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The Delaware County arm of the Clear Air Council has issued its final report on the Chester-Marcus Hook corridor air monitoring program, which shows that air quality in the area of its 30 monitors remains either good or moderate over time except when the area experiences wildfire fallout, and then it veers to the worst rating of “hazardous.”
The Democrats’ sweeping success at the national level in last week’s midterms was mirrored in major swings at the state level as well. In Pennsylvania, where Democrats flipped the state Senate, the party will control both chambers of the legislature and the governor’s office for the first time since 1993.
The Save the Mozino Forest organization reports two new developments. The developer has filed an application for a permit to build 51 single-family homes and he has given the group one year to raise the funds to buy the tract from him and preserve it instead.
The Radnor School District is taking part in an alternative- fuels initiative to replace eight school buses with propane-fueled buses, both to save money over the long term and to substantially reduce air pollution emissions.
Reprinted from Inside Climate News By Kyle Bagenstose October 30, 2026 In what might have been his last hearing as chair of Pennsylvania’s House Environmental and Natural Resource Protection committee, […]
The public has only until Nov. 24 to submit comments on an extensive proposed rule to bring the state’s standards up to the level of the federal government with regard to limiting the amount of lead and copper that can be permitted in public drinking water systems.
The referendum to protect Delaware County water, land and wildlife was a huge winner in the midterm election, getting 171,131 unofficial yes votes (75.6% of the vote) to 55,249 (24.4%) unofficial no votes. The referendum spectacularly outperformed its pre-campaign polling that had suggested in might win by a 60% to 40% yes vote.
The Clean Air Council will hold a virtual community meeting to share the data and results of its three-year air monitoring program along the Chester-Marcus hook industrial corridor. The meeting is Wednesday Nov. 11 at 6:30 p.m.
The League supports the referendum to protect Delco water, land and wildlife. A yes vote on the referendum will enable the Delaware County Council to secure a $120 million bond issue that will help protect water quality, rebuild eroded stream banks on our many creeks, restart the Greenways program to develop walking and biking trails and parks and much more.
