New Website Helps Landowners With Fracking Questions

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.

September 21, 2011 | 1:45 PM

The Natural Resources Defense Council has just launched a new website devoted to helping residents living above shale deposits avoid adverse health effects from gas drilling. The site, entitled “Don’t Get Fracked!” includes questions on health, landowner rights, environmental impacts, pollution from spills and accidents, and state regulations.
The site is organized based on common questions such as “What can I do to keep my drinking water clean?” And “How much can I get paid if someone wants to drill on my land?” Much of the “Burning Questions” from readers and listeners we’re now tackling are answered on the NRDC’s handy, user friendly site.