A report by U.S. Steel investigators found that multiple equipment failures made the fire bigger and more destructive.
By Reid Frazier Last year, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection issued a record $30 million fine to the company for the blast, focusing on the pipeline’s faulty slope stabilization.
An environmental group had challenged the company’s air quality permit.
The company said the county is not “honoring its end of the bargain” struck as part of a 2019 settlement over air pollution violations.
Shell said the odors could be associated with anti-corrosion treatments to the plant’s cooling water tower.
A mounting body of evidence shows that continued warming is making storms more intense.
A federal judge said the Trump rule — known as the Navigable Waters Protection Rule — had “fundamental, substantive flaws” that “would risk serious environmental harm” if it were upheld, by exposing hundreds of waterways to pollution.
The agency chose not to issue a fine but ordered the company to correct the alleged problems.
