Dept. of Interior Releases New Fracking Rules for Public Lands

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.

May 4, 2012 | 11:21 AM

The Obama Administration will require drilling companies to get prior approval before fracking on public lands, and reveal the chemicals used in fracking. The Dept. of Interior is releasing the proposed rules today. Initial press reports say they would require companies to disclose the chemicals after a well has been fracked. Environmentalists say those chemicals need to be revealed before any hydro-fracking takes place.