Clean Air Council


20th of October 2023

ENCINA WITHDRAWS CRITICAL PERMIT APPLICATION FOR PROPOSED PETROCHEMICAL FACILITY

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, PA (October 20, 2023) – This week, Texas-based Encina withdrew a critical application for a permit that it needs to build a plastic waste processing facility in Point […]


13th of October 2023

Clean Air Council Responds to Federal Funding for Two Hydrogen Hubs in the Pennsylvania Region

PHILADELPHIA, PA (October 13, 2020) – Today, President Biden announced that $7 billion dollars in U.S. federal grants will fund multiple groupings (“hubs”) of hydrogen projects, two located partially in […]


11th of October 2023

Legal Lens: Ending PA’s Corporate Welfare for the Oil and Gas Industry

This summer, Clean Air Council and partners filed a joint lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, challenging a recently-passed law that blocks critical efforts to require oil and gas companies […]


6th of October 2023

Parking to Parklet: The Council Joins PARK(ing) Day 2023 In Philadelphia

Car centric road design requires a tremendous amount of parking, but what if this public space was used for something else? Each year in cities across the world, people come […]


4th of October 2023

Joseph Minott, Long-time Executive Director of Clean Air Council, to Retire at End of 2023

Philadelphia, Pa. (October 4, 2023) – Clean Air Council announces the retirement of its longtime executive director, Joseph Otis Minott, Esq. After an accomplished tenure as one of the region’s […]


25th of August 2023

Environmental Groups Sue Pennsylvania’s General Assembly and Governor Josh Shapiro for Not Holding Oil & Gas Companies Accountable for Abandoned Wells

HARRISBURG, PA [August 23, 2023] — Today, PennFuture, the Sierra Club, Clean Air Council, Protect Penn-Trafford, and Earthworks filed a joint lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, including Governor Josh […]


1st of August 2023

Feet First Philly Launches Fourth Year of Pedestrian Enhancement Mini-Grant Program

PHILADELPHIA, PA (August 1, 2023) Feet First Philly (FFP), a volunteer led pedestrian advocacy organization and a project of the Clean Air Council, launched the fourth round of their Public […]


18th of July 2023

Permit Denied For Dangerous LNG Rail Transport Route

Clean Air Council and residents along a proposed route to transport liquefied natural gas (LNG) had a huge win this spring after a federal agency denied a Special Permit to […]


EPA Must Strengthen New Power Plant Rule To Specify Green Hydrogen Use Only

Pennsylvania has the fourth-highest energy related emissions in the country with coal and gas-fired power plants being the largest individual industrial climate polluters in the state. Producing electricity accounts for […]


Working for Climate Resiliency in Southeastern Pennsylvania: Part II

The impacts of climate change are already being widely felt in the mid-Atlantic region.  From wildfire smoke to urban heat islands, to unprecedented flooding during storms, our communities are now […]


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