FACT CHECK: Trump claims credit for Shell plant announced under Obama
1 / 3TrumpPresident Donald Trump speaks at the Pennsylvania Shell ethylene cracker plant on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019 in Monaca, Pa. MONACA, Pennsylvania — President Donald Trump sought to take credit Tuesday for the construction of a major manufacturing facility in western Pennsylvania as he tries to reinvigorate supporters in the rust belt towns that sent him to the White House in 2016.
He used the official White House event as an opportunity to assail his would-be Democratic rivals, saying,"I don't think they give a damn about Western Pennsylvania, do you?" Trump's appeals to blue-collar workers helped him win Beaver County, where the plant is located, by more than 18 percentage points in 2016, only to have voters turn to Democrats in 2018's midterm elections. In one of a series of defeats that led to Republicans' loss of the House, voters sent Democrat Conor Lamb to Congress after the prosperity promised by Trump's tax cuts failed to materialize.
Story continuesThe region's natural gas deposits had been seen, for a time, as its new road to prosperity, with drilling in the Marcellus Shale reservoir transforming Pennsylvania into the nation's No. 2 natural gas state.
While many in town see the plant as an economic lifeline, other local residents, community organizations and public health advocates are planning a protest Tuesday to coincide with Trump's visit. Cheryl Johncox, a local organizer with the Sierra Club who lives in Ohio, said she expects several hundred people to attend to voice opposition to the plant, as well as demonstrate against Trump's immigration and gun policies.
A spokesman for the company, Ray Fisher, said Shell has"dedicated a great deal of time and resources" to ensure emissions from the plant meet or exceed local, state and federal requirements."As designed, the project will actually help improve the local air shed as it relates to ozone and fine particulates," he said.
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