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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.

September 7, 2011 | 2:49 PM

$frack protest$

Todd Vachon / WHYY/Newsworks.org

Hundreds of protestors rally outside the Marcellus Shale Conference in downtown Philadelphia Wednesday.org

Natural gas protestors marching down Broad Street in Center City Philadelphia dropped a banner at the corner of Locust street that read: “Arrest Corbett, Justice for Rivers, Fracking Kills”
According to one of the protest organizers, the banner quickly disappeared. We’ll keep you updated on its fate. Several hundred people are in town to protest gas drilling during the Marcellus Shale Conference. Former Governor Ed Rendell is expected to speak to conference goers this afternoon.