‘Legally Erroneous’: Wolf Administration Slams Anti-Fracking Pa. Grand Jury Report

After two years of investigating, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has reported the findings of a grand jury looking into whether shale gas producers had violated environmental protection laws. Gov. Tom Wolf’s Department of Environmental Protection, which oversees regulation of the industry, isn’t mincing words: “The report is legally erroneous, which compromises its conclusions.”* DEP

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That Fracking Childhood Cancer Scare: What We Aren’t Being Told

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … …  When the Guardian published a screed advancing a childhood cancer scare we weren’t told the full story about the Department of Health’s findings. Yesterday, I wrote about the Guardian‘s scandalous attempt to label Washington County as a “cancer alley.” I say scandalous because it was all husk and no

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Fake Fractivist News: The Bane of Progress and Sustainability

Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … …  The Guardian has published a piece of fake fractivist news intended to undermine the tremendous benefits the Shell cracker is bringing to Pennsylvania. The Guardian, a UK journal that has fallen on hard times and now depends on donations to survive, has published an article in its US edition

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