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The Pulitzer Prize winner in nonfiction in 2019 this work explores what America’s freedom from foreign oil has cost three families who lived near a fracking site In Pennsylvania. Well written and carefully documented, it describes the environmental effects of fracking and the industry and money that comes to poor communities through leasing of drill sites.
A married pair of attorneys, the Smiths, take on the Range Company which is responsible for the fracking in this part of Pennsylvania. The Sm ...more
A married pair of attorneys, the Smiths, take on the Range Company which is responsible for the fracking in this part of Pennsylvania. The Sm ...more
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A reminder to all, our environment needs our care.
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Stacey Haney believed that by being a good person and working hard she could provide a better childhood for her two children than she had experienced growing up in Washington County, Pennsylvania. With some of her neighbors she signed a mineral lease for natural gas fracking for the extra money and she thought it would be good for the local economy and that would help the US to be energy independent. Her neighbor up the hill signed a lease for a drill pad and holding ponds—that became the proble
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