November 6, 2025

Environmental Injustice: Op-Ed piece by Thom Nixon (11/6/25)

Opinion piece featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer on Thursday, November 6th, written by Thom Nixon Original article here: https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/letters/letters-editor-november-6-2025-20251106.html I grew up in Chester, a small city along the Delaware River in the shadow of Philadelphia and Wilmington. For generations, residents here have lived with the consequences of environmental injustice — industries polluting our air, land, and water while communities […]

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November 6, 2025

Proposed LNG facility in Eddystone draws community’s ire: ’24/7 emitters’

Read original article here: https://www.delcotimes.com/2025/11/06/proposed-lng-facility-in-eddystone-draws-communitys-ire-24-7-emitters/ By Alex Rose | [email protected] | The Delaware County Daily Times PUBLISHED: November 6, 2025 at 7:30 AM EST Numerous panelists laid out the potential environmental, economic, safety and health effects of building a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal in southeast Delaware County on Wednesday before the state House Environmental & Natural Resources Protection Committee. The long and short of […]

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November 6, 2025

‘We’ve moved on’: Chester mayor and environmentalists object to LNG terminal proposal

Opponents spoke in response to a yearslong plan by Penn LNG to build a liquefied natural gas export terminal in Chester or nearby in Southeastern Pennsylvania along the Delaware River. Follow link to for original article: https://www.inquirer.com/business/energy/chester-city-lng-plant-hearing-20251106.html Chester Mayor Stefan Roots came up withan idea as he waited to testify Wednesday during a Pennsylvania legislative committee hearing on a proposed […]

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Dear Penn America: Nobody wants your LNG Terminal
November 6, 2025

Dear Penn America: Nobody wants your LNG Terminal

Link to original article here: https://envirodelco.org/2025/11/dear-penn-america-nobody-wants-your-lng-terminal/ By Jodine Mayberry, Delaware County Environmental Clearinghouse “LNG stands for lies and greed,” said James Hiatt who came all the way from Lake Charles, Louisiana, to testify before the Pennsylvania House Environmental and Natural Resources Protection Committee. The public hearing at Chester City Hall Nov. 5 was focused on a proposed liquid natural gas […]

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November 11, 2023

LNG Task Force Release Final Report and Spread Lies!

The PA Legislature passed a bill in 2022, and Governor Wolf signed it into law, setting up a “Philadelphia LNG Task Force”. The job of the task force was to target southeast PA in the Delaware River Watershed as a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export hub, regardless of the public safety and health harms of explosive and polluting LNG, the inevitable environmental […]

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October 14, 2023

WE ACT Features CRCQL

New York City based environmental justice organization WE ACT for Environmental Justice recently interviewed Chairperson Zulene Mayfield and created a short, informative video about EJ issues facing Chester and CRCQL’s fight for true justice! https://www.facebook.com/weactforej/videos/6900221933377800

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October 8, 2023

Chairperson Zulene and C4 Elicit Anti-LNG Stance from Delaware County Council

On Wednesday, October 4th, CRCQL Chairperson, Zulene Mayfield, and numerous students from the Campus Coalition Concerning Chester (C4) demanded that the Delaware County Council take a stronger stance against the potential LNG facility to be sited in Chester. After listening to about a dozen anti-LNG public comments, every council person announced their opposition to the LNG facility.

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September 21, 2023

Swarthmore’s Connection to Environmental (In)Justice in Chester (9/21/23)

By Chris Folk, C-4 Student https://swarthmorephoenix.com/2023/09/21/swarthmores-connection-to-environmental-injustice-in-chester/ Located in the fourth richest county in Pennsylvania, Swarthmore is a utopian suburb for wealthy, liberal whites, where people regularly live into their eighties. Swarthmore, the town and college, can easily feel like a bubble – physically and psychologically isolated from the rest of the world. When one wants to get out and go […]

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