What NY Regulators Learned From Pennsylvania's Fracking Mishaps

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.

July 6, 2011 | 10:50 AM

When the New York Department of Environmental Conservation released their proposed fracking regulations last week, one document outlined how Pennsylvania provided an example of what not to do.
Click here to check out our annotated version of their fact sheet “What We Learned from Pennsylvania”
As we’ve noted, New York seems to be taking the lessons seriously. The proposed regulations on fracking there are far stricter than here in the Keystone State.