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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 14, 2012 | 1:01 PM

Kim Paynter / WHYY

A drill rig rises above a farm in Susquehanna County, Pa.

StateImpact Pennsylvania’s Susan Phillips spoke to host Tracey Matisak on WHYY’s Radio Times this morning, along with ProPublica’s Abrahm Lustgarten. The discussion touched upon new air pollution regulations the EPA has created for natural gas drilling, and the Department of Interior’s proposed rules that would force companies to disclose the chemicals used in the fracking process and test well integrity. Phillips also discusses portions of the state’s new drilling law, Act 13. And Lustgarten talks about a new study that models how frack fluid could migrate to aquifers in a shorter amount of time than previously thought.