Department says letter had 'nothing to do' with decision to withdraw

Studies will focus on childhood cancer, asthma and birth outcomes

“Hellbent,” a new short documentary, looks at Grant Township's fight over a proposed fracking waste injection well through the lens of a special resident — the eastern hellbender salamander.

The University of Pittsburgh and the state Department of Health are no longer participating in a public forum next week to discuss a series of state-funded studies about fracking and public health.

DEP’s proposed plan approval would allow for the temporary operation of the evaporator for 180 days to process 45,000 gallons of leachate, or contaminated fluid, per day

Residents who say a first well polluted groundwater oppose EPA permit

“The magnitude of the elevated risk that we observed was fairly striking."

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection says EQT confirmed that fracking liquids used at the Lumber Well were ‘communicating with’ — or getting into — the abandoned well.

Tuesday night's 12 to 3 vote surpassed the two-thirds majority needed to override the veto.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is investigating several complaints possibly related to an incident at a fracking site in Greene County in June.