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Inside Pennsylvania’s Monitoring of the Shell Petrochemical Complex
Hundreds of documents show that Shell’s cracker plant has been troubled since the day it opened, and Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection has struggled to keep up.
By Quinn Glabicki, PublicSource
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