Harrisburg, PA - Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future (PennFuture) today announced that it had reached an agreement with Hanover Foods for the ongoing and persistent water pollution at its food processing plant in Centre Hall, Pennsylvania. The agreement includes a detailed compliance program with new Standard Operating Procedures and monthly progress reports to PennFuture and plaintiff Dr. William E. Sharpe, PhD., as well as the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, and a $400,00

Harrisburg, PA - Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future (PennFuture) today called the response from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to PennFuture’s request that DEP begin regulating poisonous mercury emissions from the state’s power plants, “hopeful, yet disappointing.” The DEP answer to the August, 2004 request for rulemaking on toxic mercury comes on the same day Pennsylvania has joined with other states in suing the federal government for its failure to protect the