LWV DelCo Environmental Clearinghouse
Delaware County Environmental Clearinghouse
More than 20 states, including North Carolina, New York, California and Pennsylvania, as well as several cities, are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over its repeal of most greenhouse gas emissions standards for coal- and natural gas-fired power plants. The agency’s proposal would also thwart future administrations from reinstating the rule.
The Office of Environmental Justice invites you to our next upcoming Environmental Justice Speaker Series; Overview of Environmental Cleanup focused on the Hazardous Sites Clean-up Act (HSCA) Program, PA’s Land Recycling Voluntary Cleanup Program (Act 2), and Public Involvement […]
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and Delaware County Planning Department representatives reported that air particulate matter pollution was fairly low along the I-95 industrial corridor from January to May of this year.
Register now for the DEP’s virtual presentation of its findings of the air quality along the I-95 corridor around Chester, Marcus Hook, Lower and Upper Chi, and Upland Township, July 30, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.. The presentation will cover monitoring results from January to May of this year.
As electricity demand rises across Pennsylvania—driven in part by the rapid growth of energy-hungry data centers—policymakers face an important choice: invest in clean energy or continue relying on costly, polluting […]
MIPC will hold a virtual public meeting July 7 at 6 p.m. to update Aston, Upper Chichester and Bethel homeowners and the public on the current status of the Chelsea Tank farm gasoline leak last winter that spilled 378,000 gallons of fuel from one of its tanks.
Radnor Township residents are debating whether the township commissioners should adopt an ordinance phasing out gas-powered leaf blowers as Lower Merion did last December. Radnor residents can make their opinions known at a town hall planned for April 23.
Monroe Interstate Pipeline Company will again hold office hours at the Aston Township building on March 3 following a 378,000-gallon leak at its Chelsea Tank Farm in December.
The next office hours session is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 3 at the Aston facility at 3264 Concord Road.
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 Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission is involved in a process to allow electric grid operator PJM to charge its ratepayers across 13 states an estimated $70 million a year to keep the Eddystone oil-and-gas power plant operating. The DOE ordered the plant, on the brink of retirement, to keep running for two three-month periods this summer and fall and it is unclear whether the order will be made permanent. The Trump Administration plans to order Forty coal plants across the country to keep operating as well.
