Shell could be exploring the sale of its chemical plants, including its recently constructed Beaver County ethane cracker. The plant, which makes polyethylene, a common plastic, is among those that ...

The Shell ethane cracker plant in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. (Mark Dixon/CC BY 2.0 Deed) This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that ...

MONACA, Pa. (AP) — Shell Chemical Appalachia LLC is building a petrochemical plant in northwestern Pennsylvania that will create up to 6,000 construction jobs and 600 permanent jobs once it begins ...

An image of the Shell plastics plant in Pennsylvania on April 26. Shell said April 25 that it would start using its “elevated flare this afternoon” and expected the work to continue through the ...

An explosion was reported at Shell’s ethane cracker in Beaver County Wednesday afternoon. A company spokeswoman stated that smoke was seen coming off of a furnace unit at the plant around 2:20 p.m.

While filming a documentary about oceans on a boat in the Pacific Ocean several years ago, producer and director Steve Cowan encountered a shocking scene. “We were surrounded from horizon to horizon ...