Environmentalists Sue Feds Over Fracking

Susan Phillips

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Susan Phillips tells stories about the consequences of political decisions on people's every day lives. She has worked as a reporter for WHYY since 2004. Susan's coverage of the 2008 Presidential election resulted in a story on the front page of the New York Times. In 2010 she traveled to Haiti to cover the earthquake. That same year she produced an award-winning series on Pennsylvania's natural gas rush called "The Shale Game." She received a 2013 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Journalism Award for her work covering natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania. She has also won several Edward R. Murrow awards for her work with StateImpact. In 2013/14 she spent a year at MIT as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow. She has also been a Metcalf Fellow, an MBL Logan Science Journalism Fellow and reported from Marrakech on the 2016 climate talks as an International Reporting Project Fellow. A graduate of Columbia School of Journalism, she earned her Bachelor's degree in International Relations from George Washington University.

August 4, 2011 | 2:00 PM

Three environmental groups filed suit today against the Delaware River Basin Commission over natural gas drilling regulations. The groups want the DRBC to conduct an environmental impact study of gas drilling within the Delaware River watershed. The Delaware Riverkeeper, the National Parks Conservation Association and the New York based Riverkeeper say that the DRBC and the Army Corps of Engineers failed to compy with the National Environmental Policy Act when they proposed gas drilling regulations before conducting the impact study.
The New York Attorney General also filed a similar suit in May. But this week the U.S. Attorney asked a federal judge in Brooklyn to dismiss it based on the “sovereign immunity” held by the federal government.