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 ...

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The Environmental Protection Agency has weighed in on the fracking debate to say, for the first time, that the controversial practice may contribute to groundwater pollution. Fracking, or hydraulic ...

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 ...

This is the final “Hot Air” in a series about “fracking”—a process used to extract natural gas from shale—and its potential impact on Connecticut. The first column gave a general introduction to ...

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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. Credit: Scott Goldsmith/Inside Climate ...

This story was originally published by The Allegheny Front, a public radio program covering environmental issues in Western Pennsylvania. On a rainy morning, Mike Frederick showed off the Belle Vernon ...