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Natural gas poised to be long-term energizer

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the last in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Renz No. 1 was enshrouded in doubt 20 years ago, when Range Resources was attempting to unleash natural gas from the well through hydraulic fracturing. Workers had ...

20 years on, fracking’s potential health impacts eyed

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Twenty years after the first gas well was fracked on the Renz farm in Mount Pleasant Township, Washington County, a body of evidence points to the possible ...

Marcellus has wealth of natural gas and more

UPDATE: This story was updated Oct. 10 to correct an error regarding the administration of royalties to landowners for natural gas drilling. Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Oil and natural gas ...

‘Shale Revolution’: A look back at 20 years of gas drilling in the region

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Mount Pleasant Township is among the most appropriately named municipalities in Southwestern Pennsylvania. It is pleasant, to be sure, a friendly, bucolic town of ...