Beaver County Data Analysis: 2025 Update
Fri, Feb 07
|Virtual Event


Time & Location
Feb 07, 2025, 1:00 PM EST
Virtual Event
About the event
Beaver County continues to lag the state & nation in key measures of economic wellbeing since Shell's petrochemical complex was announced, data show.
On February 7, ORVI & EHP released new research on Beaver County's economic trajectory and discussed concerning health impacts to people living near petrochemical facilities.
Please click here to view and download the report and a digital summary & toolkit on ORVI's site. Click here to view a recording of the webinar on YouTube.
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Related resources:
EHP's Petrochemicals Story Map, which displays environmental justice indicators from the EPA’s EJScreen tool (2023 data) and socioeconomic data from the CDC near petrochemical projects in the Ohio River Valley.
"Misplaced Faith," which shows how the shale gas boom has failed to stem or even reduce job and population losses in the rural Pennsylvania counties where the gas industry is most prevalent.
"Pennsylvania's Bad Bet," which demonstrates how a pair of faulty economic impact studies misled policymakers on Shell's economic benefits.