Manufacturers Increase Use of Natural Gas

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.

June 20, 2013 | 7:03 PM

Low natural gas prices are continuing to help boost the industrial sector, according to a report out Thursday by the Energy Information Administration. EIA says the use of natural gas by manufacturers rose three percent compared to the same six month period last year. As the gas industry pushes for export approvals, the manufacturing industry has pushed back, saying exports could create a rise in domestic gas prices that would hurt the recovering sector. A recent report commissioned by the Department of Energy predicts moderate price increases as a result of new exports.