-renewables policies have left gigawatts’ worth of new solar and wind projects strangled in red tape. So as Congress revisits energy-permitting reform, which it’s tried and failed to pass several times over the past few years, solar companies are taking a stand.
A Dec. 4 letter from 143 of those companies to congressional leaders takes aim at one Trump directive in particular: A July order from the Department of the Interior that requires its head, Doug Burgum, to personally approve every decision the agency makes on renewable energy. In the five months since that change, Burgum hasn’t signed off on any new solar projects on federal lands.
Chester Residents Concerned with Quality Living (CRCQL) is asking Philadelphia and Delaware County residents to call or email Philadelphia City Council members to urge them to vote for the Stop Trashing Our Air Act that would bar the city from sending its trash to the Reworld incinerator in Chester. The vote was postponed so there is still time to be heard. Reworld and the trash incinerator industry is fighting back with full page ads in the Inquirer.
