Jake Bolster | Inside Climate News

As secretary of environmental protection, Hess flipped the switch on Pennsylvania’s first commercial wind farm and helped avert a catastrophe at Quecreek mine. Now, his blog is essential reading for lawmakers, executives and activists on either side of the state’s fracking divide.

The well is a repurposed conventional well, which locals fear is at higher risk for leaks and material failures that could contaminate local drinking water.