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 ...

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.

Increased natural gas prices triggered a jump in fracking activity in Pennsylvania in the second quarter of 2025, a new analysis by the Independent Fiscal Office shows. The number of new wells fracked ...

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 ...

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.

With Trump winning the election, many things about U.S. energy policy will change, and most likely fracking rates will increase. Fracking is a process that involves injecting high-pressure fluid, ...

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 ...