Danish Bajwa | The Allegheny Front

The state permit will allow PennEnergy Resources to extract 1.5 million gallons of water a day from Big Sewickley Creek. Biologists are worried this will harm the threatened redbelly dace.

Researchers investigated whether fossil fuel workers’ skill sets and geographic locations might match the required skills and locations of new, green energy jobs, like solar, wind and hydro-electricity production.

The first fracking waste injection well proposed in Fayette County was recently withdrawn after local opposition. But local residents worry there may be more to come.