Air Monitoring Group Says Gas Drilling is Toxic

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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.

October 25, 2011 | 12:36 PM

An environmental group based in California that promotes worldwide citizen air monitoring says a pilot project in New Mexico and Colorado shows high levels of air pollution near gas drilling sites. The Global Community Monitor has written to the EPA about the study, urging federal environmental regulators to strengthen air quality monitoring and regulations near gas drilling sites.
The group released its report back in July. The EPA has recently announced its intentions to update air quality rules. Global Community Monitor used residents to gather the data, which they say revealed high levels of carcinogens. The full report can be read here.