Could Smog Shroud the Marcellus Shale’s Natural Gas Boom?

http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/05/27/27greenwire-could-smog-shroud-the-marcellus-shales-natural-3397.html By GABRIEL NELSON of Greenwire Published: May 27, 2011 Since returning to private life, John Hanger, the former secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, has kept busy trying to douse fears that his state’s natural gas boom is contaminating drinking water. Hanger’s two-year tenure saw the Marcellus Shale, an underground rock formation… Read more

Dimock Municipal Water

http://www.newschannel34.com/news/local/story/Dimock-Municipal-Water/nQ3hhSe3YkOkC1NQvgqwgw.cspx Dimock Municipal Water Last Update: 9/17/2010 10:15 pm Pennsylvania’s top environmental regulator is proposing that residents in Dimock, PA who have had their drinking water wells contaminated by nearby hydro-fracking, be connected to municipal water supplies six miles away. John Hanger says the best and only solution is to connect residents to the water… Read more