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Reid Frazier

Reid R. Frazier is an energy reporter for The Allegheny Front, a Pittsburgh-based public media outlet covering the environment in Pennsylvania. His work has aired on NPR and Marketplace.
Email: reid.frazier@verizon.net
Twitter: @reidfrazier

Latest by Reid Frazier

A view of the Delaware River, Monroe County. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
January 23, 2020 | 11:39 PM

Trump administration rescinds protections for streams and wetlands

Industry sought rule change, but EPA's own scientific advisers said it had "no scientific justification"
By Reid Frazier
Stakes mark a construction site for the Mariner East 2 pipeline in Huntingdon County. DEP says Sunoco has violated a new agreement to protect water from the effects of drilling during pipeline construction.
January 17, 2020 | 4:18 PM

Sunoco fined $2 million for Mariner East spills in Raystown Lake

Company didn't initially report spills
By Reid Frazier
Johnie Perryman, of Clairton blames pollution from U.S. Steel's Clairton Coke Works for a heart condition.
January 13, 2020 | 9:34 AM

Clairton plaintiffs to decide on U.S. Steel settlement

By Reid Frazier
The coal plant in Shamokin Dam, Pa., is a local landmark that delivered electricity to this region for more than six decades. It closed in 2014. Next to it, a brand new natural gas power plant is under construction. The Sunbury Pipeline will feed Marcellus Shale gas into that plant.
January 10, 2020 | 5:00 AM

Study: Replacing coal plants with natural gas cut pollution, saved lives

Fracking pollution not included in study; could lessen health benefits, author says
By Reid Frazier
The site of an explosion of the Energy Transfer Partners Revolution Pipeline, Center Township, Beaver County.
January 3, 2020 | 5:45 PM

State levels record $30M fine against pipeline company responsible for Beaver County blast

Agreement lifts permit freeze for Energy Transfer's Mariner East
By Reid Frazier
Nurdles on Ferrycraigs Beach on the Firth of Forth, Scotland.
December 16, 2019 | 7:00 AM

Scotland is turning Pennsylvania shale gas into plastic. But what happens to it next?

Taxes and bans on single use plastics try to combat plastics in the oceans
By Reid Frazier
December 10, 2019 | 7:59 AM

What’s the future of global climate policies? The Allegheny Front talks with Obama’s chief climate negotiator

By Reid Frazier
FILE PHOTO: In an Aug, 26, 2007 file photo, Robert Murray, center, chief executive of Murray Energy Corp., smiles while talking to Dave Canning, left, and Mike Glassom, right, two miners in charge of drilling bore holes into the Crandall Canyon M before a news conference northwest of Huntington, Utah.
November 29, 2019 | 6:27 AM

After the Murray Energy bankruptcy, what’s the future of coal?

By Reid Frazier
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto.
November 25, 2019 | 6:00 AM

Pittsburgh mayor’s comments set off controversy over petrochemical industry’s impact to Western Pa.

By Reid Frazier
Canon-McMillan High School in Washington County.
November 22, 2019 | 5:25 PM

State to fund studies on fracking and cancers, other health effects

Two studies will take three years, $3.9 million
By Reid Frazier
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