{"id":279538,"date":"2026-09-05T06:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279538\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T06:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:36:14","slug":"pennsylvania-secures-15-millions-settlement-from-shell-following-air-quality-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279538\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania secures $15 millions settlement from Shell following air quality violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">POTTERS TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014 Pennsylvania leaders say the Commonwealth just secured a $15 million settlement with Shell over air quality violations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Shapiro administration said Shell admitted to exceeding emissions limits for contaminants and other environmental requirements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cDEP is continuing to hold Shell accountable for air quality violations and continuing to secure resources to improve the neighboring communities,\u201d said DEP Secretary Jessica Shirley. \u201cThis penalty and the new Beaver County Environment and Community Fund will help improve the surrounding communities and reduce the impact from the facility on the people that live there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Half of the settlement will go to Beaver County, home of Shell\u2019s ethane cracker plant in Potter Township, for community improvement projects, including solar energy installations, museum exhibits and local park upgrades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Shell is also required to submit plans to improve the facility\u2019s flaring system and upgrade its wastewater treatment plant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"POTTERS TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014 Pennsylvania leaders say the Commonwealth just secured a $15 million settlement with Shell over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14159,869,139,859,28,30,29,74,116953,2639,2638,3415,25182,3823,420,860],"class_list":["post-279538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-beaver_county","tag-channel_11","tag-news","tag-ott_news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-potter_township","tag-rick","tag-rick_earl","tag-shapiro","tag-shell","tag-susan","tag-video","tag-wpxi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}