CLEAN UP ACROSS THE STATE

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has spent millions providing drinking water to residents while cleaning up cancer-causing chemicals across the state. They will need millions more to clean up barrels recently discovered in a closed-down Beaver County business. The contents are a mystery as the barrels are simply marked “Dark Acid”. An even bigger problem is that the “State Superfund” used for these projects is going broke while many sites remain untouched. DEP’s McDonnell is confident that some solution will be worked out, but his predecessor from the Ridge administration is not sure anything less than an actual catastophe will move the needle.