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Plastic Recycling Plant Could Send Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Into the Susquehanna River, Polluting a Vital Drinking Water Source
Warnings that a large-scale plastics recycling plant planned along a floodplain in Central Pennsylvania could flush toxic PFAS into the Susquehanna River, a major source of drinking water for millions, are stirring a budding opposition movement. The Houston-based startup company Encina, which proposes to build the $1.1 billion advanced recycling plant in Northumberland County, says […]
Read MoreAn Environmental Group Challenges a Proposed Plastics ‘Advanced Recycling’ Plant in Pennsylvania
A Philadelphia environmental group has filed an appeal to block a proposed $1.1 billion “advanced” plastics recycling plant in rural Pennsylvania after the administration of Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, exempted the facility from having to obtain a solid waste permit. The Clean Air Council believes its challenge may be the first after a 2020 […]
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