Shale Gas Outrage: One Arrest

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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.

Update: Police arrested only one person, earlier we reported two arrests.
Philadelphia Police arrested two protesters this morning outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Conference attendees heading to the second day of Shale Gas Insight were greeted by a couple dozen protesters who were marching in a circle and chanting “ban fracking now.” Some were telling those entering the Convention Center that they “had blood on their hands.” Earlier, a few demonstrators had sat down in front of the doors, but were removed without arrest. Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College said he was there to tell industry representatives that fracking would cause cancer.  “Some reacted very violently,” said Liebling, “Some walked away and some engaged me in conversation and wanted to know what the science was.”
 

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