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EPA Finds Arsenic in One Dimock Well, But Resident Refuses Water Delivery
Susan Phillips / StateImpact PennsylvaniaAnti-drilling activists protest the end of free water deliveries in Dimock last year. The Environmental Protection Agency has released the results of 16...
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Fracking, The Hulk, And Mark Ruffalo
Getty ImagesHulk smash! Mark Ruffalo is one of hydraulic fracturing’s most high-profile opponents. He also plays the Incredible Hulk in the new Avengers film. You wouldn’t think these two worlds would...
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EPA Releases Final Set of Dimock Water Results
Susan Phillips / StateImpactPADimock residents Craig and Julie Sautner are suing Cabot Oil and Gas saying the company ruined their well water. The Environmental Protection Agency says results from 12...
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Krancer’s Top 5 EPA-Bashing Letters
DEP Secretary Michael Krancer takes notes during a May presentation Yesterday we told you about the blunt, confrontational letters Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Michael Krancer...
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The Energy Industry Strikes Back: New Movie Billed As Rebuttal To “Gasland”
Scott Detrow / StateImpact PennsylvaniaA Susquehanna County drilling rig The movie’s premise is simple: a Susquehanna County mom, concerned about the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, goes on a...
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EPA to Stop Water Deliveries to Dimock
Susan Phillips / StateImpact PennsylvaniaFilmmaker Josh Fox helps deliver fresh water to Dimock residents. Fox's documentary Gasland put the town's water problems in the national spotlight. The...
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Industry Issues Guidance on Methane Migration
Scott Detrow / StateImpact PennsylvaniaA Leroy Township, Bradford County resident lights a sample of methane gas on fire. The gas has been bubbling into puddles and creeks for more than two...
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Shale Country Restaurant Provides Haven from Polarized Gas Debate
Lindsay Lazarski / WHYYThe Summerhouse Grill in Montrose, Pa. When you drive north on route 29 in Susquehanna County, just before you hit the traffic light in downtown Montrose, sits a restaurant...
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Hollywood’s Matt Damon Takes on Fracking in ‘Promised Land’
Alberto E. Rodriquez / Getty ImagesActor John Krasinski, director Gus Van Sant and actor Matt Damon arrive at the premiere of "Promised Land" in Los Angeles, California. Fracking has made it to the big...
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Marcellus Production Tops Haynesville
Susan Phillips / StateImpact PennsylvaniaA Cabot Oil and Gas drill rig at night in Susquehanna County. Pipeline expansions serving the Marcellus Shale gas boom have helped boost production rates above...
View ArticleDEP Says Gas Drilling Did Not Contaminate Susquehanna County Well Water
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection says a 16-month long investigation concluded that gas drilling did not cause nearby residential water wells to contain high levels of methane in...
View ArticleCabot Gas Well Linked To Methane Leakage Will Be Plugged
A natural gas well in Dimock Township, Susquehanna County, that has been the subject of a state investigation into methane leakage will be plugged after the investigation is completed, according to The...
View ArticleLA Times: EPA Not in Agreement Over Dimock
Regional officials with the Environmental Protection Agency based in Philadelphia did not agree with EPA’s national office to close the investigation on water contamination in Dimock, according to a...
View ArticleNew Study Examines Link Between Fracking and Arsenic Contamination
ProPublica is highlighting a new study this week from researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington that found high levels of arsenic in private drinking wells near unconventional drilling sites...
View ArticleEnvironmentalists Lead Push for EPA to Reopen Dimock Water Study
Environmentalists from Pennsylvania will arrive in Washington, D.C. today with some 50,000 petitions calling for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reopen a high-profile water contamination...
View ArticlePhiladelphia, The Grassroots Anti-Fracking Movement’s New Old Front
Activists like Southwest Philadelphia resident Iris Bloom say they no longer have to drive several hours to rural Pennsylvania see or even hear the impact of fracking. Trains bringing oil from the...
View ArticleRobert F. Kennedy Jr. calls natural gas a “catastrophe”
As an environmental activist, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is one of the nation’s most vocal opponents of coal, but he thinks natural gas is just as bad. Speaking to a crowded auditorium today at Franklin and...
View ArticleBattleground Dimock property sold, deed bars owners from building home there
No one will ever live at 1101 Carter Road in Dimock again. The 3.6-acre property is one of 18 in the Susquehanna County village where state environmental regulators in 2009 traced methane contamination...
View ArticleTo clear the air, some Susquehanna County residents leave the fracking debate...
Two years ago, Victoria Switzer and her neighbors had stopped speaking. Switzer was one of the residents of Dimock who claimed natural gas drilling had ruined their water supplies. The small village in...
View ArticleGas driller Cabot wins Governor’s Community Impact Award
Governor Tom Corbett recognized Cabot Oil and Gas with a Community Impact Award at a ceremony today in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The award goes to companies that “[exemplify] the tenet of ‘doing well by...
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