PA DEP Shaken Up Over Gas Drilling

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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 20, 2011 | 2:01 PM

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced a reorganization today that would elevate the status of the Bureau of Oil and Gas Management, which oversees Marcellus Shale drilling. In a press release, DEP Secretary Michael Krancer says the reorganization will “improve internal communications and coordination.”
Krancer also announced the creation of several new bureaus: the Bureau of Environmental Cleanup and Brownfields, the Bureau of Conservation and Reclamation, and the Office of Pollution Prevention and Energy Assistance. StateImpactPA’s Scott Detrow will have more on this story later this afternoon. To read the entire news release click here.