Gas Drilling Debated on Radio Times

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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.

WHYY Radio Times host Marty Moss-Coane spoke with a drilling critic and a drilling advocate on Thursday morning. If you missed it live, you can listen here. Former DEP secretary under Gov. Rendell John Hanger talked about how drilling can be done safely. But writer and ecologist Sandra Steingraber says it’s an industry that can’t be regulated. This is never a conversation where the two opposing sides agree to disagree. But Marty steers these two well-informed guests through the often emotional dialogue, and has a real discussion on fracking, jobs, and the environmental consequences of drilling. Steingraber spoke at the Shale Gas Outrage rally on Thursday. John Hanger will be moderating a panel on natural gas powered cars at the Shale Gas Insight conference on Friday morning.

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