NEWS: Will a Push for Plastics Turn Appalachia into the Next Cancer Alley? (The Guardian)

By Emily Holden Construction cranes climb into the sky and sprawl across the massive petrochemical facility that will turn a byproduct of fracked gas into plastic on the banks of the Ohio River, just outside Pittsburgh. Even at a distance, from the car park of a cancer treatment centre on a nearby hilltop, Royal Dutch Shell’s 386-acreContinue reading NEWS: Will a Push for Plastics Turn Appalachia into the Next Cancer Alley? (The Guardian)