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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.

November 2, 2011 | 3:16 PM

Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Michael Krancer tells CBS news that natural gas migration has always existed in Pennsylvania’s private drinking water wells. The Early Show also interviewed Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon, who says the drilling industry did not understand Pennsylvania’s unique geology at first, but have since made changes to well casings. The piece focuses on two Pennsylvania dairy farmers who now have leaser’s remorse. Watch the entire 8-minute segment after the jump.