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Lucy Perkins is a reporter/producer for 90.5 WESA’s Government and Accountability team. Before joining the 90.5 WESA newsroom, Lucy was an NPR producer in Washington, D.C., working on news programs like All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. She also helped produce the Hidden Brain podcast and NPR’s 2016 election night special coverage. Lucy joined NPR as a Kroc fellow after interning with Michigan Radio. Lucy is a proud Midwesterner, from the tip of Michigan’s pinky finger.

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Pa. Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman speaks to the press after Sheppard’s hearing.

March 18, 2021 | 7:43 AM

Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman negotiates difficult terrain on fracking issue

Fetterman’s advocacy won him the endorsement from the union representing Edgar Thomson workers. But environmental groups say candidates can’t make promises to the climate movement while also supporting fracking jobs.

By Lucy Perkins/WESA

Vice President Mike Pence speaks at a campaign event at a PennEnergy Resources site on Wednesday Sept. 9. 2020, in Freedom, Pa.

September 10, 2020 | 9:57 AM

At western Pa. gas drilling site, Pence talks jobs, repeats falsehoods on Biden’s fracking position

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden says he would oppose only new drilling on federal land. The Vice President touted the administration’s commitment to ‘American energy.’

By Lucy Perkins/WESA