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Concerned About How Fracking is Affecting Your Health? This Organization Can Help

Kara Holsopple·June 23, 2017

If you believe your health has been, or could be, impacted by industry pollution, one place to start is this organization. Staffed with doctors, nurses and public health scientists, the Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project helps people and communities protect themselves.

Environmental Justice Hazardous to Your Health Pollution

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Pennsylvania Confirms First Fracking-Related Earthquakes

Reid Frazier·February 18, 2017

Fracking-induced earthquakes have been detected in neighboring Ohio before, but the five tremors recorded in western Pennsylvania in 2016 are the state's first.

Energy

Citizen Complaints Over Drilling Have Soared During the Gas Boom

Kara Holsopple·February 1, 2017

According to a new report, Pennsylvanians have filed around 9,000 complaints over the past decade, mostly over water contamination. And that number has increased dramatically in the fracking era.

Energy Health Pollution

Wolf is Hoping Third Time’s the Charm on Gas Severance Tax

Katie Colaneri·January 13, 2017

Despite the idea falling flat with the Republican legislature each of the past two years, a tax on natural gas development is again on Tom Wolf's agenda. But does it have a shot at passing?

Energy Politics

VIDEO: Eminent Domain Meets Civil Disobedience in Pennsylvania’s Pipeline Wars

Ryan Loew·December 30, 2016

It was one of the more dramatic moments of the past year's growing battle over gas infrastructure: The day Elise Gerhart climbed a tree on her family's property to protest the clearing of a right-a-way for a new natural gas pipeline.

Energy Follow the Pipeline Video

Compressor Stations Open Up New Front in Fracking Debate

Joanna Richards·December 30, 2016

Residents who thought they lived far outside drilling country are increasingly discovering the boom in pipeline construction is bringing the fracking debate to their doorsteps.

Energy Follow the Pipeline Pollution

EPA Changes Tone, Says Fracking Can Impact Drinking Water

Susan Phillips·December 16, 2016

The EPA's landmark study of fracking's impact on drinking water has been embroiled in a seesaw battle of semantics. Here's what the agency is saying in its final report.

Energy Pollution Water

We Helped Residents Near a Fracking Site Test Their Air Quality. Here’s What We Found.

Natasha Khan·December 9, 2016

Our partners at PublicSource paid a visit to residents in Penn Township to put some numbers to how the community's first shale gas wells are impacting their air quality.

Pollution

Scientists Say EPA’s Last-Minute Changes to Fracking Report Downplayed Risks

Susan Phillips·December 2, 2016

After a landmark 2015 EPA report concluded that fracking posed no significant threat to drinking water supplies, many considered the issue settled. But new documents have emerged showing EPA downplayed the risks.

Energy

Group of Doctors Says It’s Time to Hit ‘Pause’ on Fracking

Reid Frazier·November 23, 2016

The Pennsylvania Medical Society—which represents a quarter of the state’s doctors—is reversing course and calling for a moratorium on new hydraulic fracturing operations.

Energy Health

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