The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
Opinion | The air we breathe is killing (some of) us

Opinion | The air we breathe is killing (some of) us

By Grace DeLallo, Staff Columnist • November 17, 2021
The air we breathe actively harms the residents of Pittsburgh, and the state government seems to be allowing it.
Free the Planet, an environmental organization at Pitt, organized Friday morning’s banner drop off of Smithfield Street bridge in protest of the construction of Beaver County’s ethylene cracker plant. (Photo courtesy of Mark Dixon)

Pitt protesters pressure Peduto on Shell plant

By Jon Kunitsky | For the Pitt News • June 5, 2018

The seven-year-long battle over an ethane cracker plant between Shell Chemical, the petrochemicals arm of Royal Dutch Shell, and clean-climate activists took another turn Friday morning when a group...

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