Radical Antis File Lawsuit Aiming to Shut Down Shell PA Cracker

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 it close down unless it can operate without any further violations of the federal Clean Air Act (CAA) and the federal Air Pollution Control Act (APCA). In other words, the radicals seek to shut down the $10 billion plant and keep it shut down--throwing 600 permanent employees out of work. Nice people at the Environmental Integrity Project and Clean Air Council, eh?

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