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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Flare from a well pad near a home in Southwestern Pennsylvania. A bill in the Pennsylvania Senate would withdraw funding from communities that try to restrict shale gas drilling within their borders.

For the past five years, the current fracking ban has safeguarded New York State residents from water and air pollution problems that plague residents near Pennsylvania fracking operations. But, the ...

Along with decades’ worth of coal mining pollution, Pa. must also contend with millions of tons of fracking waste.