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Chief Bob Rosatti of the Forbes Road Volunteer Fire Department stands alongside a marker for the Texas Eastern Transmission Pipeline, which exploded here in Salem Township in 2016.
March 7, 2019 | 8:13 AM

How do first responders know what to do in the event of a pipeline incident?

Question from Tim Potts, Dickinson Township
By Amy Sisk
Visitors tour a carbon capture and storage facility during its official opening at the Boundary Dam Power Station in Estevan, Saskatchewan in 2014. SaskPower said the $1.4-billion facility is to take carbon dioxide released by the Boundary Dam power plant near Estevan and release the gas deep underground using a steel pipeline for storage.
February 4, 2019 | 10:30 AM

Is carbon capture and storage a pipe dream? Who pays for research into those technologies?

Question from audience members at the StateImpact event “Can we get to a zero carbon future,” January 2019, Pittsburgh
By Amy Sisk
The Mariner East 1 natural gas liquids pipeline has been exposed in a creek near a housing development in Uwchlan Township, Chester County.
January 8, 2019 | 11:10 AM

Are pipeline companies required to remove lines that are out of service?

Question from Margaret Quinn, Uwchlan Township
By Jon Hurdle
Gas is not always available to people who live in areas that are being drilled to produce it.
January 3, 2019 | 9:18 AM

In Pa. counties where drilling is abundant, when can homeowners expect natural gas to be available? What is being done at the state level about this?

Question from: Joyce Marr, Towanda
By Amy Sisk
Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station near Delta, Pa.
August 7, 2018 | 9:53 AM

What is the percentage of nuclear energy used nationwide vs. in Pennsylvania?

Question from Rodney Jones of Caernarvon Township, Pa.
By Scott Blanchard
Protesters hold large black balloons symbolizing the methane pollution from Pennsylvania's oil and gas industry.
July 25, 2018 | 10:02 AM

With all the concerns about global warming, why is no one talking about the impact of animal agriculture on greenhouse gases?

Question from Christopher Hallock, Ardmore, Pa.
By Amy Sisk
This 2017 file photo shows a Chesapeake Energy natural gas well site in Bradford County, Pa.
July 25, 2018 | 9:57 AM

Which and how many of the jobs being created by the natural gas boom are going to Pennsylvanians vs. those from other states?

Question from: Jay Walker, Pittsburgh
By Marie Cusick
The EPA report looked into whether fracking affected the quality of drinking water sources such as the Susquehanna River
July 19, 2018 | 1:50 PM

Why is DEP review limited to public water supplies?

Question from Ralph Duquette, Campbelltown, Pa.
By Marie Cusick
In this photo from May 2018, Mariner East 2 pipeline construction crews work in the backyards of homes on Lisa Drive in West Whiteland Township, Chester County. The area has dealt with a number of sinkholes, including one on July 6, 2023. The problem led to Energy Transfer buying at least five homes along Lisa Drive after the aquifer there was damaged.
July 19, 2018 | 12:42 PM

How did the state declare Sunoco a public utility for the Mariner East project?

Question from Mike Walsh, Pennsylvania
By Susan Phillips
The before, during and after of the fracking fluid recycling process
July 19, 2018 | 11:35 AM

What is in fracking wastewater? How much water is taken out of the water cycle because it is poisoned by fracking?

Question from Jessica, West Chester, Pa.
By Marie Cusick
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