Also, vacant property programs lead to little impact.
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In this newsletter: For our latest investigative story ([link removed]) , PublicSource environment and climate reporter Quinn Glabicki took a deep dive into hundreds of documents that show Shell's cracker plant — which operates along the banks of the Ohio River in Beaver County — has been troubled since the day it opened ([link removed]) .
Also, over the past two decades, both Harrisburg and Allegheny County have enabled programs to combat vacancy in municipalities like Wilkinsburg. However, the three most widely known and used pieces — sheriff’s sale, conservatorship and the county’s Vacant Property Recovery Program — have all failed to tackle the problem, but change may be coming ([link removed]) .
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** Inside Pennsylvania’s monitoring of the Shell petrochemical complex ([link removed])
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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.
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** Many tools, little impact: Abandoned property programs struggle to address vacancy problem, but change may be coming ([link removed])
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* The Lindy Group, which has more than a dozen asphalt plants in Pennsylvania, has requested to boost hours and emissions at its Uptown asphalt plant ([link removed]) . Neighbors and environmental advocates find the plant’s emissions concerning and the public input process flimsy.
* At some Pittsburgh universities more students are taking on larger amounts of private debt than others nationwide ([link removed]) . Private loan debt can be “the most debilitating for people who already have the least access to higher education and to generational wealth,” said Ben Kaufman, a fellow at the Student Borrower Protection Center.
* Pittsburgh has one of the country’s largest concentrations of residents age 65 and over, with many still working beyond retirement age ([link removed]) , our news partner Technical.ly reports.
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