Colleen O’Neil, of the Mountain Watershed Association, fixes a crooked sign posted near a landfill's discharge pipe that flows into Sewickley Creek in Yukon, Pa. This article originally appeared on ...
Seventh in a series about the gas industry’s radioactive waste. When John Quigley became the secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection in 2015, he knew that he would be busy ...
A view of Big Sewickley Creek downstream from PennEnergy’s proposed water withdrawal site shows erosion control (center) and a portion of the project workspace and parking area (gravel and log on ...
The vote was met by cheers from many in the audience at the meeting who have been voicing their concerns about fracking, most notably the claim that recent research shows a correlation between ...
The Environmental Quality Board voted to delay a vote on whether to increase setback distances between fracking and drilling site from homes, schools, and water sources The Environmental Quality Board ...
Five years after a Pennsylvania grand jury made eight recommendations to protect public health and the environment from fracking, the state has largely failed to follow through, five environmental ...
File - Work continues at a shale gas well drilling site in St. Mary's, Pa., March 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File) This story is part of the WHYY News Climate Desk, bringing you news and ...
In 2013, when the Appalachian fracking rush was still in its early days, then President Barack Obama extolled its benefits in his State of the Union address. Not only had natural gas already helped to ...
Along with decades’ worth of coal mining pollution, Pa. must also contend with millions of tons of fracking waste.
A truck for Noble Environmental, the parent company of Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill in Belle Vernon, Pa., drives down a road on a rainy day. When John Quigley became the secretary of the ...
A natural gas company has surrendered its permits to pump water from a western Pennsylvania creek in a move welcomed by environmentalists fearful of rising industrial demand for surface water and the ...
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